Labour Leadership Result

:00:35. > :00:42.Nearly half a million people have passed their vote. If he is

:00:43. > :00:46.re-elected as Labour leader in about 45 minutes, Jeremy Corbyn has told

:00:47. > :00:51.me he will reach out to his opponents, MPs, to everyone. He

:00:52. > :00:55.said, I am very generous. Yet his challenger Owen Smith has already

:00:56. > :01:04.refused to serve in a Corbyn Shadow Cabinet if he loses. Can the party

:01:05. > :01:05.bring itself back together? We'll bring you the result

:01:06. > :01:07.and all the reaction from the party's MPs,

:01:08. > :01:09.members and the country. Our assistant political editor

:01:10. > :01:16.Norman Smith is here. The confidence and Jeremy Corbyn's

:01:17. > :01:21.camp is high, they think he could do even better than last year? It is

:01:22. > :01:27.sky-high, to be honest. I came upon the train last night with Jeremy

:01:28. > :01:30.Corbyn, this is one man who looked very relaxed, very self-confident,

:01:31. > :01:36.you talk to people in his team and they think they are on course to

:01:37. > :01:42.win, and big-time. Last time he got 59%, I think they think they can

:01:43. > :01:48.push that up to 65%, which would be a resounding victory. And it would

:01:49. > :01:51.be a shattering blow to his critics and would probably make him

:01:52. > :01:55.bombproof for the rest of this Parliament. So all of those MPs who

:01:56. > :01:59.think he is the problem, they will have another go at him, they had to

:02:00. > :02:03.get rid of him, I think that it's game over for them. There is no way

:02:04. > :02:08.they can move against him again after that size of victory. They

:02:09. > :02:13.have put up candidates against him, try to change the laws, try to

:02:14. > :02:18.stampede him into standing down when they all resigned from his front

:02:19. > :02:24.bench, they tried to keep him off the ballot paper. They have done

:02:25. > :02:28.everything to be to this man, and if he comes back with an even bigger

:02:29. > :02:32.majority, he is there at least until the general election. -- they had

:02:33. > :02:37.done everything to try to beat this man. So the critical question, how

:02:38. > :02:43.does he bring this party together? That is the acid test in our faces.

:02:44. > :02:48.He can mobilise and galvanise people, but can he bring this party

:02:49. > :02:54.together? The jury is out and it is a much, much harder task. I spoke to

:02:55. > :03:04.MP Heidi Alexander, who used to be Jeremy Corbyn's health spokesperson.

:03:05. > :03:06.I said to her, what did he have to do to bring you back on board? She

:03:07. > :03:11.said, really emphatically, to Arthur Shadow Cabinet elections, ie give us

:03:12. > :03:16.the chance to vote for people to be in the Shadow Cabinet. That is his

:03:17. > :03:21.only chance. It is the litmus test for many of the mainstream Labour

:03:22. > :03:27.MPs. He does that, then they are in a very difficult position. If Jeremy

:03:28. > :03:32.Corbyn said, OK, I know you are unhappy, I take your concerns on

:03:33. > :03:38.board, I will let you choose my Shadow Cabinet. At what pressure it

:03:39. > :03:43.puts on Labour MPs. How do they turn away and away and sulk and say, we

:03:44. > :03:52.are still not happy? It cranks up the pressure for them to come

:03:53. > :03:54.on-board. We have heard voices like Andy Burnham saying, come on, if

:03:55. > :03:57.Jeremy Corbyn gives you that you have to get on board and be

:03:58. > :04:04.constructed. The problem is, I don't think he will do that. It is a

:04:05. > :04:08.distraction, it has come out of the blue at the last minute, it is a big

:04:09. > :04:13.rule change. In other words, don't lose your breath. I think where the

:04:14. > :04:17.NEC meets this evening, they will say to him, will you allow Labour

:04:18. > :04:23.MPs to elect the Shadow Cabinet, he will fit into the middle distance,

:04:24. > :04:27.to never never land. Then the unity begins to fray already.

:04:28. > :04:31.Talking to the Shadow Chancellor McDonnell as he was finishing

:04:32. > :04:35.breakfast this morning, lots of MPs who have been critical, come and

:04:36. > :04:41.have a cup of tea with me, we can work this out, he said. There is no

:04:42. > :04:45.rush, by the sounds of things, we will have a consultation on

:04:46. > :04:49.democratic reform, in answer to the question about whether they will

:04:50. > :04:53.bring back Shadow Cabinet elections. It would be lovely if Labour plus

:04:54. > :04:58.back problems were so simple that a cup of tea could solve it. They are

:04:59. > :05:03.so entrenched in so deep, it is a massive task. But if Jeremy Corbyn

:05:04. > :05:09.increases his mandate, those MPs should get in line, plenty of

:05:10. > :05:13.members will say. Some Labour MPs think the problem, bluntly, is Mr

:05:14. > :05:17.Corbyn. But there is no resurrection for the Labour Party with him

:05:18. > :05:24.remaining leader. They take the view that nothing fundamentally has

:05:25. > :05:27.changed for this election. His approach will not change, he will

:05:28. > :05:30.still be the same Jeremy. He said that the other day, he was asked,

:05:31. > :05:35.what will you do differently? You said, I am the same Jeremy. They say

:05:36. > :05:39.that he is not up to being a leader, he is not organised but, worst of

:05:40. > :05:47.all, he is leading the party in the wrong direction. He is leading it

:05:48. > :05:51.away from emphasis on being a credible parliamentary opposition

:05:52. > :05:55.into becoming a different beast, a social movement. It is an entirely

:05:56. > :06:00.different concept. They think that is catastrophe. They think Mr Corbyn

:06:01. > :06:04.can galvanise a significant number of people, and he has. That is not

:06:05. > :06:08.the same as reaching out to the millions of people who do not give a

:06:09. > :06:13.toss about politics, they do not think about it until election time,

:06:14. > :06:25.it is irrelevant. Their fear is that he does not speak to those who elect

:06:26. > :06:28.governments. There is a clash, Mr Corbyn is at the centre of it and

:06:29. > :06:31.many Labour MPs think he has to go for Labour to recover. Those Labour

:06:32. > :06:33.MPs say that they have to win over Conservative and you get voters to

:06:34. > :06:38.win an election, and they do not think that Mr Corbyn is the man to

:06:39. > :06:42.do that because his policies are too far left? He is genuinely

:06:43. > :06:46.revolutionary with a small are, he is trying to change British

:06:47. > :06:51.politics. He does not have to speak to people like me all you, the

:06:52. > :06:55.mainstream media. He can go directly to people through social media, his

:06:56. > :07:02.army of party activists. He believes that through them engaging

:07:03. > :07:06.campaigns, opposing the closure of libraries and that local grassroots

:07:07. > :07:11.stuff you can influence people and change opinion. It is a totally

:07:12. > :07:17.different way of doing politics. If he is right, who knows what could

:07:18. > :07:23.happen? If he is wrong, as his MPs think, their fear is that the party

:07:24. > :07:29.is heading to utter annihilation, potentially terminal annihilation,

:07:30. > :07:33.at the next election. We expect the results at around 1145. We will

:07:34. > :07:38.bring about to you live. Now it is time to look at our Labour got to

:07:39. > :07:41.this point, the second leadership contest within 12 months.

:07:42. > :07:43.And here it is, ten o'clock, and we are saying

:07:44. > :07:44.the Conservatives are the

:07:45. > :07:50.Britain needs a Labour Party that can rebuild after

:07:51. > :07:52.this defeat, and now it's time for someone

:07:53. > :07:53.else to take forward the

:07:54. > :08:06.It doesn't have to be unfair, poverty isn't inevitable.

:08:07. > :08:14.REPORTER: Have you changed your position on air

:08:15. > :08:18.Mr Corbyn, will you allow your MPs a free vote?

:08:19. > :08:19.You're actually very rude, the way you

:08:20. > :08:31.Why is Adolf Hitler a vote winner, sir?

:08:32. > :08:36.The British people have spoken, and the answer is, we're

:08:37. > :08:40.Remain or Leave, many people felt that politics wasn't working for

:08:41. > :08:45.He was very half-hearted in the leadership he gave to Labour

:08:46. > :08:54.He's a good and decent man, but he is not a

:08:55. > :08:58.It might be in my party's interests for him to sit there, it's

:08:59. > :09:00.not in the national interests and I would say,

:09:01. > :09:07.Don't let those people who wish us ill divide us.

:09:08. > :09:10.Stay together, strong and united, for the kind of world we want to

:09:11. > :09:21.Great to be anti-austerity, great to have

:09:22. > :09:26.What is it we're going to do to try to change things in

:09:27. > :09:52.All solutions to these sorts of international crises do come

:09:53. > :10:31.Alan Smith has just arrived at the conference hall in Liverpool in the

:10:32. > :10:36.last few minutes. -- Owen Smith has just arrived. Let me see if I can

:10:37. > :10:42.see the expression on his face? I can't, I can tell you if he is...

:10:43. > :10:48.Who knows if he is feeling confident or not. You saw Heidi Alexander just

:10:49. > :10:52.behind him, who was supporting him. I had a chat with her a little

:10:53. > :10:55.earlier, she was very clear that Jeremy Corbyn had to Arthur Shadow

:10:56. > :11:00.Cabinet elections, that would be the only way, she said, he could bring

:11:01. > :11:05.critical MPs back on board. We would you to talk to an Alan Smith

:11:06. > :11:09.supporting MP, that she is stuck in a queue at the moment. So if she

:11:10. > :11:14.arrives, we will bring her into conversation with Clive Lewis, an

:11:15. > :11:19.MP, a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, very close to him. He is also Shadow

:11:20. > :11:22.Defence Secretary. John Ashworth, MP for Leicester South joins us, you

:11:23. > :11:26.have driven up from Leicester this morning and you have a place in

:11:27. > :11:31.Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, but you have not backed by the Cabinet

:11:32. > :11:37.because of your place on Labour's ruling body, effectively, you did

:11:38. > :11:41.not think it would be appropriate? Likely was, what do you expect in

:11:42. > :11:48.about half an hour? Listening to the media and the commentary, if that is

:11:49. > :11:54.to go by Jeremy Corbyn will win. I don't what the margin will be by. I

:11:55. > :11:57.think we are all hoping that from there, I think the message Andy

:11:58. > :12:01.Burnham put out in the media this morning, that the party really has

:12:02. > :12:07.to get together. It can't go through another year like your video just

:12:08. > :12:11.showed. You don't want this to be an annual contest? How will that help

:12:12. > :12:18.is gained, for want of a better word, momentum as we begin to move

:12:19. > :12:24.forward -- how will that help us gain? We can't tolerate that. To be

:12:25. > :12:27.quite frank, speaking to most members, most colleagues I come

:12:28. > :12:31.across, they are tired, they are worn out, they want to move forward

:12:32. > :12:35.and find things that we do agree on. One of the key differences between

:12:36. > :12:41.now and the 1980s, which so many people compare this to, ideological,

:12:42. > :12:47.I think most of the party, when it comes to education, the NHS, public

:12:48. > :12:51.ownership of rail, investing in the economy, there is a consensus across

:12:52. > :12:55.the party, so let's try to focus on that and move forward. When we come

:12:56. > :13:00.together, we are a lot stronger and we can begin to take on what I think

:13:01. > :13:05.is a very fractious Conservative Party who have brought us to the

:13:06. > :13:08.cusp of a constitutional and economic disaster, potentially, with

:13:09. > :13:12.Brexit. We should be holding them to account and looking like a credible

:13:13. > :13:18.Government, I think we can do that if we come together.

:13:19. > :13:23.John Ashworth, are you one out? I have just got here! I think party

:13:24. > :13:32.members want is to start focusing on the Tories. The Tories are in a mess

:13:33. > :13:35.with their fiscal rules. A year ago they said they had a long-term

:13:36. > :13:38.economic plan... Are your fellow colleagues ready to unite behind Mr

:13:39. > :13:43.Corbyn should he be announced the winner? Are they ready to unite

:13:44. > :13:48.behind Mr Corbyn, should he win? I think they will recognise he has

:13:49. > :13:54.won, I anticipate he will win by quite a handsome margin. There has

:13:55. > :14:01.been speculation of 65 or 70%. I hope they do unite. Equally, I want

:14:02. > :14:06.Jeremy... I have to be honest, you don't sound confident. Let me

:14:07. > :14:10.finish. Jeremy should also engage in these discussions offered about

:14:11. > :14:21.having some elected form of Shadow Cabinet, not the whole Shadow

:14:22. > :14:24.Cabinet, that would be silly. We have an NEC meeting this week, we

:14:25. > :14:26.said we would like to try to have some discussions, ideally, to get to

:14:27. > :14:29.a position by the NEC meeting tonight. I have been discussing

:14:30. > :14:32.behind the scene and urging Jeremy and his team to engage positively, I

:14:33. > :14:37.hope we can get somewhere. But not by 6pm tonight, presumably, or is

:14:38. > :14:43.that possible? I think the deputy leader Tom Watson said he did not

:14:44. > :14:48.think it was possible by 6pm? I hope so, by the National executive

:14:49. > :14:52.meeting -- on the national executive meeting on Tuesday we said, let's

:14:53. > :14:56.try to get somewhere by Tuesday. John McDonnell said we would open

:14:57. > :15:01.consultation, we will not rush it because we don't want to into this.

