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One claimed he had never been “a Labour person” and would have been blocked in the past if he had tried to become a Labour election candidate for not sharing the party’s aims and values. One that looks more like Momentum; a Corbyn Labour Party.

The arch-Blairite has faced calls for his expulsion from the party for ” openly inciting insurrection” against Mr Corbyn, but he has insisted he is “not going anywhere”.

The Rochdale MP – who would have to secure the backing of 46 of the party’s 231 MPs – told the Mail on Sunday: “I f the results for Labour in May are as dire as we all fear, then yes I would be prepared to stand as a stalking horse against Jeremy Corbyn”.

“My only intention is to secure a better leader for the Labour Party and to give us a few chance of winning the next General Election”.

Leading Labour MPs could be at risk of losing their seats following the arrival of large numbers of radical activists in their constituency parties.

Mr Danczuk’s latest broadside against the leadership came as Ed Miliband’s former policy chief announced he was forming a new group aimed at ensuring the party builds “a broad coalition of support”.

Yes it wants to create a broad anti-austerity movement outside of the Labour party.

An unnamed senior Labour figure said: “Many of these people have joined the party already and there is now a drive to get the others in as well”.

The Trotskyite Worker’s Liberty Party said its members have helped to set up a Momentum branch in Lewisham, with the intention of changing the delegates to be sent to the Labour party conference next year.

Momentum now has about 60,000 supporters, charges no membership fee, organises mostly through social media and has around 50 local groups across the UK. “This is a challenge we wholeheartedly embrace”.

But pressed by host Andrew Neil to disclose his musings on Labour’s expected fortunes, Varoufakis said: “Until and unless the Left in this country manages to… bring into the Labour fold – and in to politics – all these youngsters who don’t care about you, me, Corbyn, Cameron, I think Britain will have failed and the Labour Party will not have been revived”. “I am looking forward to working with them”.