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Welsh Labour unity plea as party names new leader Welsh Labour unity plea as Jeremy Corbyn crowned leader
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Welsh Labour has been urged to unite behind its new UK leader as left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is seen as the favourite to win the contest on Saturday. Welsh Labour has been urged to unite behind Jeremy Corbyn following his election as the party's new UK leader.
Some Labour figures have vowed not to serve in his shadow cabinet if he wins. The left-winger - initially seen as the rank outsider - saw a surge in support to beat his more mainstream rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
Blaenau Gwent AM Alun Davies, who backed Andy Burnham, said: "You can't fight an election and then complain about the result," claiming Mr Corbyn would have a "mandate to lead". Some Labour figures had vowed not to serve in a Corbyn shadow cabinet.
Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall are also hoping to succeed Ed Miliband. But Blaenau Gwent AM Alun Davies, who backed Mr Burnham, said: "You can't fight an election and then complain about the result."
Mr Davies, a former Welsh government minister, told BBC Wales: "If Jeremy Corbyn wins, he wins; he's got a mandate to lead and we have to respect that. It's time to move on." Mr Corbyn was declared the winner of the contest to succeed Ed Miliband at a special Labour party event in London on Saturday, with Tom Watson elected to serve as his deputy.
Pontypridd AM Mick Antoniw, a supporter of Mr Corbyn, conceded it would "difficult at the moment" for the left-winger to win a general election. Live coverage and reaction to the Labour leadership result
But he claimed that could change over time as Mr Corbyn had his "finger on the pulse of public disengagement and dissatisfaction with politics". Reacting for the Conservatives, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said on Twitter: "Welsh Labour finally have a UK leader in its mould - [they] have banned Free Schools, Academies, Right to Buy. Wales already a test bed for Corbynism."
However, Mr Corbyn may also need to win over some of his Labour colleagues, given his criticism of Nato and opposition to renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said Mr Corbyn's election would do nothing to change "Labour's terrible record in government in Wales."
Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon said: "I disagree with Jeremy's foreign policy and defence policy. She added: "Plaid Cymru congratulates Jeremy Corbyn on his election.
"That's a conversation we will have to have and I think it's going to be a difficult conversation." "We hope that he will now deliver the votes of his MPs to join Plaid Cymru MPs in opposing those Tory policies that are causing great harm to people in Wales and beyond.
"However, his election cannot alter Labour's dismal record in government in Wales. Their legacy, especially since devolution is one of failure and managed decline."
'Credibility and coherence''Credibility and coherence'
Labour peer and party historian Lord Kenneth O. Morgan told BBC Radio Wales he did not cast a vote as he found the three mainstream candidates "extremely uninspiring". Mr Davies, a former Welsh government minister, told BBC Wales in advance of the result that Mr Corbyn would have "a mandate to lead and we have to respect that".
He said support for Mr Corbyn was "extraordinary" and "a rather desperate throw", for someone who would have to prove he can "adjust himself to the party process, to the way politics is done". Also speaking before the result, Labour peer and party historian Lord Kenneth O. Morgan told BBC Radio Wales support for Mr Corbyn was "extraordinary" and "a rather desperate throw".
"Jeremy Corbyn says there will be a completely different kind of politics, with policy coming up from the grass roots, but what you also want is credibility and coherence, and we'll have to see whether he supplies it," he said. He said an MP who had been a rebellious backbencher throughout his years in Parliament would have to prove he can "adjust himself to the party process, to the way politics is done".
With assembly elections in May 2016, the Welsh party is watching the result closely as it seeks to retain power. "Jeremy Corbyn says there will be a completely different kind of politics, with policy coming up from the grassroots," he said.
Baroness Eluned Morgan, a former Euro-MP who hopes to stand for the assembly in 2016, said Welsh Labour should seek greater freedom regardless of who became leader. "But what you also want is credibility and coherence, and we'll have to see whether he supplies it."
She tweeted: "Whatever the result Labour Wales should do its own thing + become more autonomous from the party centrally. Analysis by Nick Servini, BBC Wales political editor
"Vital if we want to win in May." So how will Jeremy Corbyn's victory go down in the only part of the UK where there's a devolved Labour government?
First Minister Carwyn Jones - who did not meet Mr Corbyn during the leadership campaign - is due to return from an official visit to Japan later on Saturday. A number of senior figures in Wales have been telling me privately how concerned they are about the implications for the assembly election in 2016.
In August he said Mr Corbyn would be "an unusual choice" for party leader, although he did not say which of the contenders he preferred. Above all it will be a judgment of the record of Carwyn Jones' government, but the fear among many is that a Corbyn win will make it easier for opponents to challenge in marginal seats like the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Clwyd and Cardiff North, where the Tories performed well in the general election but which are held by Labour in the assembly.
The result will be announced at a Labour Party event in central London at about 11:30 BST. And will Welsh Labour MPs unite behind the new leader? The jury is still out.
One told me there is a tendency to catastrophise about a party that is surprisingly resilient, while another told me how hard he would find it to be loyal to a man who has rebelled so often in the past.
And what about the new party members who joined up because of Corbyn? They've been as visible in Wales as elsewhere.
Their big hope is that the new leader drags the centre ground of British politics to where they believe it should be - to the left.