Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected leader of the UK opposition Labour Party. <br /><br /> Corbyn, the incumbent party leader, won 61.8% of the just over 506,000 Labour Party members who voted in the leadership contest. <br /><br /> His only challenger was Owen Smith.<br /><br /> Corbyn’s grass-roots supporters had called the challenge to his position a “coup” led by Labour MPs, many of whom see Corbyn as too left-wing and unelectable.<br /><br /> Corbyn, 67, has long sat on the left of the party, voting against centrists such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and lobbying with others to restore more socialist policies. A peace campaigner, he is opposed to Britain having nuclear weapons.<br /><br /> Fellow lawmakers criticised him for a lack of leadership and what they said a lukewarm campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, which he wants to reform. In late June, 172 of his colleagues passed a motion of no confidence.<br /><br /> With Reuters<br />
