A furious Labour MP is ready to sue Jeremy Corbyn over his campaign’s dossier listing 13 MPs who have been “abusive” to the leader and his allies.
Sources close to Corbyn have claimed the list was leaked by a junior press officer on the leadership campaign and was not meant for official use.
The evening was organised by Momentum Watford, a group independent of the Labour Party but it also works to promote the values that Mr Corbyn valued during his campaign, such as fair and honest debate.
It will profile both Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith, and will feature in depth exclusive interviews with various Labour MPs as well as former leader, Neil Kinnock.
Mr Corbyn said at least 90, to which Mr Smith declared that it was 106 seats.
After the release was issued last night, Mr Coyle described himself as “fuming” and hit out at the “desperate, trial by troll, victim-culture claims”.
Mr Corbyn said he wanted full access to the European single market, which was vital for British businesses and did not want a “hard border” between Britain and Europe. “As you know”, he said, “I never abuse anybody – tempting as it sometimes is”.
Corbyn replied: “There was information put out there, which is statements made by colleagues on the record and is all out there in the public domain”.
Islington North has existed since 1885, and Mr Corbyn told the Gazette this morning: “It’s very sad that Islington North, which has existed for a very long time, would disappear in name altogether”.
“He just gets stronger and stronger the more people attack him – even the Boundary Commission is trying to unseat him”. That release came from the campaign.
69-year-old British-Punjabi Labour party MP, Virendra Sharma, has represented the Ealing Southall area, with a large number of Punjabi origin electorate, for almost a decade.
He added: “Labour Party members have the right to be repented by someone they choose”.
Smith said that there was a danger of significant damage to Labour’s parliamentary party.
There are leading Conservatives among MPs looking for new seats in the reduced total, including Mr Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, who would have to contest a newly created constituency in west London.
The result of the party’s leadership contest will be announced at the Labour conference in Liverpool next week.
“I’m very keen on providing olive branches and indeed a number of olive branches have been offered to me”, he said.
Labour has vowed to fight the “unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable” changes proposed by the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales, arguing that the 2015 electoral rolls used to calculate the size of new constituencies were out of date, because they miss out a surge of two million extra voters who signed up to take part in the European Union referendum.