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| Harman urges MPs to work with new leader | Harman urges MPs to work with new leader |
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| Labour MPs must "work with" whoever is elected leader later this week, Harriet Harman has said. | Labour MPs must "work with" whoever is elected leader later this week, Harriet Harman has said. |
| The party's acting leader said Labour had to rebuild with an effective opposition leader and also someone who was "electable" as prime minister. | The party's acting leader said Labour had to rebuild with an effective opposition leader and also someone who was "electable" as prime minister. |
| Leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn remains the frontrunner ahead of Saturday's poll. | Leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn remains the frontrunner ahead of Saturday's poll. |
| Ms Harman said she was "absolutely confident" the result would be legally sound, with Labour having weeded out 4,000 people not entitled to vote. | Ms Harman said she was "absolutely confident" the result would be legally sound, with Labour having weeded out 4,000 people not entitled to vote. |
| 'Valid' process | 'Valid' process |
| Ms Harman told the BBC's Andrew Marr show Labour had conducted "due diligence" on the thousands of non-party members who have paid £3 to register to vote and blocked people deemed to be infiltrators from rival parties or organisations from taking part. | |
| Whoever is elected on Saturday would be a "valid" winner, she said, with more than 500,000 people having taken part in the contest. | Whoever is elected on Saturday would be a "valid" winner, she said, with more than 500,000 people having taken part in the contest. |
| Several leading frontbenchers have said they will not serve under Mr Corbyn's leadership while others have said the veteran MP will take Labour in the wrong direction on the economy, Europe and in foreign affairs. | |
| Ms Harman, who will step down from frontline politics on Saturday, said she remained "scrupulously neutral" in the contest, in which Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall are also standing. | |
| And she suggested that the party would have to rally round Mr Corbyn if he won. | And she suggested that the party would have to rally round Mr Corbyn if he won. |
| "Obviously we want a Labour leader who is going to be an effective leader of the opposition and a prime minister," she said. | "Obviously we want a Labour leader who is going to be an effective leader of the opposition and a prime minister," she said. |
| "Whoever is chosen, we will all need to be working with to get ourselves electable." | "Whoever is chosen, we will all need to be working with to get ourselves electable." |
| Labour leadership contest | Labour leadership contest |
| She added: "We have to have our principles and policies but we also have to win the support of the public and understand why we did not get elected last time." | |
| Ms Cooper said she was "fighting for every vote", suggesting that up to 50% of Labour members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters had yet to make up their mind. | Ms Cooper said she was "fighting for every vote", suggesting that up to 50% of Labour members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters had yet to make up their mind. |
| Insisting that the choice they made "would affect the next ten years", she told Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News that she offered a "clear alternative" to the Conservatives but also to Mr Corbyn who she said would "return Labour to the 1970s and 1980s". | Insisting that the choice they made "would affect the next ten years", she told Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News that she offered a "clear alternative" to the Conservatives but also to Mr Corbyn who she said would "return Labour to the 1970s and 1980s". |
| "It is not enough to be angry at the world, we have to change the world," she said. "We have to have radical ideas for the future but to be credible enough to put them into place." | "It is not enough to be angry at the world, we have to change the world," she said. "We have to have radical ideas for the future but to be credible enough to put them into place." |
| She added: "There are so many people who depend on Labour and we will be letting them down if we rip this chance up." | She added: "There are so many people who depend on Labour and we will be letting them down if we rip this chance up." |
| Speaking on Andrew Marr, Chancellor George Osborne's said the momentum behind Mr Corbyn's campaign was "a symptom not the cause" of Labour's problems. | Speaking on Andrew Marr, Chancellor George Osborne's said the momentum behind Mr Corbyn's campaign was "a symptom not the cause" of Labour's problems. |
| He suggested Labour had, for some time, been moving "sharply to the left" and, as a result, there was a "big responsibility" for the Conservatives to represent working people. | He suggested Labour had, for some time, been moving "sharply to the left" and, as a result, there was a "big responsibility" for the Conservatives to represent working people. |