Rolling coverage of the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election
Corbyn re-elected Labour leader - Results in full
Election results - Analysis
Corbyn says ‘lots of MPs’ now willing to back him
Afternoon summary
5.58pm BST
Elections are passionate and partisan affairs things are often said in the heat of the debate on all sides that we later regret.
But always remember in our party, we have much more in common than that which divides us.
What happens now? Understand pressure on some Labour MPs not to be 'scabs' & enter Corbyn's shadow cabinet without/ before elections.
Labour MPs being told by their colleagues that they won't get votes in future shad cab elections if they do go into the frontbench now.
Under my leadership, the Labour party has committed to consulting and working with women’s and other relevant organisations on how to strengthen the law and its implementation to tackle sexual harassment and threats online and increase organisations’ responsibility towards promoting safe and respectful ‘community standards’ online
‘Reclaim the Internet’ which many colleagues here today, including Jess Philips have been supporting brings together women’s campaigns, think tanks, trade unions and media platforms to challenge the abuse that women face online.
5.26pm BST
Nia Griffith, who resigned as shadow Welsh secretary over the summer, has said she is willing to serve under Jeremy Corbyn again. The news has been posted on Twitter by Paul Flynn, who replaced her as shadow Welsh secretary and who seems very happy for her to come back. Flynn, a reluctant shadow cabinet appointee, is also doubling up as shadow leader of the Commons.
Great! Nia Griffith told Newyddion she is willing to serve on Corbyn Frontbench. Courageous to resign:courageous to return. Llongyfarchiadau
Nia Griffith, former Shadow Welsh Secretary, agrees to serve under a re-elected Corbyn. Others to follow? https://t.co/ftJnZkT6cl
5.19pm BST
Tom Baldwin, communications director for Ed Miliband when Miliband was leader, and an opponent of Jeremy Corbyn’s, has written an article for the Guardian setting out what he thinks MPs should do to remove Corbyn. Here is an extract.
The best – perhaps only – way to remove Corbyn is by fighting on the same set of rules he has exploited so successfully. That means signing up more members than Momentum. Those who want the chance to be leader in the future need to earn it by beginning a national campaign to sign up half a million mainstream Labour members over the next two years.
It is no small task. But I do not understand how almost an entire generation of mainstream Labour MPs can throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of trying to recruit more members than a far-left fringe that has just emerged from the woods. Presumably, they went into politics because they felt they had some skill in winning support. Now is the time they need to demonstrate such talents by expanding, not shrinking, the selectorate.
5.01pm BST
Here is the full text of Angela Rayner, the shadow women and equality minister’s, speech to the women’s conference. Her mother was in the audience as she spoke, and in a very personal passage Rayner explained that her mother had been an inspiration to her.
My mum was born on the largest council estate in Europe and was one of twelve children. They lived in poverty. And when I say poverty I mean poverty in every sense.
She cannot to this day read or write and was bullied at school.
Well done @AngelaRayner at Labour's National Women's Conference in Liverpool for an inspiring speech - "Bring back our Labour family"! pic.twitter.com/cFhKxeP6E8
4.51pm BST
YouGov has published its own blog about its “exit poll” - its poll of people eligible to vote in the Labour leadership conducted this week after almost everyone had voted.
This chart shows Jeremy Corbyn’s lead amongst particular groups of voters.
Corbyn wins among 17 of 20 demographic categories in our breakdown of Labour members' leadership votes https://t.co/5W08qxcckA pic.twitter.com/ignLpn1pRT
4.43pm BST
Momentum has announced today a partnership with Disabled People Against the Cuts. It says it wants to put disabled people’s rights and accessibility and inclusion “at the heart of the labour movement”. In a statement it said:
Groups such as Disabled People Against the Cuts, who were instrumental in opposing the cuts to Personal Independence Payments, will be invited to advise on access requirements so that events and activities are inclusive for those with disabilities. Alongside Momentum Kids, this initiative is part of Momentum’s drive to make politics more inclusive and participatory.
