Len McCluskey maintains he still backs Corbyn after quit prediction

Len McCluskey has insisted he still backs Jeremy Corbyn, despite appearing to distance himself from the Labour leader in a newspaper interview. The Unite leader suggested in a Daily Mirror interview that if opinion polls are "still awful" by 2019 Mr Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell may quit. Mr McCluskey is about to fight a bitter leadership election against a challenger, Gerard Coyne, who has accused the 66-year-old left-wing Unite leader of being Mr Corbyn's "puppet master".