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Toby Perkins, Liz Kendall's campaign manager, has released a statement: «These reports suggest Labour members realise that carrying on with a continuity leader will result in another defeat - the question is what kind of change Labour will embrace.»

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Then comes a question from Tory MP Michael Ellis, a member of the home affairs committee, who suggests Hague could use his surveillance powers to find out what the Labour party's position actually is.

These results further suggest that Labour members strongly support Jeremy Corbyn in his bid to remain Labour leader.

Fabian polling for our «Facing Out» pamphlet suggests there is a group of at least 2.5 million Labour identifiers, active in political engagement outside parties, and interested in participation in Labour activity without becoming members.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

The evidence from the 2010 Labour leadership contest suggested that the vast majority of affiliated members did not vote.

A number of members of the audience pressed him hard on his denials that the last Labour government had overspent, suggesting that this undermined claims that a Miliband government would be fiscally responsible.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

The average age of Labour Party members is generally thought to be around 52 although a recent estimate suggested that the influx of new members since the general election has seen that fall to 42.

Kendall's strategy of telling «hard truths» to Labour members is not paying off — as her position in the polls suggests.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

However, a YouGov poll out this week showed that Corbyn was well ahead of his rivals, even with long - standing Labour members, suggesting that any entryism will not change the final result.

The BMG Research poll for the Evening Standard suggests a wide difference of opinion between the public at large and Labour members, who look set to re-elect Mr Corbyn as party leader next month.

During the heated frontbench exchanges, Mrs May also said the Government was «not ignoring the problems that some members of this generation are facing» after she claimed Mr Corbyn's questions suggested Labour were «ignoring some of the facts».

The Unite boss - a key ally of the Labour leader and head of the biggest single donor to the party - suggested local Labour members should oust critical MPs through trigger ballots.

Many frustrated Labour MPs believe that Umunna is best - placed to be leader of the new party — and the latest Register of Member's Interests suggests that a few big Labour donors might agree.

It further suggests why a recent YouGov poll indicated that Jeremy Corbyn has the majority of support from women Labour members.

Interestingly, northern Tories suggested more emphasis on the living wage was needed, while northern Labour members wanted more power devolved to local areas.

The shock survey suggested that a massive 43 per cent of Labour supporters and members would vote for Corbyn in the first round of the leadership contest.

«The reaction to me when I said perhaps we should accept ten Syrian families... for the hundred thousand people in Bassetlaw... it was 99.9 % against any immigrants and that includes Labour party members attacking me on social media for daring to suggest that ten more immigrant families should be allowed into this country.

Harriet Harman has provoked a furious backlash among Labour members by suggesting that the party will not vote against the government's welfare bill.

The shadow cabinet member suggested Labour's ruling National Executive Committee should sack Livingstone as co-chair of the party's defence review.

Labour accused the Lib Dems of already being intent on joining with the Conservatives, while Lib Dem sources suggested senior members of the negotiating team had no interest in a coalition, despite Gordon Brown's sacrifice the day before.

A survey of Labour members and trade unionists by YouGov suggested Ed Miliband had a small lead over his older sibling, who has been considered the favourite throughout the four - month leadership campaign.

When audience members at the fringe suggested that there were serious policy differences between Labour and the Lib Dems — such as the attitudes of the two parties towards civil liberties — Campbell's fellow panelist, former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke, joked that he was «surveillance master in chief».

Labour voters do not, of course, necessarily reflect the preferences of the Labour members and supporters who get a vote, though the previous YouGov polling of Labour party members also suggested a large lead for Corbyn.

That total is up sharply from 46 per cent, and suggests that Party members have been impressed by a better run of news from the Government and a worse from Labour - whose fortunes we look at in a special series on LeftWatch this week, which opens with Christian Guy's excellent piece today.

In an interview with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, the Momentum founder Jon Lansman suggested that members of Labour's ruling national executive committee, including Jeremy Cobryn, should attend a training course on «unconscious bias».

The Times tomorrow has fresh YouGov polling of Labour members suggesting Jeremy Corbyn is comfortably ahead of both challengers.

A leaked document purporting to comprise Unite's «political strategy» last week, suggested that the union «flood» the local constituency Labour parties with Unite members, which would be marshalled by central command, with the aim of delivering the union's strategy within the party.

On Wednesday night, John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, who has previously called for the election to be suspended until proper checks can be carried out on the tens of thousands of new members, suggested that Labour MPs should renominate and choose their preferred candidate from Burnham, Kendall and Cooper to challenge Corbyn in a head - to - head contest.

For example, Labour Uncut have suggested that the implementation committee might change the basis of the London mayoral primary, and any early leadership election so that union members can be fully involved.

While this is dwarfed by the nearly 200,000 new members who have joined since May 2015, it suggests that there are dissatisfied natural Labour supporters who could make up the nucleus of a new party.

She was met by Conservative candidate Ben Gummer and members of his campaign team demanding that she withdraw a series of smears and lies Labour have been spreading, suggesting that Conservatives will close Sure Start Centres and withdraw various benefits from OAPs.

The combination of factors suggests that Corbyn supporters comprise a coalition of traditional «old Labour» members and a more mobile protest vote.

Mr A suggested public members could do this in every constituency with a Labour / Lib Dem MP and virtually bankrupt them!

Despite the chaos in the Labour ranks, the poll of more than 1,000 party members suggested that 55 % of members thought Mr Corbyn was doing well - up from 51 % at the end of June.

It marks an increased mandate for the Labour leader, who won in every single group - although an exit poll, albeit of a limited number of people, sheds some extra light on the breakdown and suggests long - term Labour members backed Smith.

September 17 - Mr Corbyn backs the return of elections to select Labour's shadow cabinet, but suggests members could be included in any votes.

According to those present, Madeleine Moon, the Labour MP and member of the UK's Nato parliamentary assembly delegation, said people in Nato were worried about Labour's position and argued it was a fantasy to suggest the UK could scrap Trident while remaining a Nato member.

So the idea that Labour would be left without any income if affiliated trade union members stopped contributing on the scale that the GMB figures suggest is evidently an exaggeration.

UPDATE: David Prescott cheekily suggests that Compass asked those left - right scale questions in the hope that Labour members would see Peter Mandleson as more right wing than David Cameron.

Labour sources suggested several leftwing names were already in the frame, including the Lewisham councillor Sakina Sheikh, the GMB organiser Nadine Houghton, and Claudia Webbe, the former chair of the Metropolitan police's Operation Trident and now a Labour NEC member.

But new research by Jake, a networking organisation for gay professionals, suggests a worrying trend for Labour, with 38 % of Jake members who took part saying they would vote Conservative at the next election, 1 % higher than the general population, according to an average of recent opinion polls.

There was a poll on Labour home the other day (very unscientific) which seems to suggest a large number of labour members want the government to lose so they can elect leader who better fits their Labour home the other day (very unscientific) which seems to suggest a large number of labour members want the government to lose so they can elect leader who better fits their labour members want the government to lose so they can elect leader who better fits their views.

Are you suggesting that Labour party members don't care about standards in public services or that we want massive inefficiency?