:15:02. > :15:07.John will understand this, when we go back to Parliament in a couple of

:15:08. > :15:11.weeks, we had to fill the 60 vacant places on the front bench. We have

:15:12. > :15:15.great ministers, people who have been rapidly promoted are doing a

:15:16. > :15:19.great job, but we need other colleagues in there. If this is a

:15:20. > :15:20.way of getting them back, we need to positively engage. Wattel Mr Corbyn

:15:21. > :15:30.do? The PLP is not homogenous, and we

:15:31. > :15:35.understand that if Jeremy Corbyn wins again for a second time, having

:15:36. > :15:39.what we had is not acceptable. There are more people now who are going to

:15:40. > :15:43.say, OK, we understand that perhaps many of us did not quite give you

:15:44. > :15:48.the chance that you deserved - we are going to give you that now, but

:15:49. > :15:52.that requires some trust, and I think in conflict resolution, both

:15:53. > :15:56.sides have to say, you did not play fair last time, there were things we

:15:57. > :16:00.did not do right, let's put that to the side and come together. That

:16:01. > :16:04.does take a bit of trust, because what Jeremy Corbyn is going to have

:16:05. > :16:09.to do, he may well win handsomely, but he will have to, effectively, if

:16:10. > :16:15.he allows elected a Shadow Cabinet members onto his Shadow Cabinet, he

:16:16. > :16:20.will be saying, I am going to trust you, you are not going to spend time

:16:21. > :16:24.boxing me in, undermining me, going through the process that we did in

:16:25. > :16:29.the first Shadow Cabinet. I think that is a leap of faith that he will

:16:30. > :16:32.have to take, potentially. I do not know his mind, but there will have

:16:33. > :16:38.to be a meeting in the middle. You know what the mood music is, is he

:16:39. > :16:43.heading towards that? I do not think anyone in the leader's office wants

:16:44. > :16:46.to see things carry on as they are, that is a powerful incentive. So

:16:47. > :16:58.Jeremy Corbyn must compromise, and there is an onus on the critical

:16:59. > :17:01.backbench MPs. If it goes ahead, if something like that is sorted out,

:17:02. > :17:03.it cannot be a platform to basically spend another year undermining the

:17:04. > :17:07.leader. So the deal would be, you can vote for who you want in the top

:17:08. > :17:10.team, as long as you do not criticise the leader. You are

:17:11. > :17:14.suggesting that as a possibility. I think that is fair and a spot-on,

:17:15. > :17:18.and that is the approach I have been taking when I have been talking to

:17:19. > :17:22.people behind the scenes this week. Ultimately, we have to remember that

:17:23. > :17:26.it is all very interesting what we think, it is what the public think,

:17:27. > :17:32.and we might have a general election next year, I don't know, but we have

:17:33. > :17:35.got important county council elections, mayoral collections,

:17:36. > :17:38.Scottish elections, and the party will focus on them, and we have to

:17:39. > :17:43.speak to people in the country and get them to vote Labour next year.

:17:44. > :17:49.That is the big message from conference. How do you explain

:17:50. > :17:52.Jeremy Corbyn being so attractive to certain people, which swelled Labour

:17:53. > :17:58.membership, no problem recruiting members, but when it comes to the

:17:59. > :18:03.wider electorate, he is not popular? In the taxi on the way here, my taxi

:18:04. > :18:07.driver, working-class, Liverpudlian, said, who are you supporting? I know

:18:08. > :18:11.it is anecdotal, but we all tell anecdotal stories, and I thought,

:18:12. > :18:16.there we go, I support Jeremy Corbyn. He said, good, I am a

:18:17. > :18:19.working class person, and I am so pleased, I hope you keep Jeremy

:18:20. > :18:22.Corbyn, because he is talking in a way that we have not heard

:18:23. > :18:29.politician speak, we are sick and tired of the same old rubbish. He's

:18:30. > :18:33.the only Leader of the Opposition, excluding Michael Foot, since the

:18:34. > :18:40.1970s, who has had negative ratings from the start of his ten-year and

:18:41. > :18:46.has carried on that way. At the start of his tenure, he was not far

:18:47. > :18:50.off the incumbent, he was likely be low. He was a new person, many did

:18:51. > :18:55.not know him, and he had a negative media profile on his way up. What

:18:56. > :18:59.you cannot take out of that equation, though, is the fact that

:19:00. > :19:02.the public do not like, as Jonathan was saying, divided parties. That is

:19:03. > :19:08.going to have an impact. Jeremy Corbyn is the face of the Labour

:19:09. > :19:13.Party, he dominates the media headlines. So if the party unites,

:19:14. > :19:16.those negative ratings will turn to positive? If the party unite and we

:19:17. > :19:20.are moving in the right direction, of course it is incumbent upon

:19:21. > :19:24.Jeremy Corbyn to play his part in moving those ratings in the right

:19:25. > :19:29.direction. Final thought, how will you measure success if he wins? We

:19:30. > :19:35.have to start making good progress in next's election, not set some

:19:36. > :19:38.ridiculous targets and say, oh, he has missed it, but progress in the

:19:39. > :19:42.constituencies that the side general elections. All the energy we have

:19:43. > :19:47.seen in the campaign, 40,000 people working on Jeremy Corbyn's campaign,

:19:48. > :19:52.some great stuff online - let's take that and targeted at the people that

:19:53. > :19:56.we need to win in the country. If we can do that, we will have a positive

:19:57. > :20:07.outcome. Thank you both very much. Let's cross to Vicki Young, who is

:20:08. > :20:11.at a rally up the road, morning! Hi there, this is a festival going

:20:12. > :20:16.on here, four days of looking at politics, looking at culture, and it

:20:17. > :20:21.really is a carnival atmosphere, lots of people crowding into a very

:20:22. > :20:25.hot room to see the result. They all expect and hope Jeremy Corbyn to be

:20:26. > :20:30.re-elected as Labour leader. Let's speak to one of the organisers,

:20:31. > :20:34.Hattie Craig, white are you doing this? This is to bring together the

:20:35. > :20:40.much wider social movement which exists in Britain, all the people

:20:41. > :20:43.involved in the campaigns, to reconnect with the Labour Party. We

:20:44. > :20:47.are bringing in ordinary people who might not have been engaged with

:20:48. > :20:50.politics at Westminster, but who would be interested in hearing talks

:20:51. > :20:55.and discussions on issues relevant to their lives, seeing political

:20:56. > :20:59.screenings, and it is to bring together as many different voices as

:21:00. > :21:05.possible. There has been some controversy around Momentum, people

:21:06. > :21:09.saying this is rivalling the Labour Party conference, you are trying to

:21:10. > :21:13.undermine it, what do you say to that? Absolutely not, there is a

:21:14. > :21:17.fringe for the conference every year, it is part of a long-standing

:21:18. > :21:21.tradition, so we are taking part of the fringe event. This is not a

:21:22. > :21:26.conference, it is not decision-making, it is a place for

:21:27. > :21:30.discussion, art and culture, and it is to complement the conference, not

:21:31. > :21:34.as a rival. How would you describe Jeremy Corbyn's appeal? Since he

:21:35. > :21:37.became leader, we have seen thousands of people joining the

:21:38. > :21:41.Labour Party, what do you think it is down to? He offers a different

:21:42. > :21:48.vision for society, a sense of hope and reconnection to ordinary people.

:21:49. > :21:52.He comes across as being different from politicians, he is an ordinary

:21:53. > :21:57.man, he does not claim maximum expenses, he has not been a banker

:21:58. > :22:00.or had a high-flying previous job in the financial sector. I think he

:22:01. > :22:04.speaks to people, and the policies that he is putting forward on the

:22:05. > :22:08.table are just so very different from what we have seen from Labour

:22:09. > :22:11.for so many years, and they are really inspiring people. What have

:22:12. > :22:18.you felt about what has been going on in the Labour Party? Most of his

:22:19. > :22:22.MPs walked out on him, how can they come back together? I found it very

:22:23. > :22:25.disappointing, the way that the PLP has behaved. It is very important

:22:26. > :22:28.that our elected representatives respect the mandate that the

:22:29. > :22:35.leadership is given by the members, so I would like to see, in this

:22:36. > :22:38.period, hopefully reconciliation processes where MPs respect the

:22:39. > :22:43.democratic mandates that Jeremy Corbyn has been given, and he brings

:22:44. > :22:48.them back in as well. Thank you very much indeed. Everyone getting pretty

:22:49. > :22:55.excited now before that result, 750 people here, we are being told.

:22:56. > :23:01.Cheers, Vicki, thank you for the moment. Back in the conference

:23:02. > :23:05.centre, Norman, who are you with? I am with Matt Wrack of the Fire

:23:06. > :23:10.Brigades Union and David Anderson, a member of the Shadow Cabinet, two

:23:11. > :23:18.jobs at the moment. Let's talk about Shadow Cabinet, how critical is it

:23:19. > :23:22.that members of the Labour PLP, Labour MPs, can elect the Shadow

:23:23. > :23:27.Cabinet, or is it all irrelevant? It is very relevant, it is how we go

:23:28. > :23:31.about it. The NEC agreed to have a proper look last week, they put out

:23:32. > :23:34.a number of options, to work through to a situation where we can come

:23:35. > :23:38.together and have a Shadow Cabinet that reflects all parts of the

:23:39. > :23:43.party, which is what we really need. The idea of just having Labour MPs

:23:44. > :23:47.elected the Shadow Cabinet, is it acceptable? As I said before, we are

:23:48. > :23:51.in the middle of a review, and I think it will say, is there a

:23:52. > :23:55.mechanism by which members can take part? Is there a role for them to

:23:56. > :24:00.appoint some people, and can me and my colleagues also say who we want

:24:01. > :24:04.to elect? But you will know there are some Labour MPs who say, unless

:24:05. > :24:08.they can elect to go to the Shadow Cabinet, they are not joining the

:24:09. > :24:12.front bench. That is their choice, but we are a member based party,

:24:13. > :24:17.those people should have some say in what we do and how we work, and how

:24:18. > :24:23.best we pulled together. That is what this week is about, how best to

:24:24. > :24:27.serve the country. Matt Wrack, you are a Corbyn supporter, what do you

:24:28. > :24:33.say to the Labour MPs who, despite the expected win for Mr Corbyn say,

:24:34. > :24:36.no, we will not get back on board? Let's see what happens today,

:24:37. > :24:40.obviously I hope Jeremy is re-elected, and I hope, if that is

:24:41. > :24:45.the outcome, people will unite around it. We won an election just a

:24:46. > :24:51.year ago, unfortunately some people did not accept that outcome. In the

:24:52. > :24:54.trade union movement and among Labour Party members, there will be

:24:55. > :24:58.very much a mood to get around those ideas and policies that people have

:24:59. > :25:03.voted for. If Mr Corbyn wins, does it make him politically bombproof in

:25:04. > :25:06.terms of future possible challengers before the next election? I am not

:25:07. > :25:11.accountable for what other people do, I was surprised that this

:25:12. > :25:14.election happened. I think it was unnecessary, in such a short space

:25:15. > :25:19.of time after the last leadership election. But that was what

:25:20. > :25:23.happened, and if people want to do that again, that is a matter for

:25:24. > :25:26.them. I would hope not. The job that working people want to see who's

:25:27. > :25:29.taking on the Tories, what devastating public services,

:25:30. > :25:34.attacking our rights, and we want to see the Labour Party in Parliament

:25:35. > :25:38.leading on that. And this leadership election, how damaging has it been

:25:39. > :25:43.for the party? I think it has been somewhat damaging, I think the

:25:44. > :25:48.discord in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been the primary source of

:25:49. > :25:50.that. And I think that a lot of MPs have gone back to their

:25:51. > :25:56.constituencies and felt very clearly the views of Labour Party members,

:25:57. > :25:59.many of them, and trade unionists, did not think this was necessary and

:26:00. > :26:04.should have been avoided. What you think of the impact of this contest

:26:05. > :26:06.on the party? We have at three months of internal navel-gazing when

:26:07. > :26:12.we should have been attacking the Tory government. The Prime Minister

:26:13. > :26:16.gave this country the biggest headache it has ever had, and he

:26:17. > :26:21.walked away, and what are we doing? Arguing with each other. We need to

:26:22. > :26:24.do what we are paid to do, get into parliament, work together, oppose

:26:25. > :26:29.this government, but forward a platform so that the people of this

:26:30. > :26:32.country have an alternative. David Anderson, Matt Wrack, thanks very

:26:33. > :26:36.much for your time, I will let you get into the conference hall. You

:26:37. > :26:39.can just see people beginning to trickle into the conference hall,

:26:40. > :26:46.they had better get a shift on, and I think Tom Watson, Vic, has also

:26:47. > :26:50.just arrived, if I am not mistaken. Yes, we saw the pictures of him

:26:51. > :26:55.walking in, thank you very much, Norman. We have five Labour members

:26:56. > :27:02.here, Alice is a councillor and Labour member. James, what have you

:27:03. > :27:06.made of the contest? It has got in the way of activities, we have had

:27:07. > :27:10.to suspend meetings because of intimidation, and I think, you know,

:27:11. > :27:14.it has stalled the party for quite some time. I am not happy with

:27:15. > :27:19.Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, and I think it was essential to encourage

:27:20. > :27:24.debate about where the party is heading. Have you been intimidated

:27:25. > :27:30.by someone? I have received threats and intimidation. Verbally, online?

:27:31. > :27:35.Mostly on social media. You think that is because you are an Owen

:27:36. > :27:40.Smith supporter? I do not define myself as an Owen Smith supporter, I

:27:41. > :27:45.have voted for him, but I think that is because I am not part of the

:27:46. > :27:50.exclusive Momentum group, that is why I am a victim of abuse. Andy,

:27:51. > :27:53.what have you made of this contest? I think the contest was needed

:27:54. > :27:58.because the PLP did not have confidence in Jeremy Corbyn, and

:27:59. > :28:01.what we see is a party divided between the Members of Parliament

:28:02. > :28:06.and the members of the party, and we did need this to clarify that, and

:28:07. > :28:11.this has clarified that, and that was the tendency to stand behind the

:28:12. > :28:14.leader. Are you expecting it to be Jeremy Corbyn? I am expecting it to

:28:15. > :28:19.be Owen Smith, I am still optimistic, I think he can win.

:28:20. > :28:23.Alice, you supported Jeremy Corbyn last time, you have supported him

:28:24. > :28:29.this time. I will support him again if I have to! You don't want this to

:28:30. > :28:33.become an annual thing do you? It is less than annual, it is a waste of

:28:34. > :28:37.time and resources, the Labour Party is better than this, and I am so

:28:38. > :28:45.glad Jeremy stuck with it, because I will stick with him. What as the

:28:46. > :28:49.contest achieved? Nothing, it has damaged Labour's chance is a letter

:28:50. > :28:54.read. We were and neck before the coup, and now we are 12 points

:28:55. > :28:58.behind. This did not have to happen, the Tories were in disarray after

:28:59. > :29:03.the Brexit vote, and we could have got behind our leader and supported

:29:04. > :29:06.him and had one over on the Tories, uniting as a real opposition to the

:29:07. > :29:12.Tories. Instead, MPs decided to take the opportunity to elect a new

:29:13. > :29:16.leader, but the party overwhelmingly supports Jeremy Corbyn. Showed his

:29:17. > :29:21.name be announced as the winner, how will you feel? I will be made up,

:29:22. > :29:27.because I support Jeremy Corbyn! What about yourself? I honestly

:29:28. > :29:31.didn't see the point of this leadership election, because I

:29:32. > :29:35.thought that it would only lead to the people who support Corbyn to be

:29:36. > :29:41.galvanised, and he would increase his majority, and therefore the PLP

:29:42. > :29:45.would be more fractured. But seeing the testimonies of different MPs,

:29:46. > :29:49.saying how they cannot communicate with Jeremy Corbyn, I was compelled

:29:50. > :29:55.to vote for Owen Smith, even though I know he is not going to win.

