Campbell, formerly chief spokesman and strategist for Blair, told club members on Tuesday that electing Corbyn could present a problem for the party.
But if leadership-hopeful Corbyn did array himself with the white poppy, he risks alienating several members of an already fraught Labour party. The Labour group also has ties to the Taxpayers’ Alliance, which has variously argued for further benefits cuts, reducing pensions and eroding trade union rights.
You hear similar thoughts in other campaign teams where one old hand thinks it could be a victory of less than 2 per cent, whoever gets it. But the registered supporters are thought to have delivered as much as 70 per cent of their voters for Jeremy Corbyn.
Crick, who is well known for pursuing uncooperative politicians with a camera and microphone, says in a tweet that he discovered Mike Watkinson, a Conservative party press officer, sitting near the front of the rally in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
“But we don’t regard what is being said in the Labour leadership contest as a joke”, he said. The publicity generated by a Corbyn win would make it hard for Dugdale to move out of his shadow and establish herself as a political leader in her own right.
An informed debate about Mr Corbyn’s proposals would be welcome, but the sniping should stop. It was formed in 2001 to oppose the “war against terrorism”.
Mr Corbyn has repeatedly been questioned about his associations with Islamist extremists and Holocaust deniers, and comparing Western foreign policy with terrorism.
Hot on his tail Crick enquires: “What are you doing at this meeting?”
Corbyn has previously worn both before, but if he becomes Labour leader on Saturday he could face a backlash from at least two of his party’s MPs for making the unprecedented move.
The left-wing Labour leadership frontrunner will speak at a final homecoming gig in his north London constituency on Thursday, hours after voting closes.
“We’ve been gaining people from Jeremy too“, one told Mirror Online. The results will be announced on September 12.