Over the coming months, Momentum hopes to develop further links with disabled activists and to assist in campaigning against devastating cuts.
4.40pm BST
Here are some pictures from today’s conference events.
4.17pm BST
This is from Sky’s Faisal Islam.
Losing Labour candidate @owensmith2016 got more votes (193k) than total membership of any other political party pic.twitter.com/sukK1d6llu
4.06pm BST
A Labour peer is set to resign in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as party leader, the Press Association reports.
Lord Mitchell, who is Jewish, said that he would quit over the leader’s handling of the anti-semitism row.
The businessman was made a Labour peer in 2000 and served as a frontbencher under Ed Miliband.
3.55pm BST
Jeremy Corbyn has given an interview to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. Here are the key points.
I think you will see a sense of unity around the party. I’ve already had messages from ... lots of people who want to get on board and get out there and do the campaigning. And that’s just what we are going to be doing.
There is a need to strengthen the democracy within our party. We are a party of more than half a million members, and so there has to be a discussion about democracy in the party. And that includes the proposal for elections to the shadow cabinet. That is absolutely in the mix. That is what we are discussing at the moment with colleagues in parliament, with the parliamentary committee and with many others on the national executive committee. So I think you will see a lot of changes over the next few weeks.
It is not my decision on who is selected for a place or not. I am not a leader who imposes things on constituencies. The new boundaries will probably come in in 2018 ... Obviously all sitting MPs go automatically on the the shortlist. And I hope the local parties will recognise that and support them.
3.35pm BST
This is from the Financial Times’ Jim Pickard.
Statistic of the day is that Owen Smith got more votes than Ed Miliband did six years ago.
Smith, 2016: 193k
Miliband, 2010: 175k
3.30pm BST
Further to his earlier tweet (see 3pm) ITV’s Chris Ship has posted another one saying that, when Jeremy Corbyn talked about a shadow cabinet reshuffle happening “imminently”, he did not quite mean imminently.
Been given some guidance on what Jeremy Corbyn meant by 'imminent' positions to Shad Cabinet in my interview. He meant after #labconf16
3.27pm BST
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3.09pm BST
Patrick McLoughlin, the Conservative party chairman, was on Sky News earlier talking about Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election. Asked if he thought this result increased the chances of the Tories winning the next election, he replied:
The next election is three and a half years away, and we are going to work hard to show that we deserve to win that next election. I take nothing for granted as far as elections are concerned. The government does not take elections for granted ... I hope that by 2020 we’ve shown the British people that we deserve the chance to carry on in government.
3.00pm BST
We could be getting a shadow cabinet reshuffle imminently. This is from ITV’s Chris Ship.
Jeremy Corbyn tells me there will be new Shadow Cabinet positions announced 'imminently' #LabourLeadership
2.53pm BST
Jeremy Corbyn has been speaking to Sky News. Sky’s Faisal Islam thinks Corbyn is engaged in a game of brinkmanship with his Labour critics who are demanding shadow cabinet elections.
Corbyn to @SkyNews "my mandate has been renewed with a big increase, considerably more than a year ago. I think we should recognise that".
Re staying on till 2020 election- JC: "of course. We're winning elections around country" refers to council by election wins vs Cons and SNP
There's a game of chicken going on re NEC tonight - potential shadow cabinet returnees waiting for leadership to compromise on elections...
2.49pm BST
The Socialist party, the successor organisation to Militant, has also put out a statement welcoming Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election. It said:
Despite the best efforts of the Blairites, the right-wing media, and behind them the capitalist establishment, Jeremy Corbyn now has a bigger mandate than ever. The Blairites are reeling in the face of the mass anti-austerity surge that has defeated them. This doesn’t mean, however, that they are reconciled to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership or to the prospect of Labour becoming an anti-austerity party. The issue of what needs to be done to consolidate Jeremy Corbyn’s victory – by really transforming Labour into an anti-austerity, socialist, working-class mass movement – is the critical question facing socialists in Britain today.