:29:56. > :30:04.Thank you all very much. Not long to go now. We expect the outcome in

:30:05. > :30:09.around 15 minutes, but these things are often, inevitably, a little

:30:10. > :30:14.later than scheduled. Let's take a closer look at the two men who want

:30:15. > :30:16.the job of leading Labour, starting with Mr Corbyn.

:30:17. > :30:23.# I ride my bicycle in the rain and I feel like Jeremy Corbyn...#

:30:24. > :30:26.He's been a fixture of British politics for 40 years,

:30:27. > :30:29.a regular at marches, a champion of causes.

:30:30. > :30:31.There are social solutions to the problems,

:30:32. > :30:36.and the solution is socialism at the end of the day!

:30:37. > :30:38.Jeremy Corbyn's political life started in the 1970s,

:30:39. > :30:46.a trade union organiser and Labour councillor in London.

:30:47. > :30:52.In 1983, just as Margaret Thatcher was winning a huge majority,

:30:53. > :31:00.winning last time with a 21,000 majority.

:31:01. > :31:02.But he was always a critic of New Labour,

:31:03. > :31:06.voting against the party line more than 500 times.

:31:07. > :31:10.More recently, he chaired the Stop The War Coalition,

:31:11. > :31:16.became a leading figure in the anti-austerity movement.

:31:17. > :31:18.Still, no-one gave him a chance when he entered the contest

:31:19. > :31:21.to succeed Ed Miliband as Labour leader.

:31:22. > :31:26.His campaign started attracting large crowds -

:31:27. > :31:43.The new leader promised a new type of politics.

:31:44. > :31:46.I sent out an e-mail to thousands of people and asked them

:31:47. > :31:52.what questions they would like to put to the Prime Minister.

:31:53. > :31:54.But while he had the support of Labour members,

:31:55. > :31:59.Jeremy Corbyn has never had the full backing of his own MPs.

:32:00. > :32:02.There were clashes over his policies on Syria

:32:03. > :32:07.and the new generation of nuclear weapons.

:32:08. > :32:11.The row came to a head after the EU referendum.

:32:12. > :32:13.One after another, his top team walked out.

:32:14. > :32:15.There was a vote of no-confidence

:32:16. > :32:22.I've served...in the best way I can, and today I had to go.

:32:23. > :32:25.But he refused to quit and stood again for re-election.

:32:26. > :32:28.The Labour Party saw a big increase in its membership,

:32:29. > :32:31.but the contest was at times bad tempered.

:32:32. > :32:37.There were allegations of abuse on both sides.

:32:38. > :32:39.There was a row over space on a train network -

:32:40. > :32:48.a game of Pokemon and a poor grasp of TV trivia.

:32:49. > :32:52.Do you know who these two men are? No, I don't.

:32:53. > :32:57.I cannot name them, I'm really sorry.

:32:58. > :32:59.Now opinion polls suggest an easy victory for Jeremy Corbyn.

:33:00. > :33:02.No longer the outsider - this time he's the firm favourite.

:33:03. > :33:20.We will have a look at Owen Smith in just a moment.

:33:21. > :33:22.Anuksha Asthana is political editor of the Guardian.

:33:23. > :33:26.Jim Waterson is Buzzfeed's political editor.

:33:27. > :33:33.If Jeremy Corbyn wins bigger than a year ago, then what? Them the role

:33:34. > :33:37.for him is to try to unite the party and see whether or not he can

:33:38. > :33:42.actually get more MPs behind him. There will be this crunch meeting of

:33:43. > :33:45.the party's national executive tonight, and I don't think Jeremy

:33:46. > :33:49.Corbyn is ready to sign in to any deal about how he puts together his

:33:50. > :33:55.Shadow Cabinet particularly if, as you say, as is well expected, he did

:33:56. > :34:03.even better than last year. But he still has to operating Westminster,

:34:04. > :34:06.his people know that. What is the issue for you, Jim, should Jeremy

:34:07. > :34:09.Corbyn be confirmed as leader again in a few minutes? The main issue for

:34:10. > :34:14.the auntie Corbyn members and activists is whether they bother to

:34:15. > :34:18.remain within the Labour Party. If they get completely trounced, what

:34:19. > :34:21.we will see is an effort to try to people -- try to keep people within

:34:22. > :34:25.the party. If you support Owen Smith, they will try to reach out to

:34:26. > :34:29.you to keep paying your membership sub in case of another election. But

:34:30. > :34:36.they have a long way back. There is a lot of ideas, a lot of structure.

:34:37. > :34:44.Corbyn's site has ideas, Momentum, everything.

:34:45. > :34:46.Owen Smith was virtually unknown outside Westminster until recent

:34:47. > :34:51.weeks. One party activist told me they had been an activist for years

:34:52. > :34:52.and had never heard of him until this contest, the Conti Breed MP

:34:53. > :34:58.Owen Smith. -- the Pontypridd MP. Hi, I'm Owen Smith and I'm

:34:59. > :35:00.standing to be the leader Even his biggest supporters

:35:01. > :35:05.would concede that. Owen Smith used to work

:35:06. > :35:07.at the BBC, then as an adviser I'm going to be wandering

:35:08. > :35:13.about and telling people... In 2006, he stood for election

:35:14. > :35:18.for the first time, losing Politics is about the people,

:35:19. > :35:26.but I think it's also about power. By then, he was working

:35:27. > :35:29.for the American drugs company Pfizer in its Government

:35:30. > :35:32.relations team. Four years later he stood

:35:33. > :35:33.for Parliament again, He was promoted quickly, first

:35:34. > :35:43.as Labour's Shadow Welsh Minister, and then a key role in charge

:35:44. > :35:46.of the party's policies He was never an outspoken

:35:47. > :35:57.critic of Jeremy Corbyn, but after the EU vote he was one

:35:58. > :36:00.of the 52 MPs who walked out I cannot see how he can

:36:01. > :36:06.continue, and we desperately It was one of his colleagues,

:36:07. > :36:11.Angela Eagle, who made the first move, challenging

:36:12. > :36:14.for the leadership. Soon, though, it was clear

:36:15. > :36:18.Owen Smith had more support. Angela Eagle, gay with no children,

:36:19. > :36:20.stepped aside, but only after Smith had stressed his

:36:21. > :36:25.normal family background. I was in no way implying that

:36:26. > :36:28.anybody who's got a different sexuality or a different lifestyle

:36:29. > :36:30.to me is anything other He launched his campaign

:36:31. > :36:46.with a raft of policies... Ending university tuition fees,

:36:47. > :36:47.building more council houses, a second EU referendum. That's what we

:36:48. > :36:50.need. But his rallies were more low-key

:36:51. > :36:53.at a time when Corbyn and his team were packing out town halls

:36:54. > :36:55.with their supporters. He was forced to defend his past

:36:56. > :36:58.and his background working And that was the answer

:36:59. > :37:05.we were after. There were a series of debates -

:37:06. > :37:09.in Newcastle, Glasgow, He was criticised for suggesting

:37:10. > :37:13.we should negotiate All solutions to these sorts

:37:14. > :37:18.of international crises do come And he warned of splits

:37:19. > :37:25.in the Labour Party The Labour Party is

:37:26. > :37:28.standing on the edge The people in the undecided section

:37:29. > :37:40.have moved and swelled the ranks It's grassroots Labour supporters

:37:41. > :37:43.who will decide this election, and they may prove far more

:37:44. > :37:58.difficult to win over. Still with us, the joint political

:37:59. > :38:03.editor of the Guardian and political editor of BuzzFeed News.

:38:04. > :38:08.Owen Smith surgery in the contest that if Jeremy Corbyn wins, the

:38:09. > :38:13.Labour Party will spread. Is that likely? -- Owen Smith said during

:38:14. > :38:18.the contest. I don't think so, most people do not think a split would be

:38:19. > :38:24.successful. Whether they like it or not, Labour is a very big brand in

:38:25. > :38:31.this country, and they would not have that. So some people in the

:38:32. > :38:36.party would stay and fight for the backbenchers if he loses, as

:38:37. > :38:40.expected. Somebody sent me an Owen Smith emoji yesterday, black glasses

:38:41. > :38:45.and a yellow face. He will take that away. If Jeremy Corbyn wins, and

:38:46. > :38:52.critical Labour MPs cannot get behind him, is there hope of getting

:38:53. > :38:56.rid of him, an early general election? I can't imagine. The only

:38:57. > :39:01.way you will get rid of Jeremy Corbyn now, as I see it, is if he

:39:02. > :39:05.quits or there is mass disillusionment among the Labour

:39:06. > :39:09.members. I have written a fantastic piece for BuzzFeed today, it looks

:39:10. > :39:13.at how there is not the support infrastructure around Owen Smith,

:39:14. > :39:16.there is not the moderate centrist Labour organisation. Jeremy Corbyn

:39:17. > :39:21.might struggle in a general election, but in terms of winning an

:39:22. > :39:25.internal Labour election he is a cut above. The old campaign teams who

:39:26. > :39:29.have won elections internally for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown etc, their

:39:30. > :39:36.skills do not work in the same way any more and they need to go away,

:39:37. > :39:38.think about running a campaign and think about and using the Labour

:39:39. > :39:44.voters. Theresa May promised there would not be an early general

:39:45. > :39:47.election, why are you rating your eyebrows, Anuksha? A lot in the

:39:48. > :39:51.Labour Party think she would go for an early general election, perhaps

:39:52. > :39:54.if she thinks it would get rid of Jeremy Corbyn and he is a weak

:39:55. > :39:58.leader than that would be an argument for her to wait longer. It

:39:59. > :40:03.is interesting what Jim is saying, they had a huge number of members,

:40:04. > :40:08.the Labour Party. Can they mobilise that in a way to help them? Lots of

:40:09. > :40:14.it is starry eyed about Jeremy Corbyn, people talk about the cult

:40:15. > :40:18.of Corgan. Just outside here I had a bloke tell me that he loved Jeremy

:40:19. > :40:22.Corbyn, partly because of his initials, JC, the man was a

:40:23. > :40:27.Christian. That was a bit weird. But can they do something with what they

:40:28. > :40:31.have built in the party? Sources at the Guardian saying Jeremy Corbyn

:40:32. > :40:38.has won. I am not quite sure the margin. I think you could have

:40:39. > :40:44.pointed to this at various points over the last few weeks. They have

:40:45. > :40:47.obviously spoken to somebody. Let's speak to Norman Smith in the

:40:48. > :40:52.conference hall. What are you hearing?

:40:53. > :40:56.I think that is a fairly safe bet that Jeremy Corbyn has won, I am not

:40:57. > :41:01.sure it is breaking news, I think everybody expects that. The question

:41:02. > :41:06.is whether he increases his mandate from the 59% he got last year, loose

:41:07. > :41:11.chatter around whether he can push it to 65%. I am joined by Louise

:41:12. > :41:15.Ellman, Liverpool MP, chair of the transport select committee. If Mr

:41:16. > :41:23.Corbyn wins, doesn't it open up not just a rift between him and Labour

:41:24. > :41:25.MPs but also an emerging rift between the parliamentary party and

:41:26. > :41:31.ordinary party members, who appear to back Mr Corbyn? If Jeremy wins,

:41:32. > :41:35.as expected, I think that is a great challenge for Jeremy. He has to

:41:36. > :41:38.understand that while it is great to have adoration from your own

:41:39. > :41:43.supporters within the party, and that is terrific and infuses you, it

:41:44. > :41:48.is nowhere near enough. He has to get the support of the electorate,

:41:49. > :41:53.the people who vote in the general election, that is very different.

:41:54. > :41:56.Some people say he has become intoxicated by the selfie culture,

:41:57. > :42:03.the fan club and personality culture. He is enjoying going from

:42:04. > :42:07.meeting to meeting of people already committed to him, cheering him. It

:42:08. > :42:11.is wonderful being surrounded by your fans. But he is the Leader of

:42:12. > :42:15.the Opposition, who want to be the party of Government, and the people

:42:16. > :42:19.who can make that happen are not just those who already agree with

:42:20. > :42:24.him, it is the general public. Add to now, they are not impressed and

:42:25. > :42:28.things have to change. Key to the pleas of unity seems to be the issue

:42:29. > :42:32.of the elections to the Shadow Cabinet, allowing Labour MPs to

:42:33. > :42:37.choose who serves. If Mr Corbyn does not bite on that, is there any

:42:38. > :42:43.prospect of unity with the PLP? I think the key thing is for Jeremy

:42:44. > :42:46.Corbyn, if re-elected leader, to reach out to the electorate and have

:42:47. > :42:51.a Shadow Cabinet that he is -- that is looking outwards, not inwards.

:42:52. > :42:54.Developing policies, arguing effectively, challenging the

:42:55. > :42:58.Government in Parliament but reaching outward to the community,

:42:59. > :43:03.not just the membership. How he does that is a separate issue, but that

:43:04. > :43:08.is the task and the challenge. Talking to one of his key allies

:43:09. > :43:11.this morning, he said that elections to the Shadow Cabinet are a

:43:12. > :43:17.distraction, it has come out of the blue, it is a major rule change, ie

:43:18. > :43:22.it is not happening. If it does not, would you advise Labour MPs to stay

:43:23. > :43:26.on the backbenchers or get involved? Individuals will have to make their

:43:27. > :43:30.own decisions. I would say we need to work together and the unified,

:43:31. > :43:34.but that is about working with the membership, yes, but above all with

:43:35. > :43:42.the general public, to win a general election and put right some of the

:43:43. > :43:45.dreadful wrong is being carried out, day by day. It is no good being

:43:46. > :43:47.surrounded by people who already agree with you.

