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Smith retreats to ‘avoid another Labour split’
Coup plot resigner wants to return focus to ‘our true enemy – the Tories’
THE COUP against Jeremy Corbyn stalled yesterday as Owen Smith stepped back from a leadership challenge.
The former shadow work and pensions secretary has amassed the necessary support among MPs to call a leadership poll — just nine months after Mr Corbyn was elected with 60 per cent support.
But Mr Smith has called on mutinous colleagues to give union-led peace talks “every chance to succeed” amid fears Labour is heading towards a repeat of the 1981 split over Europe that led to the creation of the SDP.
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