Saturday, 24 September 2016

UK - Labour Party members re-elect Jeremy Corbyn as leader: euronews (in English)

Published on Sep 24, 2016
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 Pri…



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