:43:48. > :43:54.Andy Burnham want this morning that if the party did not unite, it could

:43:55. > :43:58.face terminal decline? The warning is very timely, we had

:43:59. > :44:02.to unite on the basis of reaching out to the electorate and the

:44:03. > :44:06.general population to argue the Labour case for our credibility to

:44:07. > :44:10.be the next Government, that is what the Parliamentary Labour Party is

:44:11. > :44:15.all about, Labour is a Parliamentary party. You risk missing the big

:44:16. > :44:20.announcements, so I will let you go. Here is the ticket you need to get

:44:21. > :44:32.in. We are getting pretty close to blast off for that announcement as

:44:33. > :44:35.to who has won, which will be put up on a big screen and will show as how

:44:36. > :44:37.each of the different sections have voted, how much support Mr Corbyn

:44:38. > :44:39.got from party members, registered supporters and the affiliated

:44:40. > :44:43.supporters in the trade unions, so we will see what support the

:44:44. > :44:48.candidates have in each area. Guardian reporter Heather Stewart on

:44:49. > :44:54.Twitter says, I am hearing Jeremy Corbyn has won with 62% of the vote,

:44:55. > :44:58.up on last year. He got just under 60% last year. That is what the

:44:59. > :45:02.Guardian has said in the last few minutes.

:45:03. > :45:12.If that is right, Team Corbyn will present but as further consolidation

:45:13. > :45:14.of their mandate. It has not gone up to 65%, as there were some

:45:15. > :45:19.suggestions, but he has boosted his mandate in the party. More than

:45:20. > :45:23.that, he has built up the party, 551,000 members, around half a

:45:24. > :45:28.million people, took part in this contest. He has brought 41,000

:45:29. > :45:33.volunteers on board. For somebody in post for a year, who has taken all

:45:34. > :45:37.the hits and attacks he has had, the divisions, to still be building

:45:38. > :45:41.support, his team will present but as a big win and a further

:45:42. > :45:46.consolidation up his mandate. I think it raises a serious question

:45:47. > :45:51.for his critics of what they do now, and whether they can credibly keep

:45:52. > :45:56.digging away, trying to undermine him. You know, they have tried to

:45:57. > :46:00.take him on in a leadership contest and lost, not only have they lost

:46:01. > :46:04.but it appears to be a big-time loss. This contest has achieved

:46:05. > :46:09.exactly what they did not want, far from being weakened, which was the

:46:10. > :46:13.hope, that is mandate would go down, it appears his mandate has been

:46:14. > :46:17.strengthened. Now I would reckon Mr Corbyn is almost bombproof now,

:46:18. > :46:22.until the next election. I cannot see who on earth would challenge

:46:23. > :46:26.him. Angela Eagle originally triggered this contest and then

:46:27. > :46:30.pulled out, Owen Smith went for it, saying I am the better candidate, I

:46:31. > :46:34.can build more people behind me. Does not really seem to happen. So

:46:35. > :46:40.you had to ask who is this mysterious challenger who can

:46:41. > :46:44.credibly take on Jeremy Corbyn. You are scratching your head, thinking,

:46:45. > :46:48.I don't see this person. Translated into English it means they're

:46:49. > :46:53.probably will not be under the leadership contest. Added to which,

:46:54. > :46:57.Mr Corbyn has built this huge support with Momentum. They have got

:46:58. > :47:01.their conference within a conference going on at the same time. He has

:47:02. > :47:06.built outside Parliament this massive body of support which no

:47:07. > :47:09.other Labour leader had done. The striking thing, it is personal

:47:10. > :47:14.support. They are not just signing up to the Labour Party and Labour

:47:15. > :47:19.Party values, they are signed up to Jeremy Corbyn. Without being trite,

:47:20. > :47:22.they are his fan club, it is almost a personality cult around Jeremy

:47:23. > :47:35.Corbyn, because he is a different political leader. He does not do

:47:36. > :47:37.things the same way as everyone else, does not play by the normal

:47:38. > :47:40.rules. People like that because they think it is not business as usual,

:47:41. > :47:43.he is an alternative leader with a different vision. The difficulty is

:47:44. > :47:45.that many MPs simply do not believe it will translate into electoral

:47:46. > :47:47.victory. For all the selfies, adulation and the big rallies, it

:47:48. > :47:48.simply won't translate into votes at the ballot box, that is what they

:47:49. > :47:57.believe matters. I think things are beginning to warm

:47:58. > :48:19.up in the hall. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:48:20. > :48:36.Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the chair of the National Executive

:48:37. > :48:45.Committee, Paddy Lillis. APPLAUSE

:48:46. > :48:52.Thank you, conference. I will now be announcing the votes cast for each

:48:53. > :48:58.candidate. We will also show the number of votes cast by each

:48:59. > :49:04.candidate of elector. Full details of the results will be available on

:49:05. > :49:07.the Labour Party website following this event. The result of the

:49:08. > :49:14.election for the leader of the Labour Party is as follows. The

:49:15. > :49:16.number of eligible voters is 654,006.

:49:17. > :49:31.APPLAUSE The number of eligible voters

:49:32. > :49:45.casting a vote in this contest is 506,000 438. -- 506,438. The number

:49:46. > :49:57.of spoiled votes was 432. The votes cast for each candidate are as

:49:58. > :50:07.follows. Jeremy Corbyn, 313,000... APPLAUSE

:50:08. > :50:23.Owen Smith, 193,000 229. -- 193,229. Conference, this

:50:24. > :50:28.represents the percentage of votes cast as follows. Jeremy Corbyn,

:50:29. > :50:40.61.8%. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:50:41. > :50:49.Owen Smith, 38.2%. APPLAUSE

:50:50. > :50:53.Conference, on these screens is also shown the breakdown of votes cast

:50:54. > :50:59.for each candidate by members, affiliate supporters and registered

:51:00. > :51:02.supporters. I am delighted to declare Jeremy

:51:03. > :51:05.Corbyn elected as leader of the Labour Party. Please, Jeremy.

:51:06. > :51:26.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE VICTORIA: DELIGHTED JEREMY CORBYN,

:51:27. > :51:32.HAVING INCREASED HIS MANDATE AND LAST YEAR, handing over, Paddy

:51:33. > :51:35.Lillis, we are expecting Mr Corbyn to say a few words.

:51:36. > :51:54.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Paddy, thank you very much for the

:51:55. > :51:59.announcement you have just made, thank you all for being here today.

:52:00. > :52:05.I want to thank the more than 300,000 supporters who have given me

:52:06. > :52:08.their support and trust in this Labour leadership election. I am

:52:09. > :52:11.honoured to have won the votes of the majority of members, affiliated

:52:12. > :52:17.supporters, and registered supporters. They have given me the

:52:18. > :52:18.second mandate in a year to lead our party.

:52:19. > :52:32.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE I want to thank all the volunteers

:52:33. > :52:37.in our amazing campaign, the tens of thousands who held all over the

:52:38. > :52:41.country in my campaign. I also want to thank all those volunteers that

:52:42. > :52:43.worked so hard and helped in Owen Smith's campaign as well.

:52:44. > :52:54.APPLAUSE Volunteers, and the work they have

:52:55. > :52:58.put in, the very lifeblood of democracy, and we have both had

:52:59. > :53:04.amazing sets of volunteers, so I say thank you to all of them for all

:53:05. > :53:09.they did over the summer. And... I want to say thank you to Owen Smith

:53:10. > :53:13.as well. Owen, we have added interesting some of debate all over

:53:14. > :53:15.the country, thank you very much for all of that, for the good

:53:16. > :53:20.discussions and good-humoured debate we have had, which no doubt we will

:53:21. > :53:28.continue, because we are part of the same Labour family, and that is how

:53:29. > :53:32.it is always going to be. That is how it is always going to be. Thank

:53:33. > :53:36.you. And it has been an amazing summer, we have had good weather, of

:53:37. > :53:41.course, and we have had events and rallies, hosting is debates all over

:53:42. > :53:44.the place, but it has been about our Labour family facing the future of

:53:45. > :53:52.how we do things together in the future. I will do everything I can

:53:53. > :53:58.to repay the trust and the support, to bring our party together, to make

:53:59. > :54:03.it an engine of progress for our country, and the people that depend

:54:04. > :54:08.on the Labour Party to protect their interests and wind power to deliver

:54:09. > :54:14.real change in this country. -- win power.

:54:15. > :54:20.Elections are passionate and often partisan affairs, things are

:54:21. > :54:24.sometimes said in the heat of debate, on all sides, which we

:54:25. > :54:28.sometimes later come to regret. But always remember, in our party, we

:54:29. > :54:34.have much more in common than that which divides us. As far as I am

:54:35. > :54:37.concerned... As far as I am concerned, let's wipe that slate

:54:38. > :54:38.clean from today and get on with the work we've got to do as a party

:54:39. > :54:56.together! We are proud, as a party, that we

:54:57. > :55:01.are not afraid to discuss openly, to debate, and to disagree. That is

:55:02. > :55:05.essential for a party that wants to change people's lives for the

:55:06. > :55:13.better, that isn't prepared to accept things as they are. It's also

:55:14. > :55:19.an essential part of what has trawled over half of million people

:55:20. > :55:30.into membership of what is now the largest political party anywhere in

:55:31. > :55:34.Western Europe. We have almost tripled our membership since last

:55:35. > :55:39.spring. Those new members are part of a nationwide movement who can now

:55:40. > :55:43.take our message into every community in the country, to win

:55:44. > :55:48.support for the election of a Labour government. Our party has a duty of

:55:49. > :55:54.care to our members. That means intervening to stop personal abuse,

:55:55. > :56:00.and also abiding by the principles of natural justice in the way that

:56:01. > :56:04.we handle it. Politics is demeaned and corroded by intimidation and

:56:05. > :56:06.abuse, it is not my way, and it is not the Labour away and never will

:56:07. > :56:16.be. APPLAUSE

:56:17. > :56:23.Now, friends, is the time for all of us to focus every ounce of our

:56:24. > :56:28.energy on exposing and defeating the Tories, and the damage they are

:56:29. > :56:30.doing to our country. Theresa May's government isn't a new government,

:56:31. > :56:36.it is David Cameron's government with a new hard right edge

:56:37. > :56:42.repackaged with progressive slogans. But threatening... But threatening

:56:43. > :56:47.to take the country backwards, and dithering as we face the historic

:56:48. > :56:53.challenges of Brexit, so if you believe that education is better

:56:54. > :56:58.than segregation, that we need an NHS that isn't threatened with

:56:59. > :57:03.breakdown and loaded with debt, that older people deserve dignity and the

:57:04. > :57:08.care they need in their own home, that we have a duty as a country to

:57:09. > :57:15.refugees and promote peace rather than conflict, if, like me, you

:57:16. > :57:19.believe it is a scandal that here in Britain, the sixth largest economy

:57:20. > :57:25.in the world, four million children are in poverty, 6 million workers

:57:26. > :57:30.are paid less than the living wage, and if like me you believe we can do

:57:31. > :57:34.things far better, then help us build support for a genuine

:57:35. > :57:39.alternative that will invest in our future, a more prosperous future in

:57:40. > :57:43.which the wealth we all create is shared more equally.

:57:44. > :57:58.APPLAUSE Together, arguing for the real

:57:59. > :58:02.change this country needs, I have no doubt that this party can win the

:58:03. > :58:06.next election, whenever the Prime Minister decides to call it, and

:58:07. > :58:11.form the next government. To do that, we need to work together. This

:58:12. > :58:16.time next week, we are all going to hit the streets, united as a party.

:58:17. > :58:22.I am calling on Labour Party members all over the country to join us in a

:58:23. > :58:25.national campaign for inclusive education for all next Saturday.

:58:26. > :58:39.APPLAUSE The Tories' plans for grabs cool

:58:40. > :58:47.segregation of our children exposed their divisive and damaging agenda

:58:48. > :58:51.for our country. -- grammar school segregation. My responsibility to

:58:52. > :58:55.this party is to unite, in conference at this week in the

:58:56. > :58:58.wonderful city of Liverpool, in Parliament, and in every community

:58:59. > :59:02.around the country. But it is also the responsibility of the whole

:59:03. > :59:05.party, member is Parliament, councillors, party members, and our

:59:06. > :59:08.wonderful supporters across the country, to work together and

:59:09. > :59:10.respect the democratic choice that has been made. -- Members of

:59:11. > :59:25.Parliament. Labour is a party brimming full of

:59:26. > :59:31.ideas, of talent, of creativity, and so is this country. Unleashing that

:59:32. > :59:37.potential is the job of all of us. Let us work together for real change

:59:38. > :59:50.in Britain. Thank you very much! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:59:51. > :00:01.STUDIO: Jeremy Corbyn applauding those who applaud him. Dave Margaret

:00:02. > :00:05.Beckett. Thumbs up to the crowd. He is getting a standing ovation.

:00:06. > :00:10.Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as Labour leader. The second time he has won

:00:11. > :00:17.this contest it just over 12 months, this time he increased his mandate,

:00:18. > :00:22.receiving 61.8% of the vote, last year he received just under 60% of

:00:23. > :00:26.the vote. We talked about the Labour family, he made a real point of

:00:27. > :00:35.saying that he and his challenger, Owen Smith, were members of the

:00:36. > :00:38.Labour family. He said Labour was an engine of progress and that they

:00:39. > :00:42.will win power to deliver real change in this country. He made a

:00:43. > :00:47.point that he said that during contests, heated things are said

:00:48. > :00:51.both sides that we might regret, but we have much more in common than

:00:52. > :00:55.that divides us. Norman, where you and who are you with?

:00:56. > :00:58.I'm just outside the conference hall where people are streaming out.

