UK’s Labour Party at war over who can vote in leader race

Now, the Labour masses are revolting and attempts to stop numerous new arrivals from voting in the latest leadership contest have failed after a High Court judge ruled that five Labour members who had claimed they had been disenfranchised in the leadership contest had “wholly succeeded” in establishing their right to vote.

Mr Smith said: “It’s a great honour to receive GMB’s nomination to be the next leader of the Labour Party after a consultation with its members”.

The meeting of the Islington North Constituency Labour Party was held to decide which candidate the local party would back – Corbyn or Smith.

The riposte from those moderates to Rotheram would be that the membership has more and more people in it who want to change Labour, rather than sharing its aims and values as they stand on the membership card now.

Party general-secretary Iain McNicol asked the Court of Appeal on Thursday to overturn the judgment, which affects nearly 130,000 people – many of them thought to support Corbyn. In their arrogance they appear oblivious to the fact that more than 515,000 people are now members of the party.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Post exclusively, Mr Smith: “I’ve said we should extend the contest by a couple of weeks in light of the High Court ruling in order to make sure that’s clear”.

The latest row follows some important victories for Corbyn, who is not only on course to win the leadership contest but is tightening his grip on Labour’s decision-making apparatus.

“That’s why my choice for Labour leader is Owen Smith”. A majority of them are expected to support Mr Corbyn.

Corbyn’s rally comes ahead of the Labour leadership election, with the results scheduled to be announced on September 24th.

“During the referendum you seemed to have undergone a Damascene conversion”, said Mr Smith.

A senior Labour source said: “If Labour loses the appeal, the position of Iain McNicol becomes untenable. I was proud to have played my own part in help and support as I’m sure every one of you here was as well”.

Mr Coleman urged attendees at the meeting to watch the fly-on-the-wall Vice News documentary, Corbyn The Outsider, in order to understand the chaos in Mr Corbyn’s camp.

“There are Trots that have come back to the party, and they certainly don’t have the best interests of the Labour Party at heart”, Watson said in an interview with the Guardian newspaper.

He said: “I’ve not seen it”.

More than 1,500 people went to College Green last night to meet the current Labour leader.

“Two of the more than 20 speakers raised the issue of antisemitism and I, as chair, felt the need to remind both of them of the sensitivity of this subject and the need to take care to choose their words carefully”.

Kate Green MP warned that with ballot papers arriving within days, members will not have time to “gather the information they will wish to have about the candidates before they cast their vote”.