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| Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign team has mistakenly issued a list singling out 13 Labour MPs it claims have abused the leader and his allies, triggering a new row in the party. | Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign team has mistakenly issued a list singling out 13 Labour MPs it claims have abused the leader and his allies, triggering a new row in the party. |
| The list, first reported by Press Association, named deputy leader Tom Watson, Jess Phillips and Tristram Hunt as among those who have engaged in behaviour to undermine Corbyn. | The list, first reported by Press Association, named deputy leader Tom Watson, Jess Phillips and Tristram Hunt as among those who have engaged in behaviour to undermine Corbyn. |
| It emerged before the last televised leadership hustings between Corbyn and his challenger, Owen Smith. During the hustings, shown on Sky News, Corbyn dismissed the criticism. | |
| He said: “There was information put out there which is statements that colleagues made on the record and it’s all stuff that is out there on the public record.” | |
| Leadership rival Owen Smith attacked the Labour leader over the “divisive” dossier. “That isn’t unifying,” he said. “That is deeply divisive and frankly, it’s where you began the contest by talking about de-selection.” | |
| In the release issued by the Corbyn camp, Smith was accused of being the “real disunity candidate”, who has failed to tackle abuse meted out by his own supporters, and said party members are being made to feel “profoundly unwelcome”. | In the release issued by the Corbyn camp, Smith was accused of being the “real disunity candidate”, who has failed to tackle abuse meted out by his own supporters, and said party members are being made to feel “profoundly unwelcome”. |
| It highlighted the behaviour of a number of Labour MPs, including Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Diane Abbott to “fuck off”, Hunt for describing Labour as “in the shit” and John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a “fucking disaster”. | |
| Watson was highlighted for calling the grassroots Corbyn campaign Momentum a “rabble”, while Smith was named for appearing to describe the leader as a “lunatic”. The others identified were Ian Austin, Neil Coyle, Ben Bradshaw, Frank Field, Anna Turley, Jamie Reed, Karl Turner, Stephen Kinnock and Tom Blenkinsop. | |
| It is understood a complaint about bullying has been made to Rosie Winterton, the Labour chief whip, about the criticism of some of the party’s MPs. | It is understood a complaint about bullying has been made to Rosie Winterton, the Labour chief whip, about the criticism of some of the party’s MPs. |
| A spokesman for Watson said: “Tom Watson has received an apology from [press aide] James Mills on behalf of the junior press officer in Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign team who released this list by mistake.” | A spokesman for Watson said: “Tom Watson has received an apology from [press aide] James Mills on behalf of the junior press officer in Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign team who released this list by mistake.” |
| Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, who was among those criticised, said he was fuming. “Desperate, trial by troll, victim-culture claims from an anonymous source backing Corbyn this eve,” he said. |