Crunch Meeting For Unions Over Corbyn Future

“However, Mr Corbyn said he was not going to budge, he made it clear he was not going to stand down”.

The position of the unions could prove crucial in determining the future of the party, and Mr Watson told MPs that talks with them would be the “last throw of the dice” in efforts to persuade embattled leader Mr Corbyn to stand down.

Further up the political chain, Labour is split locally.

May said that under her leadership, the United Kingdom wouldn’t formally declare its intention to leave the European Union until next year, meaning that a British exit from the 28-nation bloc might not happen until 2019. Labour MP, Jo Cox.

Is this support too little, too late?

Several thousand people rallied in defence of Jeremy Corbyn in towns and cities across Britain last weekend.

He said Mr Corbyn would need to secure backing from more than 50 MPs if he wanted to fight a leadership challenge.

Some of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters in Labour found its structures made it nearly impossible to support their leader.

Referring to MPs who want to remove Corbyn, he told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: “I think they have been seduced by sinister forces in play here”.

The Barrow-in-Furness MP, a longtime critic of Corbyn, added: “Over the last nine months we have seen how a cabinet minister for mental health can raise the profile of mental health and hold the government to account for their broken promises on funding and parity of esteem”. We have won every by-election.

Around 65 people have quit Labour’s front bench in a bid to try and dislodge him, leaving Mr Corbyn with a shattered Parliamentary operation which has scores of vacancies.

He went on: “The membership has gone up by more than 60,000 in one week”.

Unfortunately for the Labour leader the verdict of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, a volunteer group set up by British Jews concerned about the recent rise in antisemitism in the country, is that his evidence was “totally inadequate”.

“When we do things together, we’re very strong”. “Many Jewish groups in the party, some are critical, some are not”.

“Paul Dennett, John Merry, Paula Boshell, John Ferguson, Bill Hinds, Lisa Stone, Paul Longshaw, Tracy Kelly, John Walsh, Adrian Brocklehurst, Barry Warner, Brendan Ryan, Christine Hudson, Jim Dawson, Jim King, Joe Murphy, John Warmisham, Kate Lewis, Samantha Bellamy, Barbara Bentham, Tanya Burc, Gina Reynolds, David Lancaster, Bernard Lea, Jane Hamilton, Jim Hunt, Rob Sharpe, Collette Weir, Steven Coen”.

And in Nottingham, Labour councillor Steve Battlemuch accused Labour MPs of “stabbing Jeremy in the back”. Now is the time to come together.

We should consider it telling that the Tories clearly don’t feel under any pressure or scrutiny whilst Corbyn is leading the opposition.

Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson, the MP for West Bromwich East, is to hold talks with trade union chiefs in an attempt to end the impasse over Jeremy Corbyn’s position.

Angela Eagle has been subjected to “homophobic abuse” since resigning from the Shadow cabinet and revealing her plans to challenge current leader Jeremy Corbyn, according to a senior Labour politician.