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Labour leadership race: Three mainstream candidates booed at hustings

Veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn received the warmest welcome of all the candidates at a Labour leadership campaign hustings.

All three of his rivals were booed and heckled on the issue of renewing Trident, and for refusing to condemn Tory welfare reforms.

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Jeremy Corbyn thanks social media for his success

Jeremy Corbyn Credit: Press Association

Jeremy Corbyn, who scraped through to the next round of the Labour leadership contest just two minutes before the deadline, has said that his success marks the launch of a "broader anti-austerity movement".

Hailing the role social media played in his campaign, he said: "We secured these nominations as a result of a massive campaign across the country by Labour supporters urging Labour MPs to allow for a wide-ranging democratic debate within our party.

"My candidacy marks the launch of a broader anti-austerity movement to shift the terms of political debate in this country by presenting an alternative to the socially devastating and widely discredited austerity agenda."

But not everyone is happy: Labour backbencher John Mann was scathing on Twitter.

"So to demonstrate our desire never to win again, Islington's Jeremy Corbyn is now a Labour leadership candidate," he said.

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