STEFAN ROUSSEAU/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party.
Corbyn defeated his challenger, Owen Smith, with 61.8 of the vote– a larger margin of victory than last year. Smith took in 38.2 percent.
“We have much more in common than divides us,” he said in his victory speech Saturday according to BBC. “Let us wipe that slate clean from today and get on with the work that we have to do as a party.”
He faced a second election in less than 12 months after he alienated many of the party’s Members of Parliament. Corbyn now faces an uphill struggle to convince those MPs to now support him.
The Labour Party remains deeply divided and opinion polls show it losing a lot of support in the country as a whole.
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