Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn arrives to hear the result of the contest
After three months of campaigning in one of the most fiery political leadership contests in a generation, the Labour Party will today announce it’s new leader.
Left-Wing MP Jeremy Corbyn was an outsider when he jumped in the ring but is now tipped to win the vote by a remarkable margin.
He faces two former ministers in Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, as well as shadow minister Liz Kendall.
The winner is expected to be announced at a conference in central London at around 11.30am, with the party’s new deputy leader announced beforehand.
Mr Corbyn arrived at the conference surrounded by dozens of supporters singing the socialist anthem The Red Flag and chanting ‘Jez We Can’, which has become his unofficial campaign slogan and a popular Twitter hashtag.
Many senior figures within the party have warned that a Corbyn victory – which has been heralded as a ‘new kind of politics’ – could see Labour lurch to the left and divide the parliamentary party.