:00:59. > :01:04.Let's see if I can get an immediate reaction. What do you think about Mr

:01:05. > :01:10.Corbyn's victory, are you pleased? Very silent. What you make of Mr

:01:11. > :01:17.Corbyn's victory? Very disappointed. What do you make of it? My name is

:01:18. > :01:23.Louise Haigh on, the MP3 Sheffield Heeley. I was backing Owen,

:01:24. > :01:27.disappointed that he did not win, but congratulations to Jeremy. But

:01:28. > :01:31.from the polling it reveals that the movement is still divided, Jeremy

:01:32. > :01:38.failed to win over the long standard members, Owen failed to win over the

:01:39. > :01:41.newer members. Mr Corbyn did best with the so-called registered

:01:42. > :01:47.supporters. There has been huge controversy over these people who

:01:48. > :01:51.have paid ?25. How much did this influence the vote, people being

:01:52. > :01:58.energised, paying the ?25 signing up? He had an overwhelming majority,

:01:59. > :02:01.just as he did last year. I did not support registered supporters when

:02:02. > :02:04.Ed Miliband brought them in, I don't support them now and I don't think

:02:05. > :02:09.that they should have a role, but he also had a majority among newer

:02:10. > :02:14.members, so I don't think we can demean his victory. Again and again

:02:15. > :02:17.he said in his victory speech that we all have a responsibility to

:02:18. > :02:21.unite. The question is whether people like you in the PLP will

:02:22. > :02:27.unite behind him and willingly and constructively serve? I remain on

:02:28. > :02:31.the front bench, I am still a Shadow Minister and will be if he wants me

:02:32. > :02:36.to stay there. I said before I would get back to whether what elected.

:02:37. > :02:40.Jeremy is right, we all have a responsibility to unite the party.

:02:41. > :02:47.We need to see action from him, I want to see him back and elected

:02:48. > :02:49.Shadow Cabinet. We have to stop any talk about revenge all

:02:50. > :02:54.vindictiveness against those who did not support him this time, actions

:02:55. > :02:58.will speak louder than words, we have heard a lot of that over the

:02:59. > :03:06.summer. The time for talking is over, we need to see confidence from

:03:07. > :03:13.both sides. Back to you, Victoria. I will speak to the stress MP Chuka

:03:14. > :03:18.Umunna, who left Jeremy Corbyn's team and supported the no-confidence

:03:19. > :03:25.motion -- the stratum MP. How do you react? It was decisive, the

:03:26. > :03:30.leadership has been settled, we had to move forward. I absolutely agree

:03:31. > :03:34.with Jeremy Corbyn that we need to look outward, facing forward to the

:03:35. > :03:39.public, with a view of winning a general election. And we have to

:03:40. > :03:44.unified. Unity will not come about through demand, through threat,

:03:45. > :03:48.through the online thuggery that we have seen, which is why I am pleased

:03:49. > :03:56.to hear his comments about an end an online abuse that we have seen. In

:03:57. > :04:00.the end, unity comes about through talking, understanding, dialogue,

:04:01. > :04:06.solidarity. When you hear this talk of deselection of Labour MPs, good,

:04:07. > :04:08.hard-working, popular Labour MPs, that is completely

:04:09. > :04:13.counter-productive. Jeremy has been clear that he does not need to

:04:14. > :04:15.change rules about the way Parliamentary candidates are

:04:16. > :04:20.selected, he should be clear that that is the end of the matter and

:04:21. > :04:26.the only talk about the selection should be of Conservative MPs at the

:04:27. > :04:29.next general election. The immediate task we have in uniting the party is

:04:30. > :04:34.to reconcile the mandates that has been repeated today similar to the

:04:35. > :04:37.last one that Jeremy got from the membership, reconciling that with a

:04:38. > :04:43.mandate that Labour MPs elected under a different leader have from

:04:44. > :04:46.9.3 million Labour voters. The reintroduction of Shadow Cabinet

:04:47. > :04:50.elections, as Louise Haigh and just said, would certainly be a vehicle

:04:51. > :04:54.through which that could be achieved. Jeremy himself opposed the

:04:55. > :04:58.abolition of Shadow Cabinet elections in the first instance

:04:59. > :05:04.under Ed Miliband. I think it would be good to bring that back. Beyond

:05:05. > :05:09.that, we have to now really deal with some of our weaknesses, some of

:05:10. > :05:14.the issues on which we know we are struggling to get the trust of the

:05:15. > :05:18.people, in particular immigration. I was flabbergasted that, frankly,

:05:19. > :05:22.immigration was not more of the debate in the leadership contest

:05:23. > :05:26.given that about a third of Labour voters took a different view to our

:05:27. > :05:30.official position on staying in the EU, principally on immigration. We

:05:31. > :05:36.have to find a resolution consistent with our values, that resonate with

:05:37. > :05:39.lots of our people. We know from John Curtice, who came closest to

:05:40. > :05:44.predicting the general election result last year, that our economic

:05:45. > :05:48.competence was one of those issues. Those are the two big issues with a

:05:49. > :05:53.general election in mind. The most immediate task, of course, is making

:05:54. > :05:57.sure that we secure the most progressive Brexit deal possible.

:05:58. > :06:01.That is a really massive task for every Labour MP, on the front bench

:06:02. > :06:05.or the backbench. You didn't have confidence in your

:06:06. > :06:09.leader earlier this year, do you have confidence in him now?

:06:10. > :06:17.I think we all have to come together. You have around 40% of the

:06:18. > :06:21.electorate in this contest you have also said they have had concerns

:06:22. > :06:27.about the leadership. But we have had the result now, this has drawn a

:06:28. > :06:33.line, if you like, and we have to or wit. Different people say, I am a

:06:34. > :06:37.Momentum supporter, I am a Labour person and I want the Labour Party,

:06:38. > :06:43.whoever the leader is, to do well. Of course you do, but how... Getting

:06:44. > :06:47.into Government is how you make your value is real. But how would you say

:06:48. > :06:51.with a straight face to the wider electorate, bowled for this man, he

:06:52. > :06:57.will be your next Prime Minister and will be good at it? We have elected

:06:58. > :07:02.leader. He is our candidate to be Prime Minister. That is what we have

:07:03. > :07:07.said through this result. You can't complain about the rules after they

:07:08. > :07:11.have been run and you get a result. We have resulted had to move

:07:12. > :07:16.forward. If we continue having this debate every week, how will we move

:07:17. > :07:21.forward? I want to see our values implemented in office, I want to see

:07:22. > :07:26.us in Government. This is the test. The challenge to the leadership. We

:07:27. > :07:29.had to get Labour into Government. It is nonsense to suggest that

:07:30. > :07:33.somehow we were doing well in the polls before the Brexit vote and the

:07:34. > :07:38.vote of no-confidence, there have been over 80 different polls the

:07:39. > :07:41.change in leadership last year and we have been trailing in every

:07:42. > :07:45.single one, in almost every single one. We may well be the biggest

:07:46. > :07:49.party in Europe right now, numerically, in terms of supporters

:07:50. > :07:53.and members, but we are trailing in the polls and have been for a long

:07:54. > :07:57.time. We need to turn that around to get into Government, sort out the

:07:58. > :08:01.NHS, have the education campaign implemented that Jeremy talked

:08:02. > :08:06.about. We can't do any of these things unless we get into

:08:07. > :08:10.Government. Final thoughts, an appeal from you to call off the dogs

:08:11. > :08:15.when it comes to threatening deselection of Modra 's MPs, a call

:08:16. > :08:20.for Shadow Cabinet elections. You would serve in Jeremy Corbyn's top

:08:21. > :08:26.team? -- it deselection of moderate MPs. I left by mutual decision,

:08:27. > :08:30.Jeremy did not want me to stand in the Shadow Cabinet. I am standing to

:08:31. > :08:33.be chair of the Holah let -- Home Affairs Select Committee, which I am

:08:34. > :08:37.a member of. If people want to go back to serve, that is a good thing

:08:38. > :08:41.and I will support them. That being on the front bench is not the only

:08:42. > :08:45.way of serving. Look at Margaret Hodge on the Public Accounts

:08:46. > :08:53.Committee, holding to account those multinational companies and their

:08:54. > :08:56.failure to pay tax, and the work done by Tom Watson, which I think

:08:57. > :08:58.was a boost to his deputy leadership campaign, in calling for more

:08:59. > :09:02.regulation of newspapers and the way they operate. He did that on a

:09:03. > :09:07.select committee. You can advance Labour in parliament in different

:09:08. > :09:11.ways. All the pieces of the jigsaw, the Shadow Cabinet, select

:09:12. > :09:16.committees, backbench MPs, running campaigns, they are vital to

:09:17. > :09:25.strengthening our cause to support social justice. Thank you, Chuka

:09:26. > :09:28.Umunna, the Labour MP for Streatham. It sounds like he would rather chair

:09:29. > :09:33.the Home Affairs Select Committee than return to the top team of

:09:34. > :09:36.Jeremy Corbyn. Delegates, Members End Labour supporters are streaming

:09:37. > :09:46.out behind me. Some looking absolutely delighted, some less so.

:09:47. > :09:51.We will talk to some in a moment, but let's speak to Vicki Young at

:09:52. > :09:56.the grassroots Festival/ meeting of Momentum, the organisation --

:09:57. > :10:01.organisation set up to support Jeremy Corbyn. There is a carnival

:10:02. > :10:07.atmosphere, at delight comic huge cheers from the people here. This is

:10:08. > :10:11.a four-day event which they runs alongside the Labour Party

:10:12. > :10:16.conference. -- which they say runs alongside. Many expected the result

:10:17. > :10:20.and felt the contest was a waste of time and resources. What they wanted

:10:21. > :10:25.the party to come together and support and back Jeremy Corbyn. Many

:10:26. > :10:29.feel he was not given a fair hearing or a real chance when he was elected

:10:30. > :10:34.for the first time. Let's speak to some people here, what is your

:10:35. > :10:48.reaction? Thrilled that Jeremy has won and beyond excited to go back to

:10:49. > :10:51.my community, I'm from Leeds, and to start for real social change with

:10:52. > :10:54.the Labour Party members. What is your message to MPs? We have more in

:10:55. > :10:57.common than that divides us. Jeremy is a strong leader who can win in

:10:58. > :11:03.2020 and MP should get behind him and the membership. This Momentum

:11:04. > :11:07.grouping, what is the excitement been for the grassroots? It has been

:11:08. > :11:13.amazing with Momentum to get involved with people from all walks

:11:14. > :11:17.of life in leaps. Old people, young people, people new to politics,

:11:18. > :11:22.people who have been in politics for decades. Nudges the same old people,

:11:23. > :11:28.the same old catchphrases, new, exciting ideas. -- not just the same

:11:29. > :11:30.old people. What is Jeremy Corbyn's appeal? A group he talks the sort of

:11:31. > :11:47.politics I have always felt in my life, but it has never

:11:48. > :11:49.been in the media and somebody is at last saying what I felt for a long

:11:50. > :11:52.time around wall, refugees, education and health. I think it is

:11:53. > :11:55.fantastic to have this opportunity to change things. We can get elected

:11:56. > :11:58.if we get the membership United. I think it is exciting. That is the

:11:59. > :12:02.big if, it is whether the party can come together and be on the same

:12:03. > :12:08.side. Do you think that is possible after the year we have had? I think

:12:09. > :12:11.with over 500,000 members, anything is possible, and they think the MPs

:12:12. > :12:15.need to listen to the membership and take note and fight against the

:12:16. > :12:21.Tories instead of within the party, I am sure they can do that. What do

:12:22. > :12:35.you say to those who say that Corbyn's appeal does not go

:12:36. > :12:39.beyond thousand grassroots members, if you're going to win a general

:12:40. > :12:42.election you have to vote to people who would have voted Tory in the

:12:43. > :12:44.past. People I speak to at work are aware that something is changing. We

:12:45. > :12:47.don't want people in suits telling us lies, making decisions that will

:12:48. > :12:49.benefit them and their peers, the millionaires. I think the people in

:12:50. > :12:53.the Cabinet are all millionaires. We want people making decisions to

:12:54. > :12:56.understand what it is like to be an ordinary person. I think Jeremy

:12:57. > :13:00.Corbyn can do that in a way that no other politician has for a long

:13:01. > :13:04.time. I think he will and does connect with an awful lot of

:13:05. > :13:10.ordinary people, who aren't politically engaged. He is talking

:13:11. > :13:16.sense. That is what we are hearing, anyway. What is your reaction to the

:13:17. > :13:21.real action? Obviously very pleased that Jeremy has won again with an

:13:22. > :13:27.even bigger mandate than last year. The only way is forward. What is

:13:28. > :13:30.your message to Labour MPs who, let's face it, have not backed him

:13:31. > :13:36.up and do not think he leads the party in the right direction? The

:13:37. > :13:40.membership has spoken, it is time to get behind, Unite, make Labour a

:13:41. > :13:48.winning force in politics again. Your reaction? I am delighted. I

:13:49. > :13:54.could not be more delighted. I am very pleased that Jeremy has been

:13:55. > :13:58.re-elected. I think that he is a return to proper Labour Party values

:13:59. > :14:02.and principles. We were talking on the train on the way over from

:14:03. > :14:06.Bradford about what Labour Party values are, one of them is decency,

:14:07. > :14:10.I don't think you could find a more decent person anywhere. He will be a

:14:11. > :14:15.brilliant leader. The Parliamentary Labour Party must get behind him

:14:16. > :14:20.now. Thank you. The message, loud and clear, from the people here, MPs

:14:21. > :14:24.need to get behind Jeremy Corbyn, they feel it is the divisions in the

:14:25. > :14:27.Labour Party that have been the problem. They don't think the

:14:28. > :14:32.problem is Jeremy Corbyn, the message is to MPs who need to get

:14:33. > :14:42.behind him and campaign. Thank you very much, let's try to

:14:43. > :14:45.grab some of the delegates just leaving the conference hall. Hello,

:14:46. > :14:47.what did you think when you heard Corbyn had been re-elected?

