Jeremy Corbyn is to launch his campaign for re-election as Labour Party leader in an event on Saturday at The Lowry Theatre on Salford Quays,
The 2pm event – which organisers are throwing open to the public – is expected to be packed out with up to 1,800 people in the meeting.
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There’s launch events happening at the same time all over the country, in London, Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham, Hull, Glasgow and Cambridge.
Corbyn’s close ally, Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey is due to speak at the Salford Quays event.
She was made Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the wake of a mass exodus of MPs from her boss’ Shadow frontbench.
183,000 people who joined the Labour Party in the space of just 48 hours this week will have the chance to vote for either Owen Smith or the embattled Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn has had to stave off an attempted backbench coup – which failed as predicted – as well as the attentions of Angela Eagle MP, who was first both to announce she was standing against him for the leadership of the party, and that she was stepping aside in favour of Owen Smith.
Salford’s MPs are split on the issue of Corbyn for leader.
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29 Labour councillors, including Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett, have thrown their weight behind the leader, telling SalfordOnline.com they rejected “what appears to [have been] and organised coup”.
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Also on the panel are trade unionists, including Halton Unison branch secretary Paula Barker, and Kate Osamor MP, who became Shadow secretary of state for international development after the Brexit coup.
In his own words, Mr Corbyn has asked supporters to livestream the event to social media where possible “as the media cannot be trusted to report it”.
