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JEREMY CORBYN vowed to keep calm and carry on as Labour leader yesterday as he made a direct appeal for party unity in a video message to members.
And Angela Eagle, the most senior member to resign from the shadow cabinet, ignored pleas from trade unions for peace talks and insisted she would challenge Mr Corbyn in a leadership contest if he doesn’t quit.
“There are many people, MPs, party members up and down the country, asking me to resolve the impasse and I will if something isn’t done soon,” she told Sky News, claiming that she has “the support to run.”
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
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external