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The struggle for power in Labour’s Angela Eagle wants to be party leader

Head of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn is coming under further pressure: The MP Angela Eagle wants to apply for the post of CEO. For the controversial party Chairman, it could be tight.

As a teenager, she won tournaments in chess, now the British Labour MP Angela Eagle could put the party leader Jeremy Corbyn checkmate. The 55-year-old Ex-trade unionist has announced that they will submit on Monday officially as a candidate for the party presidency. Political commentators suggest that the Eagle might be just the Right for the Post, this is considered to be rhetorically talented and conciliating at the same time.

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“I’m not the right Person”

“It could soon be parliamentary elections, and I think I’m the right Person to lead the party in these elections,” said the Eagle to the channel ITV. She struggles for a healed and United Labour party and a strong Opposition, “so that our democracy works”. You run for the party presidency in order to win, she added. The acting party leader Corbyn responded to stresses left on Eagles notice. He said he was subjected to “no pressure”.

Under Corbyn Eagle belonged to the shadow Cabinet before you and numerous other members of the shadow Cabinet left the end of June, after the Brexit vote the British out of Protest. Eagle your party leader, wrote a strongly worded letter To many Labour supporters would have the Referendum on the British EU-exit of the arguments of the Right are convincing, because Labour have campaigned under Corbyns only “half-heartedly” for the EU membership, criticized them. “In such turbulent times, we need a leader that the Labour party can be rather a instead of columns.”

Corbyn under pressure

Corbyn is at the latest since the Referendum, as the party chief highly controversial. At the end of June, only 40 Labour MPs voted in a vote of confidence for him, 172 but against him. Corbyn was still in office, and pointed out that he had been elected by the party members by a large majority.

If Eagle puts you in the leadership battle in the Labour party, it would be the first Time that a self-confessed Homo occurs sexual personality at the head of a major British party. The Eagle belongs to the left-Labour wing, and gave to the former party leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at a distance.

Estimations of political observers, according to the 55-Year-old the right personality for this task. “Eagle feels comfortable in their own skin and can appeal to all voters of types” – the Northern English worker to Hipster from London In the district of Shoreditch, wrote a columnist in the “Daily Telegraph”: “it would be exactly what you need for Labour.”

Rhetorical Talent

Eagle is considered as a representative of the party’s left wing. In the case of votes you followed so far, always to the group discipline, with one exception in the past year, as she voted against Corbyn to ensure that the UK is involved in the air strikes of the international military Alliance in Syria.

While the previous party was able to convince the chief Corbyn in the weekly question hour in the Parliament speech a little, turned out to be Eagle, in their battles with the Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne as “witty” as the conservative “Daily Telegraph” was.

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