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Angela Eagle to announce Labour party leadership bid on Monday
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 09, 2016 09:51am |
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| Author | Daniel Boffey |
| News Date | Saturday, July 9, 2016 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Angela Eagle is to announce a formal challenge against Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour party on Monday, after the deputy leader, Tom Watson, announced that union-backed peace talks over a compromise had collapsed.
Watson claimed in a statement that Corbyn had torpedoed any hope of talks progressing by publicly declaring his intention to stay on as leader “come what may”.
In a statement released on Saturday morning, Watson said that with “regret and profound sadness” he had concluded that there was “little to be achieved” in continuing discussions between the unions, who are largely backing Corbyn, and key members of the parliamentary party, including chief whip Rosie Winterton and parliamentary party chair John Cryer.
It is understood that Watson had been privately asking the two key contenders for the leadership, Eagle and Owen Smith, to hold back from launching their campaigns to allow further time for an agreement with Corbyn to be made. |
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