Tony Blair Warns Labour Party Faces ‘Annihilation’ if Corbyn Elected Leader

Mr Burnham has the support of the Welsh government’s Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths, who will chair his question-and-answer session with party members in Wrexham on Sunday.

Jeremy Corbyn’s “hard left” campaign to be Labour leader has been rejected by former first minister Rhodri Morgan as “nothing to do” with his own “clear red water” policies for Wales.

As the polls stand Mr Corbyn has enough support to win without the need to count second preferences – with Andy Burnham attracting 21 per cent of the vote, Yvette Cooper with 18 per cent and Liz Kendall polling only eight per cent. It was a poor election result but the Basingstoke party has seen a massive influx of new members.

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.

The Leicester South Constituency Labour Party is backing Mr Corbyn.

And I think that’s even more worrying because we’d be taking this country into a very risky terrain.

The contest has been hit by claims that members of far-left groups and Conservatives are among around 190,000 to have signed up since the party’s general election defeat in May.

It is the beginning of the end of the Labour leadership race as the party sends out its ballot papers today (14 August).

Despite the radical nature of Mr Corbyn’s policies, all of Labour’s deputy leadership candidates said this weekend that they would be prepared to work with him.

Answering why he would not be voting for Mr Corbyn, who visited Ebbw Vale as part of his leadership campaign earlier this week, he said: “It’s because Labour is a national political party, not a pressure group”.

But the only Welsh MP to nominate him – Huw Irranca-Davies – said he only did so to ensure a broad range of candidates, and that he intended to vote for Ms Cooper.

“I think it is a positive thing that there is a vibrant contest and that there are a wide number of people from different walks of life able to have a say”.

She has become the first of the other contenders to tackle the Corbyn surge and cast doubt on polls which have given the veteran Islington North MP as much as a 32-point lead.

‘Am I going to traipse through the lobby for some insane left-wing policies for Corbyn when he has had no discipline?