Frontrunner ends three-month leadership campaign by promising to strengthen Labour movement if elected leader on SaturdayJeremy Corbyn avoided any hint that he might gain won the Labour leadership contest when he addressed a packed rally in north London,the 99th and final event of his three-month campaign.
The speakers preceding him – MPs who had nominated him for the leadership contest, a union leader, and his campaign team,party members from his Islington North constituency – prefaced their speeches on Thursday night with references such as “win or lose, it has been a triumph” or “not to count any chickens yet”. But there was a palpable sense in the corridor, and an expectation,that he has in fact won and that this was what will be announced at a special party conference around lunchtime on Saturday.
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Source: theguardian.com