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He set out plans to stop the renewal of private operators’ franchises as passengers were told that low inflation would keep fare rises down next year. I think I have met some of them but they all sort of just float around and seem like they could have podded off of him...

Corbyn was a supporter of the Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chávez and paid tribute to his “massive contributions” to his country “and the very wide world” in a tweet after Chávez’s death in 2013.

Dissecting Mr Corbyn’s agenda including his “really bad economics” and claiming a victory for him would split the party, she added that electing Labour’s first woman leader and Prime Minister was much more “radical” than yet again having white...

He made the remarks in an interview last summer with the Moscow-funded news channel Russian Federation Today.

Mr Corbyn is launching his plan in Glasgow and a copy will be sent to all Labour members in a bid to secure their vote as the party sends out the first ballot papers.

(JNS.org) The U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper has sounded the alarm over the impending election of Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn as the next head of the Labour Party and British opposition leader, asking Corbyn to prove he is not “an enemy of Britain’s...

Opinion polls suggest Ms Cooper is locked in a battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, with Liz Kendall trailing in fourth place.

A string of warnings that a Corbyn victory could split the party or turn it into a mere pressure group have emerged in recent days from former Labour politicians including Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock, Jack Straw, Gordon Brown, and – mostly recently – David Miliband.

Prominent anti-Israel activists in the UK are slamming the Jewish Chronicle newspaper for its coverage of links between Labour party primary candidate Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitic individuals and groups.

What is more distressing is the unclear nature of whether these complaints are legitimate – or represent a last-ditch attempt to stop the left-winger Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader.

Mr Corbyn is now the favourite to win from Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, with Ms Kendall consistently coming in fourth place in polls.

Yvette Cooper is making a similar intervention this morning, finally turning on Corbyn, which is admirable but something the party’s other leadership contenders should all have done from the very beginning.

“There are many views on Europe in the Labour Party and I wouldn’t want to suppress any of those views”.

Mr Corbyn’s rivals have voiced concern over the motives of tens of thousands of people who rushed to join Labour as full members or £3 supporters to get a vote in the leadership contest.

Andy Burnham used a keynote speech in Manchester today to try to woo the left-wing supporters of Labour-leadership race favourite Jeremy Corbyn.