Veteran left wing LAB MP Jeremy Corbyn enters the leadership racehttp://t.co/d1b3i9DGEn pic.twitter.com/YaEIDDVEGK

— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 3, 2015

Says the other candidates are too right-wing

Corbyn is going to have to get his skates on because nominations close a week on Monday and he’ll need 35 fellow MPs to support him just to get on the ballot.

Of the other 4 contenders he told the Mirror ““They are not offering a clear enough alternative on the economic strategy and austerity, and our attitude to welfare expenditure. We think the left members of the party need to have a chance of a debate.”

The big question is whether his candidature will hurt any of the other campaigns.

Mike Smithson

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