Jeremy Corbyn wins re-election of Britain’s Labour Party
Q. Who has been re-elected head of Britain’s Labour Party on 24th Sept, 2016?- Published on 26 Sep 16a. Jeremy Corbyn
b. Tom Watson
c. Iain McNicol
d. Hillary Ben
ANSWER: Jeremy Corbyn
Well known socialist Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected the head of the British Labour Party, defeating a challenge to his year old leadership of a divided opposition party
- Corbyn won almost 62 percent of the greater than 500,000 votes cast by supporters and Labour members
- Corbyn was elected last year to lead Labour which governed between 1997 and 2010 but lost two successive general elections
- Corbyn won among the full members, the registered supporters and the union affiliates.
- His 61.8 percent share of the votes or 313, 209 votes was massive improvement on the tally of the previous year
- Ciritics are saying that this is an indication of the amount of weakening of the Parliamentary Labour Party that the only fight left left is the election of the shadow cabinet my MPs.
- Labour leader Corbyn has said that the party will decide shadow cabinet elections in time, but there should be a role of membership in choosing the shadow team too
- Challenger Owen Smith and former shadow foreign secretary Hillary Ben called for the party to come together