2.48pm BST
Many of the 60-odd Labour frontbenchers who resigned over the summer seem determined to remain on the back benches. Speaking to Sky News, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said that although he and Jeremy Corbyn would like them to return to the front bench, they were also happy for the dissidents carry on opposing the Tories as backbenchers.
We’ve also said to them, if you feel you don’t want to serve on the front bench, choose a policy area and you lead on it and that’s what Yvette [Cooper] has done. She chose refugees and she’s done a brilliant job. Caroline Flint did it on tax evasion, tax avoidance – she’s taken that and again, even secured amendments to the finance bill.
2.40pm BST
The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn. This is from Dave Nellist, the former Labour MP who is TUSC’s national chair.
Jeremy’s decisive victory over a concerted effort to take Labour back to the Blair days will give heart to socialists outside the Labour party, too.
But unfortunately it’s not over yet. It’s clear to me that the right are not going to give up. And neither should the left.
2.36pm BST
I’ve just bumped into Paul Mason, the journalist and broadcaster who is one of Jeremy Corbyn’s strongest media supporters, and he said the left of Labour would defend itself against any form of “coup 2.0”. He warned that shadow cabinet elections would inevitably result in a number of people who disagree with Corbyn being elected.
If the PLP impose a shadow cabinet on Corbyn, the membership will not accept it.
If we end up with something which is effectively coup 2.0, then even though there is not a formal mechanism for deselecting MPs, we would expect the left to start naming politicians.
2.30pm BST
Seema Malhotra, who resigned as shadow chief secretary to the Treasury in the summer, told Sky News that she would be “open to a discussion” about returning to the front bench. But MPs could play an important role from the backbenches too, she said.
2.28pm BST
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has posted this tweet flagging up an interview he gave to the Daily Mirror recently as a guide to what might happen next.
Very pleased with today's result. On Thursday I sat down with the Daily Mirror to talk about what comes next https://t.co/bNUIpaIfWn
Mr McDonnell is upbeat about being able to assemble a frontbench team and is planning a “tea offensive” to persuade the rebels to come back.
A “large proportion” of the MPs who rebelled will serve in some form, he predicted.
2.15pm BST
In her analysis (see 1.32pm) my colleague Anushka Asthana mentioned Ian Warren’s YouGov “exit poll” of the Labour selectorate.
Warren has now posted the results in full on his website. And here is an extract from his blog about them.
Owen Smith won Scotland with 58% of the vote and came close to defeating Mr Corbyn in London. However Mr Corbyn performed extremely strongly in the rest of the country with big margins of victory in the North, Midlands, Wales and the rest of the South.
The exit poll has Owen Smith winning among 18 to 24 year olds, although they account for 11% of the selectorate. Mr Corbyn won with big margins among 25 to 39 year olds (63:36) 40 to 50 year olds (62:37). Together these ‘working-age’ groups account for 62% of the selectorate ...
1.48pm BST
Patrick McLoughlin, the Conservative party chairman, has issued a statement responding to Jeremy Corbyn’s election. The Labour party has just re-elected a leader who saw 75% of his MPs vote against him in a no confidence motion, and so McLoughlin’s attack line is predictable. McLoughlin said:
Labour are too divided, distracted and incompetent to build a country that works for everyone. 172 Labour MPs don’t think Jeremy Corbyn can lead the Labour party - so how can he lead the country?
Instead of learning lessons from the past, they have engaged in a bitter power struggle that will continue even after they’ve picked a leader.
MPs could say they’re overturning the vote of no confidence for two reasons: firstly, to accept the democratic decision of the membership, but secondly, in exchange for concessions. These concessions would be conciliation with Corbyn opponents (making a distinction between the irreconcilables from the critics), as well as a strategy for winning a general election (or, frankly, avoiding a disastrous rout). Mandatory reselection should continue to be opposed by the leadership (it is unlikely to be endorsed by the NEC, in any case) and the existing arrangements for selections after the boundary changes should be maintained. Some believe that this is waving a white flag of surrender. But if MPs believe that they will be deselected — which they may think is inevitable however they behave — it won’t force them into line: they will simply have no incentive whatsoever to cooperate.