:14:48. > :14:51.Extremely pleased, and I hope that with the second mandate as a party

:14:52. > :14:55.we will unite behind Jeremy as our leader and become the official

:14:56. > :15:00.opposition, doing what we expect the opposition to do, hold the

:15:01. > :15:03.Government to account and prepare ourselves for the forthcoming

:15:04. > :15:09.general election, hopefully forming a Labour Government. What do you say

:15:10. > :15:10.to those MPs who have been critical of Corbyn, openly and when it comes

:15:11. > :15:21.to briefing members of the media? Listen to the members, they have

:15:22. > :15:24.voted Jeremy again with a resounding majority, please listen to your

:15:25. > :15:29.members and support Jeremy, we need to unite as a party if we are going

:15:30. > :15:34.to be effective. Thank you very much, we will talk to more as they

:15:35. > :15:37.exit the conference hall. We are going to talk now to a woman who

:15:38. > :15:43.resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's top team back in the summer, Seema

:15:44. > :15:47.Malhotra was shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, hello to you. What

:15:48. > :15:52.do think of the result? Well, it is a time for us to come together, not

:15:53. > :15:57.an unexpected result, and it has been a bruising summer for all

:15:58. > :16:01.sides, as we had the conversation, a top conversation, about what it will

:16:02. > :16:05.take for us to win in the Labour Party. Now people will say we want

:16:06. > :16:11.time to be able to come together, I think it is absolutely vital that,

:16:12. > :16:14.whichever way people campaigned all voted, we stay in the Labour Party,

:16:15. > :16:18.and that we focus on what we need to do to provide the opposition to

:16:19. > :16:22.Theresa May and focus on how we win the next election. I think at this

:16:23. > :16:28.time we can save up with some money challenges coming upstream, whether

:16:29. > :16:32.welfare and benefit cuts, the challengers after Brexit, that we

:16:33. > :16:35.say we have got the answers more in the Labour Party, we have to be

:16:36. > :16:39.voicing those is a strong opposition. What adjective would you

:16:40. > :16:46.use to describe how you felt when you heard Jeremy Corbyn's name read

:16:47. > :16:51.out? I think it was, you know, probably expected. Your emotion was,

:16:52. > :16:55.that was expected? We have got to come together, my emotion was, there

:16:56. > :16:59.are so much division in the country, there has been a divisive and

:17:00. > :17:02.bruising period in the Labour Party, it has been unpleasant for

:17:03. > :17:06.everybody, and I think people are now saying, when I talk to members

:17:07. > :17:10.and constituents, that we won't Labour to be fighting as a strong

:17:11. > :17:13.opposition. That does mean we have to find a way of addressing the

:17:14. > :17:18.issue that caused this to happen in the first place, and I think there

:17:19. > :17:23.has to be something on both sides, it is an important stage we are at,

:17:24. > :17:33.and we have to see the partnership. Be people like you who resigned from

:17:34. > :17:38.the top team, is there an irony that this has made Mr Corbyn stronger? We

:17:39. > :17:41.do want to see the Labour Party go forward together, I think whichever

:17:42. > :17:46.side you are on, I have talked to members on both sides who say that

:17:47. > :17:51.there were different reasons why they chose either Jeremy or Eoin in

:17:52. > :17:54.this election, but we are united in wanting to fight for the Labour

:17:55. > :17:58.Party to be in power, I think that is where we are, and I believe where

:17:59. > :18:02.we have to play a part is, whichever way we can play that part, to be

:18:03. > :18:06.focused on making sure the Labour Party is in the strongest position,

:18:07. > :18:09.addressing the issues it needs to to make sure that it can be in the

:18:10. > :18:14.stronger position to win government again. Would you go back to the top

:18:15. > :18:19.team? I am prepared to have an open conversation about what role I play,

:18:20. > :18:23.front bench or backbench. I am not being presumptive about whether it

:18:24. > :18:27.is going back or not, I do not think you can go back, but you do go

:18:28. > :18:34.forward... John McDonnell has invited people like yourself or a

:18:35. > :18:37.cup of tea and a chat, will you be taking him up on that? That is jewel

:18:38. > :18:40.crossed the Labour Party, and between the different sites, we want

:18:41. > :18:43.to come together, it is about partnership, addressing the issues,

:18:44. > :18:48.making sure we stay in the Labour Party and stay together. Norman is

:18:49. > :18:53.outside the conference all here in Liverpool.

:18:54. > :18:57.Hey, Vic, I have got one man who should be happy, James Schneider,

:18:58. > :19:01.the national organiser of Momentum, key supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, a

:19:02. > :19:07.big win, yes, but not as big as some thought. No, fantastic, larger

:19:08. > :19:11.mandate than last year and that is after people were excluded from

:19:12. > :19:14.voting, the new members who signed up after January. There is no way

:19:15. > :19:17.you can spin it other than a fantastic result, the margins in all

:19:18. > :19:23.three categories, we are really pleased. Doesn't it raise new

:19:24. > :19:26.controversy over the registered supporters, people who paid to vote

:19:27. > :19:33.in the contest? That is where he has done best by quite a long way.

:19:34. > :19:37.YouGov 58% of the vote in full party members, 60% in affiliate so bold as

:19:38. > :19:42.to trade unions, 69% in the registered supporters. 50,000 of

:19:43. > :19:49.those registered supporters were full party members who were denied a

:19:50. > :19:52.vote. The idea that he has only won because of Johnny come lately is

:19:53. > :19:59.completely untrue. We are listening to a Momentum rally at the moment,

:20:00. > :20:02.the appeals for unity and again and again, that has to be more than

:20:03. > :20:08.words, so what does Mr Corbyn have to do to get his MPs on board? He

:20:09. > :20:14.has got to do what he is doing, bring the party together, but it

:20:15. > :20:18.goes both ways. What we need, I think, is MPs to recognise that the

:20:19. > :20:21.direction that the members want to take the party, and actually come

:20:22. > :20:24.across this summer and the leadership debate, there has been a

:20:25. > :20:29.whole load of agreement on big areas of policy where we can go, and it is

:20:30. > :20:34.a big base to unite around. What you say to the Labour MPs who are scared

:20:35. > :20:41.witless by Momentum, who see it as a front for getting rid of mainstream

:20:42. > :20:47.centrist Labour talk to us, that is not the case, we are not campaigning

:20:48. > :20:53.for deselection. We are campaigning to make the party more inclusive, we

:20:54. > :20:57.are part of the Labour movement, we want to help Labour win elections.

:20:58. > :21:02.If you have heard rumours about horrible things we do, they are not

:21:03. > :21:06.the case, come and talk to us. An invitation to the Labour MPs who

:21:07. > :21:12.have any doubts, pick up the phone, give him a call, see if your fears

:21:13. > :21:16.are allayed. Back to you, Vic. Let's talk to various members who

:21:17. > :21:20.have just come out of the conference hall, Michelle, you voted for Mr

:21:21. > :21:25.Corbyn, what are you thinking right now? I am delighted, I think the

:21:26. > :21:28.right person won, it is a great result today, and I think it is a

:21:29. > :21:33.great chance for the party to unite and move forward. James Aspinall,

:21:34. > :21:39.you were supporting a Owen Smith, how you feeling right now? I am just

:21:40. > :21:44.pleased that this nightmare is over, as Michelle has said, this is the

:21:45. > :21:48.opportunity now for us to move forward and unite. There are things

:21:49. > :21:55.bigger than this, whether Jeremy Corbyn or Owen Smith, and we have to

:21:56. > :22:01.unite now together to face the electorate and take on the Tories,

:22:02. > :22:05.that is our prime function in life. We spoke earlier, you were a little

:22:06. > :22:08.emotional, you said, when you are knocking on the doors, people were

:22:09. > :22:13.saying, I cannot vote for you with Jeremy Corbyn as leader. It is true,

:22:14. > :22:17.people do say that, and there are people who say they will vote for

:22:18. > :22:23.him, but that is democracy, that is the way the British people are. We

:22:24. > :22:28.have to respect that and come up with a set of policies that appeals

:22:29. > :22:32.to everybody, not just certain sections. Joseph, hello, you dressed

:22:33. > :22:36.up for the occasion, looking magnificent, if you don't mind me

:22:37. > :22:41.saying so! What do you think of the result? God just fantastic, I am

:22:42. > :22:45.very, very pleased, the most important thing is we have to come

:22:46. > :22:50.together and put a big fights towards the Tories, that is the most

:22:51. > :22:54.important thing. We have been fighting, but without unity there

:22:55. > :23:01.will be no success, so I will appeal to the PLP members to back Corbyn,

:23:02. > :23:08.come back and work together so that we can win the 2020 election. Mick,

:23:09. > :23:13.what would you say, as a member, to Labour MPs who have been critical of

:23:14. > :23:17.Mr Corbyn the past few months? We have four years before we have to

:23:18. > :23:22.face an election. I cannot hear you, speak up. We have got four more

:23:23. > :23:26.years before we have to face an election, and we can do a lot more.

:23:27. > :23:34.Basically, people haven't seen anything yet. Full OK. Over this

:23:35. > :23:39.last year, Corbyn has managed to induce many people, including me,

:23:40. > :23:46.and I think that is going to take this right through to the next

:23:47. > :23:53.election. What is it about team -- Mr Corbyn that appeals to you, Mick?

:23:54. > :23:56.Sincerity, no spin, he is not media savvy, which is a bit of a problem

:23:57. > :24:00.considering where we are at the moment, but he means what he says,

:24:01. > :24:07.he hasn't changed is the use for the last 30 years, which is a good

:24:08. > :24:10.thing. -- he hasn't changed his views. Most of the recent policies

:24:11. > :24:15.that the new contender was pushing forward at the same as he has

:24:16. > :24:20.himself. You wanted Owen Smith to win, what do you say now? We have

:24:21. > :24:24.got to be hopeful. It is right to say that Owen Smith believes in a

:24:25. > :24:27.lot of things that Jeremy believes in, but the reason a lot of people

:24:28. > :24:36.opposed is because of the strategy, the weight we put forward what we

:24:37. > :24:45.believed in, so I think we can be hopeful this that maybe we will look

:24:46. > :24:50.being more confident, cooperating more, building up, uniting a bit

:24:51. > :24:55.more, to be a bit more of an effective opposition. Do you think

:24:56. > :25:00.that is realistic, Michelle, all the people within the PLP, 172 MPs who

:25:01. > :25:07.voted in that no confidence motion against their leader? All that

:25:08. > :25:11.anxiety about Mr Corbyn's competence, as they put it, will it

:25:12. > :25:16.suddenly disappear because he has been re-elected? I think there needs

:25:17. > :25:20.to be a lot of conversations had, as Jeremy just said, he is prepared to

:25:21. > :25:23.wipe the slate clean. There has been a lot of bad things said which

:25:24. > :25:27.shouldn't have been said. I think, if we are going to be Cardinal in

:25:28. > :25:31.the next election, that we need to all come together, and there needs

:25:32. > :25:34.to be some serious conversations had about how people can work together,

:25:35. > :25:39.and that is what is the most important thing. Let's hear a little

:25:40. > :25:43.bit more about what Jeremy Corbyn said in his acceptance speech, his

:25:44. > :25:50.thank you speech, if you like, after he was re-elected.

:25:51. > :25:52.My responsibility to this party is to unite, in

:25:53. > :25:53.conference at this week in the wonderful

:25:54. > :25:55.city of Liverpool, in Parliament,

:25:56. > :25:56.and in every community around the country.

:25:57. > :26:02.But it is also the responsibility of the whole party,

:26:03. > :26:05.Members of Parliament, councillors, party members,

:26:06. > :26:07.and our wonderful supporters across the country,

:26:08. > :26:09.to work together and respect the democratic choice

:26:10. > :26:19.Labour is a party brimming full of ideas,

:26:20. > :26:24.of talent, of creativity, and so is this country.

:26:25. > :26:27.Unleashing that potential is the job of all of us.

:26:28. > :26:31.Let us work together for real change in Britain.

:26:32. > :26:55.OK, back to Norman, who is with Jeremy Corbyn. By Mike Pence by

:26:56. > :27:00.much, Vic, a few stragglers coming out, Diane Abbott, your take on the

:27:01. > :27:05.result? It is a very good result, given that in many ways this was a

:27:06. > :27:09.nasty and bitter campaign, and last summer they threw everything except

:27:10. > :27:17.the kitchen sink at Jeremy, and he still increased his share of the

:27:18. > :27:20.vote. Widely used say that? Because the allegations, including

:27:21. > :27:24.anti-Semitism, very hurtful, we didn't get that last time. It was a

:27:25. > :27:28.hard campaign, but in the end I think the membership came out for

:27:29. > :27:33.Jeremy, because they realised he hadn't been given a chance and

:27:34. > :27:38.treated fairly. What do you say to those MPs who still refuse to get on

:27:39. > :27:43.board, refused to join in the front bench? First of all, they have to

:27:44. > :27:47.listen to their members. Many of Jeremy's most vociferous critics

:27:48. > :27:51.actually have the party to nominate a Jeremy, they have to listen to

:27:52. > :27:57.their members. They have to listen to Labour supporters. They wanted

:27:58. > :28:02.the party to unite and take the fight to the Tories. And if they

:28:03. > :28:13.don't, they should face the selection? Nobody is talking about

:28:14. > :28:17.the deselection, we are not going to hold what was said in a campaign

:28:18. > :28:26.against anybody, we want the party to unite. Why shouldn't local

:28:27. > :28:29.parties deselect Labour MPs who have been criticising a leader who has

:28:30. > :28:34.been overwhelmingly elected? Why shouldn't they get rid of those MPs?

:28:35. > :28:40.Clearly, because of the boundary changes, there will have to be some

:28:41. > :28:46.selections, but we don't want a purge, we don't want deselection, we

:28:47. > :28:51.want to come together, that is what the party once. What evidence is

:28:52. > :28:55.there that Mr Corbyn, beyond the rhetoric, is willing to put in place

:28:56. > :28:59.concrete measures to reassure those Labour MPs who are doubtful about

:29:00. > :29:03.him? What will he do beyond the talk? Look at what he has done, when

:29:04. > :29:09.he first put the Shadow Cabinet together, he had people who were

:29:10. > :29:12.Blairites and also from the left. He is willing to call on all the

:29:13. > :29:19.talents, and that is what is going to do this time. Diane Abbott, thank

:29:20. > :29:25.you for your time. Vic, back to you. Thank you very much, Norman, with us

:29:26. > :29:27.is Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, right-hand man to Jeremy Corbyn,

:29:28. > :29:33.congratulations to you and your team. Wipe the slate clean, does

:29:34. > :29:37.that mean calling off the dogs when it comes to those threats of

:29:38. > :29:41.deselecting MPs who may have criticised Mr Corbyn in recent

:29:42. > :29:46.months? We have never called on the dogs, we have never done that - we

:29:47. > :29:50.have made it clear repeatedly that we are not in favour of mandatory

:29:51. > :29:53.deselection, first of all. The boundary commission changes are

:29:54. > :29:57.coming up, we will fight them in Parliament and in the courts,

:29:58. > :30:02.because they are so grotesquely unfair. If they do go through, the

:30:03. > :30:06.rules that have always applied on the boundary commission changes will

:30:07. > :30:10.apply then, which is, if there is a sitting MP, they will have a right

:30:11. > :30:14.to the seat, basically. We are trying to reassure people all the

:30:15. > :30:19.time that all we want is unity and stability. Labour MPs who have been

:30:20. > :30:23.critical have nothing to worry about? Not at all, we have said its

:30:24. > :30:28.time and again, and I will repeat it now. The most important thing now is

:30:29. > :30:33.not the issue of deselection, it is about what role people want to play,

:30:34. > :30:38.front bench, backbench, if they do not feel they want to take a forward

:30:39. > :30:41.role, maybe they can on the backbench, like Yvette Cooper on

:30:42. > :30:46.refugees, brilliant, Caroline Flint and tax evasion. So there is a way

:30:47. > :30:51.in which we can accommodate everyone.

