Hilary Benn’s niece urges Alex Salmond to retract comments that father Tony

Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy, who has faced threats of deselection, was forced to leave the chamber during Syria debate to deal with abusive phone calls to her office.

I have no time for those bile-spouting trolls who want to deselect every “Red Tory” that disagrees with them, many believing that because they joined the party to vote for Corbyn they have ownership of it. They don’t.

However Mr Wrack – a long-time ally of Mr Corbyn whose union recently re-affiliated to Labour – said MPs could not expect to be selected at the age of 25 and then remain “for the next 40 years without having to have some dialogue and debate with the people who put them there”. “To say they should be subjected to a witch-hunt or a campaign against them is wrong”. Like a lot of political hacks, my professional experience of the Labour Party started in the early Blair years, when frankly, there was little point in talking to people like Mr Corybn. They have probably signified rather less, however, for the people of Syria, ostensibly at the heart of this week’s debates.

Mr Danczuk said: “There is no excuse for threats like this against me or anyone else, this is unacceptable behaviour and it will not be tolerated”. And this is exemplified by the weight of voting from the Labour Party last night.

Mr Watson rejected suggestions that he was himself angling to replace Mr Corbyn as leader.

Mr Livingstone said he had been “quite angry” about the criticism directed at Mr Corbyn but that, in the wake of Labour’s victory in the Oldham West and Royton by-election, the recent “tensions” in the party should ease a little. “She is an excellent MP and she has my support”.

Jarvis, like Benn and others, also penned a long op-ed about why he is defying his party’s leader.

Benn went against his party’s own leadership when he called on members of parliament to vote for airstrikes in Syria and invoked the “internationalism” of the Labour party.

There is, of course, one big difference between Iraq and Syria.

Labour remembers them as traitors and the Tories who once cheered MacDonald and his cronies disposed of them when they had served their goal. “He leads the party”.

HILARY Benn’s niece has blasted Alex Salmond for claiming the Labour MP’s late father Tony Benn would be “birling in his grave” over his son’s barnstorming Commons speech for airstrikes in Syria.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith, who opposed air strikes, branded Mr Livingstone’s backing for deselections “disgraceful”.

Ms Flint voted in favour of extending military action from Iraq to Syria to combat Daesh and said the bullying and online abuse on social media suffered by her and colleagues had been unprecedented.

“We must not in any way demean them for making that absolutely justified and understandable decision”.

He added: “I think it is going to develop into a positive alternative for the country”.

Labour supporters of the bombing knew that their conduct was undermining their newly elected leader.

In light of last night’s vote on Syria airstrikes, Twitter and Facebook have been exploding with extraordinary levels of comments and abuse that no one, MPs or otherwise, should be subjected to. “The selection of candidates is entirely a matter for local party members and rightly so”.

Former shadow cabinet member Tristram Hunt claimed there had been “reprehensible comments from those involved in it but also intimidation of MPs and particularly intimidation of female Labour MPs”. “Stop the War will continue to hold to democratic account all those MPs who vote for war”, the group’s chairman, Andrew Murray, and convener, Lindsey German, said.

MPs from six different parties, including 66 Labour rebels, marched through the Division Lobby with the Prime Minister, giving him the consensus he was so desperately seeking – and, with it, political legitimacy should the war drag on or, worse, end in failure.

So we are no more or less at war today than yesterday before the vote was taken.