1.32pm BST
Here is my colleague Anushka Asthana’s analysis of the election result.
Related: Corbyn leadership win shows Labour is now a changed party
One other piece of evidence that will be raked over by the “modernisers” who wanted to topple Corbyn is a Yougov “exit poll” of the election, commissioned by the psephologist Ian Warren.
The poll predicted that Corbyn would win by 59% - reasonably close, although slightly below Corbyn’s actual result. It also suggested that the leader performed particularly well with female members – securing seven out of 10 of their votes – and hefty support among voters aged 25 to 50.
1.28pm BST
The Socialist Workers party has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election. This is from Amy Leather, its joint secretary.
Jeremy Corbyn’s victory is a boost to everyone who hates austerity and racism. Corbyn’s rallies have seen large and enthusiastic audiences come to cheer a socialist message. Those people must become a movement in the streets and the workplaces that can block and then remove this Tory government.”
The SWP is not part of the Labour party. But next Sunday, alongside Labour members, we will be part of the demonstration at the Conservative conference in Birmingham. On Saturday 8 October we will join the Stand Up To Racism conference which is dedicated to building a mass anti-racist movement in Britain—and where Jeremy Corbyn will be speaking.”
1.20pm BST
Owen Smith has just given a pooled broadcast interview in which he said he stands by his intention not to rejoin the shadow cabinet.
1.19pm BST
Here is some more union reaction to Jeremy Corbyn’s victory.
Basically, everyone is calling for unity.
It’s time for the Labour party to unite and get on with holding this government to account, standing up for working people and winning their support rather than continually talking to ourselves about ourselves and banging on about our internal differences.
Jeremy’s re-election with an increased share of the vote must surely end all speculation about his leadership and the whole of the Labour movement now has a responsibility to train their fire unremittingly on this Tory government’s discredited austerity policies.
That is a mandate for policies which support trade union rights, public services and a radical shift in political direction in favour of ordinary working people.
Now that the election is over, the leader must heal the rifts and work to ensure that Labour is a strong and credible opposition in Parliament.
It is now time for everyone – especially those in the parliamentary Labour party who have spent so much of the last year undermining Jeremy – to get behind him, to turn their fire on the Tories, and to get ready for a general election which could be just around the corner.
1.14pm BST
My colleague Rowena Mason was at the Momentum The World Transformed conference when the news of Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election was announced. She has filed an account. Here is how it starts.
The room in Liverpool erupted in screams, cheers and dancing as Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of the Labour party by a larger margin than last year.
This was not the scene of the formal announcement, but about 15 minutes down the road, where 750 of the leader’s staunch supporters gathered in a community space called Black-E.
Related: Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn wins convincing victory over Owen Smith
1.05pm BST
Here is Dave Prentis, the Unison general secretary, on Jeremy Corbyn’s victory.
Jeremy Corbyn has won because he’s captured the imagination of party members. People are inspired by his promises to end austerity, fix our broken public services and build a different kind of economy.
But the scale of the political challenge facing Labour cannot be ignored. The party already faced an uphill battle to convince the British people before this unhelpful leadership contest.
1.03pm BST
Len McCluskey, general secretary of the pro-Corbyn Unite union and key Jeremy Corbyn supporter, said Labour MPs should now unite behind Corbyn and abandon “sniping, plotting and corridor coups”. He said:
This election contest was needless, a distraction that the Labour party and its members could have done without. But after a summer of unrest we can now look forward to the party taking on this Conservative government, exposing its divisive and elitist policies.
We urge Labour MPs to heed the signal sent by the members - twice now in one year - about the direction they want for the party. This includes respecting and supporting the elected leader and his team; no more sniping, plotting and corridor coups.
