Spotlight: Corbyn urges Labor to end trench warfare, unite to prepare for early general election

British Labor Party's Jeremy Corbyn, re-elected as leader for the second time in a year with landslide victories, called on the party on Wednesday to unite to fight and win the next general election.

Delivering a key-note closing speech to the party's annual conference in Liverpool, Corbyn acknowledged the civil war that has torn apart Britain's opposition party.

He predicted that Prime Minister Theresa May will call a snap general election as early as next year.

"Every one of us in the Labor Party is motivated by the gap between what our country is and what it could be," he said.

"In the sixth largest economy in the world, the foodbanks, the stunted life chances and growing poverty alongside wealth on an undreamed scale are a mark of shameful and unnecessary failure."

"We know how great this country could be with a new political and economic settlement. With new forms of democratic public ownership, driven by investment in the technologies of the future, with decent homes, education and housing for all," he said.

"Our job now is to win over the unconvinced to our vision. And let's be frank, no one will be convinced of a vision promoted by a divided party."

In a message, following his re-election as the leader, directed at all levels in the party from his estranged MPs to rank and file members, Corbyn said: "I ask each and every one of you to accept the decision of the members, end the trench warfare and work together to take on the Conservatives. Anything else is a luxury that millions of people who depend on Labor cannot afford."

Corbyn announced major policy proposals, a Labor government giving powers to town halls across the country to build a million homes, introducing a new National Education Service he said would be as vital as Britain's National Health Service.

He said his 10-point plan would end inequality and introduce a fairer society and also include a new settlement to business, which he described as a new deal for rebuilding Britain.

The new National Education Service would be paid for by asking people to pay "a little more tax."

Corbyn made no mention of curbing immigration, one of the key factors in Britain's decision in the June referendum to quit the European Union.

"A Labor government will not offer false promises on immigration as the Conservatives have done. We will not sow division by fanning the flames of fear."

Instead, he said Labor would tackle the real issues of immigration whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations and make the changes that are needed.

He described as shameful, the increase in assaults on migrants since a referendum campaign that had peddled myths and whipped up division.

With Labor's membership the highest of any political party in Europe, around 600,000, Corbyn urged his followers to take out the party's vision to a country crying out for change.

Corbyn said the party could climb an electoral mountain, with him leading Labor to victory to become prime minister.

Despite the applause given to Corbyn, it was clear the divisions within Labor are far from being healed. Endit