BRITAIN-POLITICS/ LABOUR CORBYN Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn expected to win party leadership vote

Record ID: 140089

  • Title: BRITAIN-POLITICS/ LABOUR CORBYN Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn expected to win party leadership vote
  • Date: 11th September 2015
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (RECENT) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF LABOUR LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE JEREMY CORBYN ADDRESSING CROWD OUTSIDE TOWN HALL CROWD APPLAUDING CORBYN ENTERING HALL AS CROWD APPLAUD CORBYN GREETING MEMBERS OF PANEL ON STAGE AND WAVING AT CROWD CORBYN APPROACHING LECTERN TO SPEAK AUDIENCE APPLAUDING VARIOUS OF CORBYN ADDRESSING AUDIENCE AUDIENCE LISTENING VARIOUS OF CORBYN SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) LABOUR LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE, JEREMY CORBYN, SAYING: "I think it would be quite nice if instead of people making rather shrill statements about our campaign and about the people that are joining in our campaign, young and old, they instead started addressing some of the policy issues we've put forward on environment, on housing, on health, on women, on environment, on economy on foreign policy. We're the ones putting forward ideas. I invite others to join in that debate." CORBYN SURROUNDED BY SUPPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) LABOUR LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE, JEREMY CORBYN, SAYING: "I'm trying to open up the democratic process and unleash that fantastic potential that's there. People have had enough of the politics of abuse and the politics of control. This is about the politics of democracy." GIRL POSING FOR PHOTO WITH CORBYN AND SAYING (English): "I'm 12, I'm a big fan." CORBYN SURROUNDED BY SUPPORTERS
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: Jeremy Corbyn is the favourite to be confirmed as the next leader of Britain's Labour Party on Saturday (September 12), when the results of an internal leadership election are announced at a conference centre in central London.
    Corbyn, a 66-year-old veteran parliamentarian from the left of the party, whose policies include renationalisation of the railways and increasing government spending, has reignited an ideological fight between the right and left of the party.
    In recent weeks he has emerged as the leading candidate in the opinion polls, after a dramatic rise from being an outsider who struggled to receive enough nominations.
    Corbyn's campaign has also tapped into a frustration with Britain's political classes, who are criticised by many voters for being too carefully polished and lacking in big ideas.
    He has sought to energise disillusioned voters with a promise of a radical alternative to centrist politics.
    But others insist the party can only hope to win in 2020 if it reclaims the centre ground from which it enjoyed its most prolific election success.
    Former prime minister Tony Blair, who won the 1997, 2001 and 2005 elections, has said Labour faces annihilation if it picks Corbyn.
    The prospect of a Corbyn victory has prompted warnings the party is repeating mistakes of the 1980s when a left-wing insurgency split Labour in two and set up a humiliating 1983 election defeat.
    Fears that the current leadership contest has been hijacked by hard-left sympathisers and rival political parties have led some Labour lawmakers to call for the vote to be suspended.
    The winner of the leadership vote will be announced on Saturday after a ballot of more than 600,000 voters, made up of party members, affiliated trade union members and other registered supporters.
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