12.59pm BST
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor and Jeremy Corbyn’s close ally, said that Corbyn’s victory was “extraordinary” in the circumstances.
Jeremy has got an increased mandate, extraordinary really. It was tough because we had 130,000 members ruled out and that would have added another five or seven or eight per cent to his vote I think. But, nevertheless, he still got 61.8%.
I think the spirit now at the end of this election campaign is one of coming together.
12.52pm BST
Here are the key points from the headline voting figures. (A more detailed set of figures may be released later.)
12.34pm BST
Owen Smith has issued a statement about the result. I can’t find it on the web, so here it is in full.
I want to congratulate Jeremy Corbyn on his clear win in this leadership contest. There is no doubt that the Labour party has changed under his leadership, he has mobilised huge numbers of people over the last 12 months, many of whom are here at Conference in Liverpool, and he deserves the credit for that, and for winning this contest so decisively.
I am humbled by the more than 193,000 members, supporters and trade union members who have put their faith in me and I want to say a big thank you to them. It has been a privilege to meet so many of you, who have given so much of your lives to Labour, and I promise to continue to work for what we all believe in. It has been a huge honour for me to stand for leader of our great party and I am also deeply grateful to my Parliamentary colleagues for nominating me.
12.16pm BST
And here are the percentages.
Members
12.08pm BST
And here are the voting figures in detail.
How members voted
12.05pm BST
Here are more of the election statistics.
Eligible votes - 654,006
11.59am BST
Corbyn says Theresa May’s government is not a new government; it is a new version of David Cameron’s rightwing government.
He says school segregation is wrong.
11.56am BST
Corbyn says sometimes in election campaigns things are said that people regret.
But there is more that they have in common than that divides them, he says.
11.54am BST
Jeremy Corbyn is speaking now.
He thanks Lewis, and thanks all his supporters. They have given him their trust.
Because we are part of the same Labour family - and that is how it is going to continue to be.
11.51am BST
Paddy Lillis, the chair of the NEC, is announcing the results.
Corbyn - 313,209 (61.8%)
11.48am BST
Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith are taking the stage.
11.44am BST
The former Labour and then Respect MP George Galloway has already congratulated Jeremy Corbyn.
Congratulations JC on a stunning victory. Now walk across the Mersey! #JerryAcrosstheMersey pic.twitter.com/UJKwd9uU78
11.41am BST
This is from Sky’s Darren McCaffrey.
They maybe the largest political party in Europe but the hall isn't exactly packed for #LabourLeadership announcement in 10 mins. pic.twitter.com/GJKT0nwDO8
11.38am BST
This is from the New Statesman’s George Eaton.
Labour will publish regional breakdown of the result. Corbyn source says big movement from Burnham supporters in north west.
11.37am BST
My colleague Heather Stewart says she has heard that Jeremy Corbyn has won with 62% of the vote.
I am hearing Jeremy Corbyn has won leadership with 62% of the vote - an increased margin on last year.
11.36am BST
This is from ITV’s Chris Ship.
The candidates @jeremycorbyn and @OwenSmith_MP have been told. They know who has won. But so do we really (Corbyn).
11.35am BST
This is from Sky’s Darren McCaffrey.
Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith are receiving the result in a back room before they come on stage for official announcement. #LabourLeadership
11.33am BST
Momentum crowd bursts out laughing as Owen Smith supporter says he still thinks his man can win as they watch big BBC live screen
11.31am BST
My colleague Rowena Mason has posted this from the Momentum The World Transformed alternative conference.
Big cheers for the Liverpool Socialist Singers at Momentum fringe rally waiting for Corbyn announcement. 750 here already pic.twitter.com/EU7xW25oJ4
11.27am BST
Here is the Labour MP Neil Coyle commenting on the turnout. (See 10.40am.)
Seems 20% of Labour members haven't voted. If we can't enthuse 1/5 of our own members we may have bigger problem engaging wider electorate.
11.21am BST
Sky’s Faisal Islam has seen Jeremy Corbyn this morning. He says Corbyn is looking confident.