:30:52. > :30:58.Shadow Cabinet elections, yes? There will be a wider discussion. The key

:30:59. > :31:02.thing around issues of democratic change in the party, we had to make

:31:03. > :31:08.sure we do it by consensus, and if we had to take time to do it, let's

:31:09. > :31:12.do it properly. Western with changes in the Constitution of the Labour

:31:13. > :31:17.Party, there was a full constitution toe consultation. I think people

:31:18. > :31:21.want it and quickly rather than delaying it. Mr Corbyn could have

:31:22. > :31:25.bothered that in his acceptance speech. He did not want any

:31:26. > :31:29.accusations that he is bouncing anyone into any decisions at the

:31:30. > :31:32.moment. If he offered that, some people might oppose that and think

:31:33. > :31:39.their views are not being listened to all pre-empted. Does he see the

:31:40. > :31:46.idea of Shadow Cabinet elections, whether across-the-board or a third

:31:47. > :31:52.are elected by backbench MPs, as a way of gripping his wings, or not? I

:31:53. > :31:57.don't think so. I think the issue is what is the most appropriate way of

:31:58. > :32:02.getting the right representation, is that by appointment, or by-election?

:32:03. > :32:07.What sort of mandate should there be? That is at every level of the

:32:08. > :32:12.party, in terms of Shadow Cabinet and the NEC. Now you have had the

:32:13. > :32:20.second conference within just over 12 months, are you pleased, because

:32:21. > :32:23.it has strengthened Mr Corbyn's power. I did not wanted, I thought

:32:24. > :32:27.was a distraction. But now you know the mandate is bigger than a year

:32:28. > :32:32.ago... But it destructed us for about three months when we should be

:32:33. > :32:37.in the face of the Tories as an opposition -- but it distracted us.

:32:38. > :32:41.Jeremy has an increased mandate. I think the appeal for unity will

:32:42. > :32:48.work. Some of the issues which came out of the debate on policy, really

:32:49. > :32:53.no difference. The most common expression used by Owen was, I agree

:32:54. > :33:00.with Jeremy, which is good. Let's learn from criticism. We say to

:33:01. > :33:06.people, come and talk to us. Has any Labour MP said, I want to chat with

:33:07. > :33:12.you? Yes. Who? I don't want to put people on the spot and they don't

:33:13. > :33:17.want any division. We have to come together. Clearly, you are saying

:33:18. > :33:24.MPs are coming to you privately and saying, we want to come back into

:33:25. > :33:29.the fold? A number of people have said -- I want to do my best, here

:33:30. > :33:35.is the policy I'm interested in, can I perform the role. Somebody like

:33:36. > :33:40.Hilary Benn would be welcomed back? Yes, he is incredibly talented, we

:33:41. > :33:43.have worked together for a number of years, he was a local councillor

:33:44. > :33:48.just outside my constituency for many years. We have always got

:33:49. > :33:53.along. Ed Miliband on Twitter, congratulations to Jeremy on his

:33:54. > :34:01.victory, commiserations to Owen. Now is the time for the party to unite

:34:02. > :34:04.and focus on the country. Stephen Kinnock, congratulations to Jeremy

:34:05. > :34:13.Corbyn, time to unite the party and set out a vision and a gender to

:34:14. > :34:24.unite the country. How can you attract Conservative and Ukip photos

:34:25. > :34:28.to win an election? Jeremy said the first campaign next Saturday, which

:34:29. > :34:32.they will be leafleting on the streets about, will be on the issues

:34:33. > :34:38.of education segregation, that is what grammar schools. That is

:34:39. > :34:42.uniting the party. If you look at housing, the one thing facing people

:34:43. > :34:45.right the way across the country is being able to afford a roof over

:34:46. > :34:49.their heads, having their children able to have access to the housing

:34:50. > :34:54.market. All of those issues that came up in the leadership campaign

:34:55. > :35:00.are election winners for us. If we unite, because people will not vote

:35:01. > :35:04.for a divided party, it is a truism, if we get out there with the

:35:05. > :35:15.selection vehicle we have ever had, the largest political party in

:35:16. > :35:18.Europe, we will have members on virtually every street corner to act

:35:19. > :35:21.as ambassadors for us and argue our case, I think there is a chance to

:35:22. > :35:24.win it whenever it comes. Do you expect it earlier than 2020? I have

:35:25. > :35:29.never trusted Tories anyway, but I don't trust this even more. I think

:35:30. > :35:34.she will go early, if she stays in power over the next 18 months, two

:35:35. > :35:39.years, the Tories will rip themselves apart on Brexit yet

:35:40. > :35:43.again. What do you say to the Labour voters in heartlands, the north-east

:35:44. > :35:48.of England in particular, who voted to leave the European Union? They

:35:49. > :35:55.are really anxious about freedom of movement of people. You will address

:35:56. > :35:58.it, in what way? It is part of the debate that we will have. The Brexit

:35:59. > :36:02.vote has taken place, we have to respect that. We had to respect the

:36:03. > :36:07.result of the referendum. We will look at creating a new Europe,

:36:08. > :36:12.working with our European partners. They want an end to freedom of

:36:13. > :36:18.movement. Let's see what the problems were, was that people

:36:19. > :36:22.coming here undercutting wages, the pressure on public services? We want

:36:23. > :36:28.the benefits of the old EU and to tackle some of the perceived this

:36:29. > :36:31.benefits, I think we can do that. Thank you for your time, Shadow

:36:32. > :36:35.Chancellor John McDonnell. The message to everybody we have spoken

:36:36. > :36:43.to is that the Labour Party must unite. I think we will talk to

:36:44. > :36:47.Norman now? Sorry, I beg your pardon, we will speak to Patrick

:36:48. > :36:52.McLoughin, the Conservative Party Chairman. Thank you for your

:36:53. > :36:55.patience, how do you react to the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn? What

:36:56. > :37:01.will hang around the Labour Party as long as Jeremy Corbyn is leader is

:37:02. > :37:06.that 172 of his members of Parliament don't think he is

:37:07. > :37:11.competent enough to run his party. Let alone run the government. That

:37:12. > :37:17.is our message, my message. The Labour Party is split, the Labour

:37:18. > :37:23.Party itself says Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to lead it. Also, all the

:37:24. > :37:27.former leaders of the Labour Party had said that Jeremy Corbyn is not

:37:28. > :37:34.the right person to lead the party and cannot be a good Prime Minister

:37:35. > :37:38.of this country. Not all of his policies are unpalatable to the

:37:39. > :37:45.wider electorate. A majority support taking railways back into public

:37:46. > :37:49.ownership, for example. We will have those debates over the coming months

:37:50. > :37:54.and years. The simple fact about the railways is we have more people

:37:55. > :37:58.using the railways now than ever, that is because of the competition

:37:59. > :38:04.brought about by franchising the railway system. That may be true,

:38:05. > :38:09.but the majority no support nationalisation. Mr Corbyn is

:38:10. > :38:13.championing bat. It is not just about the railways, we will take

:38:14. > :38:17.Jeremy Corbyn on. The point he is making, if he manages to former

:38:18. > :38:21.Shadow Cabinet. In the last leadership election he said the last

:38:22. > :38:27.Labour Government did not spend enough. He says he wants to stop

:38:28. > :38:30.freedoms we have given to schools. We will be making those points and

:38:31. > :38:35.getting on with governing the country.

:38:36. > :38:40.You will have heard Mr Corbyn in his speech earlier say that he is

:38:41. > :38:45.launching a campaign next week about education segregation, against your

:38:46. > :38:50.policy, Theresa May's policy, of reintroducing selection for some

:38:51. > :38:56.grammar schools. In our schools who have a diverse system of schools,

:38:57. > :39:01.academies concentrating on sport, once concentrating on music. I think

:39:02. > :39:05.it is right that we have them but concentrate on academic ability,

:39:06. > :39:09.too. I welcome having up to date. When the Labour Party was in

:39:10. > :39:13.Government for 30 years they allowed grammar schools to continue in

:39:14. > :39:18.certain parts of the country. We saw expansions of grammar schools given

:39:19. > :39:25.the go-ahead by the government. I want to see more people getting the

:39:26. > :39:29.opportunity of a diverse education system so they get what best suits

:39:30. > :39:33.that child. That is the most important thing when discussing the

:39:34. > :39:39.education system, what is best for the pupils, what is best so they can

:39:40. > :39:45.compete in a very competitive world and the environment. When will you

:39:46. > :39:49.have a Brexit plan? The Prime Minister and his senior colleagues

:39:50. > :39:54.are working on the Brexit plan. We will have more to say in due course.

:39:55. > :40:00.When will you have it? In due course... This year, next year? The

:40:01. > :40:04.Prime Minister has said that article 50 will not be triggered before the

:40:05. > :40:09.end of the year, when she has more to say she will let you know.

:40:10. > :40:14.Theresa May has also said she will not call an early general election,

:40:15. > :40:19.will she stick with that? Yes. There are no plans at all for any early

:40:20. > :40:26.general election. We have a fixed term parliament until 2020, when the

:40:27. > :40:29.general election will be. Thank you very much, Patrick

:40:30. > :40:34.McLoughin, chairman of the Conservative Party. Let's talk to

:40:35. > :40:38.two MPs, Kate Green, chair of the Owen Smith campaign, and you still

:40:39. > :40:44.had a smile on your face, and Chris Maddison, who voted for Owen Smith.

:40:45. > :40:48.Hello. Why did you vote for him? I think there was a feeling within the

:40:49. > :40:53.party that Jeremy's abilities had not shone through, they were rather

:40:54. > :40:56.limited, and if we were going to take on the Tories, we wanted to

:40:57. > :41:01.take the fight to a different level. Owen offered that, certainly when we

:41:02. > :41:06.saw his performances within Parliament. What do you think now

:41:07. > :41:12.you have made to Jeremy Corbyn even stronger? May be, that Jeremy has

:41:13. > :41:18.helped himself. It had Theresa May on toast over her plans to bring

:41:19. > :41:22.back grammar schools and secondary moderns, so he is improving his

:41:23. > :41:28.performance. How do you feel about the results? It is a good victory

:41:29. > :41:33.for Jeremy Corbyn, we congratulate him. We are very pleased that almost

:41:34. > :41:39.200,000 people have voted for Owen, that is a big vote, bigger than the

:41:40. > :41:45.three candidates who stood against Jeremy last year put together. We

:41:46. > :41:49.are very anxious that Jeremy should carry forward on the speech that he

:41:50. > :41:54.gave just after the result was announced, to unite the whole of the

:41:55. > :41:58.party and started to take the fight to the Tories, that is what we are

:41:59. > :42:03.prioritising. Do you think the onus is on Labour MPs critical of Mr

:42:04. > :42:14.Corbyn to rally round, all Mr Corbyn to offer olive branches? There is a

:42:15. > :42:18.genuine desire for unity. We have been scoring some really good hits

:42:19. > :42:22.on the Tories, people want to build on McDonnell sites. I will hope that

:42:23. > :42:26.both sides come together and we find a way forward, it is absolutely

:42:27. > :42:30.possible. Will you look me in the eye and tell me that, having been

:42:31. > :42:34.critical of Mr Corbyn and voting for Owen Smith, you know thing, because

:42:35. > :42:39.he has been re-elected a second time, that he can win a general

:42:40. > :42:46.election? I am looking you in the eye, he has improved his

:42:47. > :42:48.performances in the last couple of weeks. He creamed Theresa May in

:42:49. > :42:52.Prime Minister's Questions last week, she had no responses to any of

:42:53. > :42:56.his questions. I think we can come together and fight? I think it is

:42:57. > :42:59.entirely possible we can win the next general election. It is

:43:00. > :43:04.absolutely essential that we'd unite and fight the next general election.

:43:05. > :43:08.My constituents and people across the country need to see a Labour

:43:09. > :43:13.Government. The leadership campaign has been about making sure we are a

:43:14. > :43:18.credible party of opposition and a Government in waiting. With Jeremy

:43:19. > :43:22.re-elected, that needs to be the priority. This you need to change

:43:23. > :43:32.the way he performs, behaves? Include his MPs? In order to win the

:43:33. > :43:36.next election? For parties to win general elections, to win any

:43:37. > :43:43.elections, we had to be united, purposeful and focused. Do you think

:43:44. > :43:47.Jeremy Corbyn is seen as a Prime Minister in waiting by the wider

:43:48. > :43:51.electorate? First and foremost we need a united and effective

:43:52. > :43:54.opposition, that is the first priority, four years out from the

:43:55. > :43:59.general election if Theresa May is to be taken at her word. That builds

:44:00. > :44:03.us back on the road to taking power. It is crucial we are on that road,

:44:04. > :44:09.people need a Labour Government. We will not do that if the RA divided

:44:10. > :44:14.party. It is incumbent on all members and the leader to work

:44:15. > :44:19.together and get the message across. We have a statement from Owen Smith.

