Rebel Labour MPs Will Work With My New Party – Guido Fawkes

Corbyn: Rebel Labour MPs Will Work With My New Party

Corbyn is making bullish noises when it comes to co-operation between his new party and Starmer’s rebellious backbench MPs. Owen Jones (40) sat down with Jeremy Corbyn for an interview yesterday to talk about his new party. Name to be determined at its founding conference in November…

Aside from some Starmer bashing, Corbyn said that after a year of “insipid, weak, unmemorable” and “worse than expected” Labour government, backbenchers are quietly coming to find him to say “you’re doing the right thing.” Having previously treated him as if he had the “bubonic plague” when Starmer first entered office…

On whether Labour MPs and ex-Labour turned Independent MPs would join his party he said:

“Are they going to come over tomorrow? No. But are they going to work with us? Yeah. So we are therefore a force in parliament for social justice and we work with Rachael Maskell with John McDonald and others opposing the two child benefit cap etc.”

Jones will be disappointed to hear his mission to unite the Corbyn party with the Greens has already hit a roadblock, with Corbyn confirming there would not be an alliance. The fractured left providing yet another headache for No10…