Tories target anti-Brexit seats
already have one of their own as Labour leader.” Fellow Tory MP Amanda Milling added: “Let this sink in: Corbyn has been endorsed today by a party who want to close down businesses, leave the protection of Nato and hike up taxes to a level never seen before in this country. At this election every vote is going to count.”
The Communist Party of Britain contested nine seats at the last election in 2015.
But its general secretary Robert Griffiths said the party’s political committee had decided to give their full backing to Labour instead.
“We call for a Labour vote in every constituency across Britain, despite the reactionary views of numerous Labour Party candidates,” its statement said.
Meanwhile, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon yesterday warned that Jeremy Corbyn’s stance on Trident would put Britain in danger.
He seized on the Labour leader’s hint at the weekend that he could scrap Britain’s nuclear deterrent if he won the election and would not approve a pre-emptive strike.
A row over deterrence within Labour forced shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith to insist she personally would be prepared to press the “nuclear button”.
She claimed the party remained fully committed to Trident, regardless of its leader’s views.
Sir Michael said Mr Corbyn had questioned strikes against terrorists, refused to back the nuclear deterrent and queried Britain’s Nato deployment, adding that “he seems to have fallen out with his own party” over the nuclear deterrent.
The Defence Secretary said: “That’s chaos. But it’s very dangerous chaos that would put the security of our country at risk.
“Jeremy Corbyn is who could be somebody Prime PLANS to crush Labour by targeting seats held by its Remainer MPs have been revealed by the Tories.
The Daily Express has learnt that Tory candidates for Labour seats held by anti-Brexit MPs will be helped by major campaign resources.
Those constituencies have been labelled as “highly winnable”.
With Jeremy Corbyn’s party in disarray and polls suggesting they could be Minister in six weeks’ time.” Mr Corbyn yesterday used a visit to Scotland to demand the scrapping of legal restrictions on industrial action.
He told a gathering of the Scottish TUC in Aviemore: “One of the very first things we will do will be to repeal the Tory Trade Union Act, giving working people the rights to collectively organise and make their lives better, safer and more content.”
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Senior sources have suggested party officials are concentrating on constituencies which backed Brexit but are stuck with a Remainer Labour MP.
The list of vulnerable Labour seats is said to include Chester, Ealing Central and Acton, Halifax and Brentford. Secretary Priti Patel said: “Let’s be clear what Jeremy Corbyn is calling for. He’s calling for it be easier to go on strike in our emergency services and border posts.
“He’s calling to remove protections on crowd control at pickets.
“And he’s calling for union bosses who bankroll Labour to be allowed to keep their campaign spending a secret.”