:44:20. > :44:23.I would like to read, if I may. I want to congratulate Jeremy Corbyn

:44:24. > :44:26.on his clear win in this leadership contest. There is no doubt that the

:44:27. > :44:30.Labour Party has changed into his leadership. He has mobilised huge

:44:31. > :44:34.numbers of people over last 12 months, many of whom are at

:44:35. > :44:38.Conference in Liverpool, and he deserves the credit for that and by

:44:39. > :44:42.winning so decisively. I am humbled by the more than 193,000 members,

:44:43. > :44:54.supporters and trade union members who have put their faith in

:44:55. > :44:59.me and to say a big thank you to them. It has been a privilege to

:45:00. > :45:02.meet so many of you who have given so much of your lives to Labour, and

:45:03. > :45:05.I promise to continue to work for what we believe in. It has been a

:45:06. > :45:07.great honour for me to stand as leader and I am deeply grateful to

:45:08. > :45:10.my Parliamentary colleagues for nominating me. I entered the race

:45:11. > :45:12.because they did not think Jeremy was providing the leadership we

:45:13. > :45:15.needed and because I think we must renew the party to win back voters'

:45:16. > :45:19.trust and respect. I will respect the results, reflect carefully on it

:45:20. > :45:23.and what role I might play in future to help Labour win again for the

:45:24. > :45:28.British people. He made it clear he would not serve in Jeremy Corbyn's

:45:29. > :45:33.Shadow Cabinet. That is interesting. The statement continues. I have no

:45:34. > :45:35.time for talk of a split in the Labour that. That is also

:45:36. > :45:49.interesting because he predicted that is what would happen. It is

:45:50. > :45:51.Labour or nothing for me. Although today's results shows that our

:45:52. > :45:53.movement remains divided, it now falls primarily to Jeremy Corbyn as

:45:54. > :45:56.Labour leader to heal the divisions and unite the movement. We have to

:45:57. > :45:58.turned down our dire opinion poll ratings and take down this Tory

:45:59. > :46:01.Government. Jeremy has won the contest, he has to in the country

:46:02. > :46:03.and will have my support. What do you make of that, chair of the Owen

:46:04. > :46:13.Smith campaign? The old amateur study Labour Party

:46:14. > :46:19.and leadership is that we have to get into power. -- the ultimate test

:46:20. > :46:23.of. We were not on track to do that before or during this summer, and

:46:24. > :46:27.now we have to concentrate all our resources and effort on making sure

:46:28. > :46:31.we are on a party on track to power, and the leader of our party, Jeremy

:46:32. > :46:37.Corbyn, has to spearhead of that attack. Owen Smith? And all the

:46:38. > :46:40.people who have supported his campaign, and we are very proud of

:46:41. > :46:44.all the people who have supported him, we need to support Jeremy in

:46:45. > :46:48.that endeavour and we will, but there are different ways of serving,

:46:49. > :46:52.and Owen has been saying that he needs some time to reflect what best

:46:53. > :46:57.his contribution can be, but I am very clear, having worked with Owen

:46:58. > :47:01.over the summer, having seen how he has been campaigned, that he has an

:47:02. > :47:07.enormous amount to offer our movement, and he will offer it.

:47:08. > :47:13.Thank you for your time. Let's talk to Andy Gill, in Castleford market

:47:14. > :47:19.in Yorkshire. Hello, Andy. Yes, this is a solid Labour seat,

:47:20. > :47:23.part of Yvette Cooper's seat, of course. I have with me Michael

:47:24. > :47:32.Miller, a politics student, who campaigned for Owen Smith, a member

:47:33. > :47:36.of Leeds Were meant. What is your reaction to the result? It is hugely

:47:37. > :47:39.disappointing but not surprising given recent polls. Look, I

:47:40. > :47:44.campaigned for Owen Smith because I think Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable.

:47:45. > :47:49.But you have to respect he has been given a huge renewed mandate today.

:47:50. > :47:53.We all have to respect that, including the members of the PLP,

:47:54. > :47:57.and that means getting behind the leadership, even if you do not agree

:47:58. > :48:01.with him, saying, we need to come together because the Conservative

:48:02. > :48:05.Party is is a ruling in a really hard right away, and the official

:48:06. > :48:10.opposition is needed more than ever, I think. So you will get behind

:48:11. > :48:14.Jeremy Corbyn, how many Owen Smith supporters, that part of the Labour

:48:15. > :48:18.Party, will do the same? I think the vast majority will, both because the

:48:19. > :48:22.Labour Party has always been a broad church of opinion, and it will

:48:23. > :48:26.remain like that, and there is nowhere to go. People are suggesting

:48:27. > :48:33.a split might happen, but it will not, primarily because of the weak

:48:34. > :48:36.options, only eight Lib Dem MPs, that is not a viable party for

:48:37. > :48:39.Govan. The Labour Party is the only one that can win against the

:48:40. > :48:44.Conservative Party. -- for government. What would you like to

:48:45. > :48:49.see Jeremy Corbyn doing now to make Labour attractive to the wider

:48:50. > :48:56.electorate to my he needs to dismiss ideas that deselection at MPs could

:48:57. > :49:00.happen. This idea that we should do that should be dismissed. At the

:49:01. > :49:05.same time, his media strategy needs to improve, and he needs to start

:49:06. > :49:09.talking to the wider electorate. There is a lot of focus on Momentum

:49:10. > :49:14.members and their ideas, but even though we have a huge electorate,

:49:15. > :49:20.and that is really good, a great big membership, it doesn't translate

:49:21. > :49:23.into election winning results. Richard of Momentum Leeds, do you

:49:24. > :49:28.agree? Does Jeremy Corbyn need to change things to appeal to people? I

:49:29. > :49:31.would not say to appeal to people, the policies we are going forward

:49:32. > :49:36.with will appeal to the people that we need to appeal to. People who

:49:37. > :49:40.stopped voting Labour for whatever reason. We are of the opinion that

:49:41. > :49:43.what we need to do is make sure that their lives improve, and that means

:49:44. > :49:50.policies that help them, going back to what the Labour Party was. But

:49:51. > :49:54.can Corbyn have that wider appeal? I fundamentally believe he can, the

:49:55. > :49:59.fact that he has been elected and increased the party membership to

:50:00. > :50:03.over 500,000 people shows an appeal. We can look at the four past

:50:04. > :50:09.by-elections the Labour Party has won, council elections from a high

:50:10. > :50:12.water mark in May. Four mayoral elections, it is very clear that we

:50:13. > :50:16.can appeal, and I am not so sure that the people who keep arguing

:50:17. > :50:22.that we cannot actually looking at the evidence. Richard, Michael, back

:50:23. > :50:28.to you, Victoria. Thank you, we have got two gentleman

:50:29. > :50:32.here from two different unions, Tim Roach, general secretary of the GMB,

:50:33. > :50:38.they backed Alan Smith, and Mick Whelan of Aslef, they backed Mr

:50:39. > :50:42.Corbyn. Both of you, hello, this reaction from Nigel Farage on

:50:43. > :50:48.Twitter, Jeremy Corbyn's re-election is great news for Ukip. Is it? I

:50:49. > :50:50.think it is great news for working people, a resounding victory, I

:50:51. > :50:55.think he has a mandate for the second time in less than 12 months,

:50:56. > :51:00.he won in every constituency of the Labour Party, that is important. Now

:51:01. > :51:02.it is time for the party to unite behind the democratically elected

:51:03. > :51:06.leader and give working people of this country what they deserve. The

:51:07. > :51:12.reason we have seen the rise of Ukip is because Labour has been

:51:13. > :51:17.infighting and contemplating our own navel. Perhaps Labour has nothing to

:51:18. > :51:20.say about managed migration, which is a worry for some working-class

:51:21. > :51:26.supporters who naturally vote Labour. Clearly, we need to look at

:51:27. > :51:31.the free movement of Labour, but from an economic point of view, not

:51:32. > :51:35.just social. Yes, it has an impact on workers and jobs, but it is not

:51:36. > :51:49.about Polish people undercutting wage rates it is for some voters.

:51:50. > :51:53.But it isn't. It is! You need to look at the last Labour manifesto,

:51:54. > :51:57.there were things in there about paying the right rate for the job,

:51:58. > :52:03.not bringing people into undercut wages, which has gone a long way

:52:04. > :52:06.to... A manifesto rejected by the wider electorate, I am talking about

:52:07. > :52:11.Jeremy Corbyn having a message that resonates with Labour voters when it

:52:12. > :52:17.comes to immigration. I think he does and he will, it is a work in

:52:18. > :52:20.progress. Without this distraction of the leadership election, we would

:52:21. > :52:25.have had these policies developed. We have a new leader of the Tory

:52:26. > :52:29.party that has not been elected by the electorate, and they are in

:52:30. > :52:33.difficult places over Brexit. The whole political movement, nobody is

:52:34. > :52:36.expecting Brexiter happen, nobody had a fallback position, nobody

:52:37. > :52:43.realised what they were going to have to do. -- nobody expected

:52:44. > :52:48.Brexit to happen. We cannot understate the fact that Theresa May

:52:49. > :52:51.has not been elected by the country, she was elected by less people than

:52:52. > :52:56.will be at Labour Party conference this week. What we have seen with

:52:57. > :52:59.the Conservatives is the Business Secretary having a go at big

:53:00. > :53:03.business, the Health Secretary having a go at doctors, a Foreign

:53:04. > :53:09.Secretary who does not like foreigners - that is the state this

:53:10. > :53:13.country is in under the Tories. We need to unite and Jeremy Corbyn, and

:53:14. > :53:16.we will be holding the Tories to account and showing what work people

:53:17. > :53:21.need. You didn't backed Jeremy Corbyn in this contest, for whatever

:53:22. > :53:25.reasons you didn't, and now you are saying, we are backing him, he's

:53:26. > :53:31.good enough at all. That is not going to win through with some

:53:32. > :53:37.people. The reality is Jeremy's words today resonate. There has been

:53:38. > :53:40.an election, sometimes it got fractures, sometimes people say

:53:41. > :53:44.things they don't mean, but now we come together to do the job of the

:53:45. > :53:47.Labour Party, to provide a government in the future. And in the

:53:48. > :53:51.interim, provide a viable opposition. What you say to the

:53:52. > :53:56.Labour MPs who have opposed their boss over a number of months?

:53:57. > :53:59.Something they may face deselection because of the forthcoming boundary

:54:00. > :54:05.review, an opportunity for Mr Corbyn and his allies to select pro Corbyn

:54:06. > :54:10.Parliamentary candidates, or they may think they will face defeat, so

:54:11. > :54:14.they might as well agitate and organise? We need to change the

:54:15. > :54:18.culture of the debate entirely. This isn't about whether you are for or

:54:19. > :54:22.against Jeremy Corbyn, and I'm talking from the perspective of

:54:23. > :54:26.trade Unions, the PLP and MPs. It is no longer about supporting Jeremy

:54:27. > :54:30.Corbyn or not. It is about whether you want a Labour Party that will

:54:31. > :54:34.hold the Tories to account, a Labour Party that will take us directory,

:54:35. > :54:39.and start working on behalf of working people. Jeremy Corbyn has a

:54:40. > :54:46.mandate to do that, anybody who is dissenting from that is not about

:54:47. > :54:51.Jeremy Corbyn, it is about and the Labour Party. The first thing we

:54:52. > :54:53.should be doing is campaigning and overturning the gerrymandering of

:54:54. > :54:58.the boundary changes. Gerrymandering? It is quite simple,

:54:59. > :55:02.they are based on figures that are out of date, two million people have

:55:03. > :55:06.been taken off the electoral role because of Tory processes, so the

:55:07. > :55:11.figures and the selection process is now incorrect and it needs to be

:55:12. > :55:14.revisited. Where is the gerrymandering? They are going ahead

:55:15. > :55:23.with it knowing that the figures are incorrect, and the whole ethos was

:55:24. > :55:25.cutting the cost of politics, whereas at the same time they are

:55:26. > :55:28.putting more people into the House of Lords, and costs will get

:55:29. > :55:34.greater. Thank you both very much for your time, Tim Roche of the GMB,

:55:35. > :55:39.and Michael Whelan of Aslef. Here is Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London's

:55:40. > :55:42.reaction, congratulations to Jeremy, who has won the support of members

:55:43. > :55:46.and supporters. The important thing is for the party to pull together

:55:47. > :55:51.and focus on winning the next general election. He was an Owen

:55:52. > :55:57.Smith supporter. Norman, that is the message from absolutely everybody,

:55:58. > :56:01.the Labour Party has to unite. No surprise, after a leadership

:56:02. > :56:04.contest, of course people will say unity, unity, unity, you wouldn't

:56:05. > :56:09.say anything else. Your wife asks, is this dress nice, of course you

:56:10. > :56:14.say yes, you have to! This is a party that, this result shows, is

:56:15. > :56:18.deeply divided over the issue of Mr Corbyn. Yes, he attracts a lot of

:56:19. > :56:24.buzz of support, but a lot of people are deeply uncomfortable his

:56:25. > :56:27.leadership. The one thing we can get from today is that Jeremy Corbyn is

:56:28. > :56:31.politically bombproof until the next election. The idea of further

:56:32. > :56:35.leadership challenges is for the birds, there is no way his critics

:56:36. > :56:39.can credibly mount a challenge against him, who will be their

:56:40. > :56:44.candidate? Been beaten twice, Mr Corbyn has increased the size of the

:56:45. > :56:47.party, brought in 40,000 new members, they tried to stop him

:56:48. > :56:51.getting on the ballot paper and failed, and in fact he has increased

:56:52. > :56:55.his majority. The one fact we get from today is Jeremy Corbyn will

:56:56. > :56:59.lead the Labour Party into the next general election, for better or

:57:00. > :57:03.worse. OK, thank you very much, thank you, Norman Smith. As you may

:57:04. > :57:06.have gathered, Jeremy Corbyn is still leader of the Labour Party,

:57:07. > :57:12.with a bigger mandate than a year ago. In a moment, the news is coming

:57:13. > :57:17.up on BBC One. We will leave you with a look back at events this

:57:18. > :57:23.morning here at the Labour conference in Liverpool. Have a good

:57:24. > :57:27.afternoon. Please welcome the 2060 leadership candidates, Jeremy Corbyn

:57:28. > :57:36.and Owen Smith. The votes cast for each candidate are as follows.

:57:37. > :57:50.Jeremy Corbyn, 313,000... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:57:51. > :57:57.Owen Smith, 190 3000. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:57:58. > :58:01.Conference, I am delighted to declare Jeremy Corbyn is elected as

:58:02. > :58:16.leader of the Labour Party... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:58:17. > :58:24.I want to thank the more than 300,000 supporters who have given me

:58:25. > :58:28.their support and trust in this Labour leadership election. I am

:58:29. > :58:33.honoured to have won the votes of the majority of members, affiliated

:58:34. > :58:37.supporters, and registered supporters. They have given me the

:58:38. > :58:46.second mandate any year to lead our party. -- in a year.

:58:47. > :58:51.# And put your hands where I can see them

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:59:00. > :59:01.'The greatest players on Earth compete