13 July 2016
Dear Jeremy Corbyn MP
We, the Executive Committee of
the Reading Trades Union Council, are writing to you following a unanimous
decision of the RTUC General Meeting of 12 July 2016 to declare our
wholehearted support for your leadership of the Labour Party.
You were elected leader of the
Labour Party nine months ago on the first ballot with 59.5% of members’ votes
in a four-candidate race, a mandate for leadership far in excess of any other
contemporary British party leader. We consider, therefore, the recent
resignations from your Shadow Cabinet and the challenge to your leadership by
Angela Eagle MP and Owen Smith MP as acts of gross betrayal.
Reading Trades Union Council urge
you to remain steadfast in your determination to lead the Labour Party to
general election victory. We urge Ms Eagle and Mr Smith to withdraw their
challenges to your leadership and show loyalty to you, the overwhelming choice of
Labour Party members for party leader.
We send you our solidarity.
Best wishes.
The Executive Committee
Reading Trades Union Council
CC: Iain McNicol, General
Secretary of the Labour Party; Duncan Bruce, Secretary of Reading and District
Labour Party; Angela Eagle MP; and Owen Smith MP
[The Open Letter was reported in GetReading online on 18 July 2016 here: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-trades-unions-back-jeremy-11628559.]
[The Open Letter was reported in GetReading online on 18 July 2016 here: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-trades-unions-back-jeremy-11628559.]
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| Reading Chronicle, 21 July 2016, p. 15 |
