MORE than 250 people including Labour’s chief whip Nick Brown MP attended the regional conference of campaign group Momentum.
The group, formed to back Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership bid, held its first North-East conference in Newcastle on Saturday.
Speaking before he took to the stage to give one of the closing addresses to Saturday’s conference, Mr Brown, MP for Newcastle East, said: “First and foremost, I think the party has to accept that Jeremy won fair and square and is the leader of the Labour Party.
“It’s up to the rest of us to support his leadership and to make sure that the Parliamentary Labour Party can work in a single-minded, united and effective way. That’s what I’m setting out to achieve.”
Other MPs attending the conference were Chi Onwurah, Emma Lewell-Buck and Ian Mearns.
Conference co-ordinator Jamie Driscoll said the conference was a “terrific success”.
He added: “Momentum is the movement of grassroots people actually getting out there and making a difference”.
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