Corbyn pops out of his hotel room, seeming rather confident.... pic.twitter.com/l1j4ycObC6
11.19am BST
If you are interested in these things, here is a House of Commons briefing note (pdf) with the results of all Labour leadership elections going back to 1922.
11.17am BST
Some Liverpool fans plan to unfurl a Jeremy Corbyn banner at Anfield. Roy Bentham from the Blacklist Support Group, which campaigns for workers blacklisted in the construction industry, is behind the move. He said:
The banner is really about recognition for Jeremy and John’s tireless efforts in campaigning for social justice wherever that may be.
We are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with them as they have with us on our long paths to justice.
11.11am BST
There has been much debate about how many people have been “purged” from the Labour leadership contest - denied a vote by party HQ for various reasons. Many of Jeremy Corbyns’s supporters believe that the party bureaucracy has been actively trying to help Owen Smith by excluding potential Corbyn voters, and even Corbyn has suggested that this could be happening.
Labour officials do not accept this and earlier this month they released figures apparently showing that only a tiny fraction of the selectorate were being excluded by the national executive committee panels that have been vetting voters to make sure they support Labour values. Only 3,107 people, or 0.48% of those entitled to vote, had been “purged”, Labour said.
There are currently approximately 129,000 registered supporters who will be able to vote in this contest. Out of the 183,000 applications to become a registered supporter (at a one off payment of £25), over 50,500 were rejected for technical reasons such as:
· Duplicate applications – for example, a number of people hit refresh multiple times on the final page or submitted a number of applications (for example, one person applied 117 times). These people were charged just once.
10.50am BST
Earlier I posted some pictures from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign. Here are some pictures of Owen Smith’s campaign over the summer. As you can see, enthusiasm for Smith, at least according to the turnout metric, was somewhat more muted.
10.40am BST
According to Sky, turnout this year is 77.6%.
That is marginally up on 2015, when turnout was 76.3%.
10.39am BST
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10.38am BST
In August, as ballot papers startied going out, the Labour party released figures saying that 640,500 would be able to cast votes in the election. Here is the breakdown.
Party members - 343,500 (54% of the total electorate)
10.18am BST
As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words and, if you want to understand the nature of Jeremy Corbyn’s achievement over the summer, you really need to look at the photographs showing the remarkable crowds he has been attracting. Here are a few of them.
Whoever wins needs to be given time to get their message over to the public. That is what you have earned the right to do as leader of the Labour party. However, also it is the case that that leader, whoever it is, has to be able to show progress - progress with the public, progress at local elections, progress in the polls.
We cannot measure our success by the size of the membership or indeed the size of the rallies that we are holding. No-one gets the right to take Labour down to a devastating defeat.
Those mass rallies by which Jeremy Corbyn sets such store could be the first stirrings of a social movement, some of which may play a part in an eventual left renaissance. But for now, they say nothing about Labour and the left’s basic predicament. (In its own way, in fact, the idea that they augur well for Corbyn’s electoral prospects is reminiscent of what I call the John Peel mistake. Circa 1969, the DJ wondered why one of his favourite albums was not in the charts: “Everyone I know’s got a copy,” he said. Back came the reply: “No – you know everyone who’s got a copy.”)
That then becomes, surely, a very strong campaigning basis for the Labour movement, becomes a campaigning factor in towns and cities where there’s never been very much activity before. That does begin to change the debate and national mood. I think you’ll begin to see that play out, particularly in local elections next year and after that.
I’ve been at political rallies all my life, of various sorts. What I find exciting and nice, but slightly depressing, is when I know half the people at the meeting I go to. I go to these events all over the country, and some of them, I don’t know anybody. I don’t know anybody at all, and they’re people who come up to me who say ‘I’ve never been involved in politics before, I’m interested in what you have to say, because I’m interested particularly in the economic argument that you have to rebalance society away from inequality towards equality’.
