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LABOUR MPs threatening to defy the whip to back air strikes in Syria do not have the support of most party members, a poll revealed yesterday.
Some 64 per cent of 2,500 supporters surveyed by Labour List still oppose military action in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
The result is a huge boost to leader Jeremy Corbyn as he seeks to quell a rebellion of up to 60 by Blairite hawks.
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’
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare