UK: Labour Party members re-elect Jeremy Corbyn as leader
- 8 years ago
Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected leader of the UK opposition Labour Party.
Corbyn, the incumbent party leader, won 61.8% of the just over 506,000 Labour Party members who voted in the leadership contest.
His only challenger was Owen Smith.
Corbyn’s grass-roots supporters had called the challenge to his position a “coup” led by Labour MPs, many of whom see Corbyn as too left-wing and unelectable.
Corbyn, 67, has long sat on the left of the party, voting against centrists such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and lobbying with others to restore more socialist policies. A peace campaigner, he is opposed to Britain having nuclear weapons.
Fellow lawmakers criticised him for a lack of leadership and what they said a lukewarm campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, which he wants to reform. In late June, 172 of his colleagues passed a motion of no confidence.
With Reuters
Corbyn, the incumbent party leader, won 61.8% of the just over 506,000 Labour Party members who voted in the leadership contest.
His only challenger was Owen Smith.
Corbyn’s grass-roots supporters had called the challenge to his position a “coup” led by Labour MPs, many of whom see Corbyn as too left-wing and unelectable.
Corbyn, 67, has long sat on the left of the party, voting against centrists such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and lobbying with others to restore more socialist policies. A peace campaigner, he is opposed to Britain having nuclear weapons.
Fellow lawmakers criticised him for a lack of leadership and what they said a lukewarm campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, which he wants to reform. In late June, 172 of his colleagues passed a motion of no confidence.
With Reuters