YOUNG Labour swung behind Jeremy Corbyn’s bid to be re-elected as Labour leader with an overwhelming majority at the national committee’s meeting on Thursday night.

Mr Corbyn won the backing of youth wing’s national committee with 15 votes for and 8 against.

The vote is a significant triumph for the Labour left as there was a pro-Kendall majority on the national committee during last year’s contest.

Young Labour’s chairwoman, primary school teacher Caroline Hill, said she supported Mr Corbyn “because he is the only Labour leader in my lifetime who has a serious plan to fight for young people.”

She added “a national education service will give everyone the chance to get the education they need, massive investment in jobs and social housing, and radical reform of workplace rights so that we can stop the scandal of exploitation and precarious work.”

North West representative Leigh Drennan told the star that “the overwhelming majority of young members in the North West support Mr Corbyn” and that he was “proud” to cast his vote for him.

Mr Corbyn was also given a resounding show of support from South-West Norfolk Labour Party members who voted by 90 per cent to nominate him to become the party’s leader.

Secretary of SW Norfolk CLP Philip Wagstaff said: “We are stating very strongly and clearly our belief that he is the right person to lead the Labour Party towards the next general election.”

He said Mr Corbyn had shown great leadership in motivating “an unprecedented number of people to join the Labour Party, both here in South-West Norfolk and across the country.”

A spokesman for the Jeremy for Labour campaign said: “Corbyn’s 10 pledges to rebuild and transform Britain resonate with a generation facing a future of precarious work, student