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JEREMY CORBYN will automatically be on the ballot paper in the event of a leadership challenge, the Labour leader’s spokesman said yesterday.
The senior Labour official said he believes the party’s rules state the leader would not need nominations from MPs to stand.
“Our view on that is the leader of the party is already on the ballot paper if there’s an election,” he told journalists in Parliament. It deals a blow to the rump of right-wing Labour MPs plotting a leadership challenge if Labour performs badly in May’s local elections.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
