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“Jeremy Corbyn may be able to offer that, and it is important that all of us in the Labour Party give him and his team the chance to prove themselves“.

Jeremy Corbyn was yesterday facing the threat of Labour defections after days of turmoil over his leadership.

Mr Corbyn said that while policy was “developing” he could not foresee a situation where Labour would campaign for a “Brexit” under his leadership.

Corbyn was cheered by Labour MPs as he rose to his feet.

After the chaos of the past four days, Jeremy Corbyn’s first Prime Minister’s Questions as leader of the opposition looked set to demonstrate a fractured Labour party in disarray.

The Labour leader said he would repeal the trade union reform bill the Conservatives have brought before parliament if he was elected Prime Minister. “The Rugby World Cup not only means that Wales will lift the Webb Ellis trophy, but it also gives us a great opportunity to...

She may have lost out in the vote to represent Labour in the forthcoming London Mayoral elections, but Diane Abbott has regained a place in the shadow cabinet after left wing politician Jeremy Corbyn’s shock leadership win.

Some MPs have also expressed concern about his position on Europe amid uncertainty about whether he would countenance campaigning to leave the European Union in a referendum due to happen before 2017.

Hunt, who had wanted to stand in the leadership contest but was unable to muster the support among fellow MPs, criticises the way party modernisers conducted their campaign on behalf of their favoured candidate, Liz Kendall. I seriously doubt Corbyn is that leader. One of the...

“If we have got to a point now where the Labour Party says it doesn’t want to listen to him then I would think we have lost the plot”, he told the Murnaghan show on Sky News. They have to go out and pretend to care about ordinary people while pushing an agenda...

The charge against the Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn is not that he is anti semitic.

But as he denied meeting Mr Jahjah in a lunchtime interview, a furious Mr Corbyn insisted he had spent his life fighting all forms of racism and said suggestions he was anti-Semitic were “beyond appalling”.

Mr Hunt is a supporter of Liz Kendall, seen as the most Blairite of the candidates – and the one who is lagging in the race, according to pollsters and bookies.

Ms Cooper is locked in a bitter battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, while the other contender Liz Kendall lags behind in fourth place. We need people dedicated to their brief who are able to work co-operatively with the party to set out a shared...

London mayoral hopeful Diane Abbott, one of Mr Corbyn’s most prominent supporters, said accusations about the frontrunner’s associations with extremists such as Abou Jahjah and Palestinian militant group Hamas had surfaced because opponents are terrified he will take...