9.59am BST
Here are two of the Labour stories around this morning that are worth reading.
The extent of the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn if he is named Labour leader has been laid bare by a detailed study showing broad negative views of him among working-class voters.
Exclusive BMG Research polling for The Independent reveals almost half of the unskilled workers and manual labourers that Mr Corbyn needs in order to become Prime Minister believe him to be “out of touch” and an “election loser”.
But she is not going to fall into line behind Mr Corbyn. “Nothing has changed. Potentially it’s got worse because of some of the things that have happened during the campaign. At the moment I still can’t say that I have confidence in him.”
Some of the leader’s allies are suggesting that MPs should be deselected if they do not “kiss the ring” and declare their support for the leader. “If that is the attitude — that I have to do and say as I’m told — I won’t,” Ms Phillips says. “I will say and do as I think . . . My job is not to pander to Jeremy Corbyn.”
9.44am BST
Momentum, the pro-Corbyn group, is holding its own mini conference in Liverpool this week called The World Transformed. It describes itself as part of the conference fringe.
This morning it has announced that it has raised £10,000 through crowdfunding to support the event. It is hoping to raise another £20,000 to cover all its costs.
The World Transformed is about bringing people together, and creating a space for voices marginalised in mainstream politics. The event has been organised entirely by 65 volunteers and is supported by unions such as the TSSA and the Fire Brigades Union.
By funding the festival through the generosity of those that have donated to our crowdfunding campaign, we have been able to offer a platform for the voices of individuals and organisations that would otherwise go unheard.
9.38am BST
On Newsnight last night Lisa Nandy, who resigned from the shadow cabinet over the summer, said Jeremy Corbyn needed to “work as a team” with colleagues he did not always agree with if the Labour party was to unite. She told the programme:
A political party, a social movement, a shadow cabinet simply cannot survive if you refuse to hear dissenting voices and work as a team to try and resolve differences. Then it is not a shadow cabinet, it is quite simply just a fan club.
9.12am BST
And here is some Twitter comment on the Andy Burnham interview.
From the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg
Sounds like Burnham suggesting some kind of deadline to Corbyn, there will need to be a 'taking stock', to see if progress been made
Translating Burnham on @BBCr4today : we should work with Corbyn now so Left can't blame us when electorate inevitably reject him
Meanwhile can't help feeling that sound of Andy Burnham on radio urging anti-Corbyn MPs to rally round will have the opposite effect
9.08am BST
Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary and Labour candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester, has been on the Today programme this morning. Essentially he was making the same argument that he made when he spoke to the Guardian yesterday; he is appealing for some form of truce.
Crucially, this would involve Corbyn effectively being on probation, because Burnham said the party should be able to review the leadership issue if Labour is not making progress, in the polls or in local elections, before the general election.
Related: Labour faces terminal damage if fighting goes on, warns Andy Burnham
Labour’s candidate to become the mayor of Greater Manchester said that if Corbyn won, then MPs should “serve on Corbyn’s frontbench and do so in the right spirit”.
But Burnham, who remained neutral during the leadership race, said Labour would only be able to heal if there were serious concessions from the leader as well.
8.14am BST
At 11.45am the Labour party will announce the result of its leadership contest at its conference in Liverpool. Jeremy Corbyn is widely expected to win and, as we reported in our overnight lead, insiders are predicting that he will get 65% of the vote. That would be an even bigger win than last year when Corbyn got 59.5% of first preference votes. A result like this would be a big disappointment for Owen Smith, the former shadow work and pensions secretary who is challenging Corbyn and who, at the very least, hoped to make a dent in Corbyn’s lead.
Last night Corbyn issued a statement appealing for unity.
We must win the next general election so that Labour can rebuild and transform Britain – so that no one and no community is left behind. We can and must do that together.
That includes those who have voted, volunteered and campaigned for Owen Smith.
This summer, we have had a debate about the future of Labour and the future of Britain. It has been robust, and at times difficult, but it has been overwhelmingly respectful in tone.
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