Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn will be ousted if members elect him, says

In a sentence of admirable chutzpah, Lehal admits that “the truth is the other frontrunner for leader – Jeremy Corbyn – has got thousands of his supporters to register to vote”.

Labour MP John Mann has called for two of Ms Kendall, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to be removed from the contest to allow a head-to-head with Mr Corbyn, as the party suffers internal turmoil over the prospect of Mr Corbyn taking charge.

Earlier leadership rival Andy Burnham warned that of some the new recruits to Labour attracted by Mr Corbyn’s radical rhetoric “don’t have the party’s best interests at heart”.

It comes as voting in the election for the new Scottish Labour leader nears closing.

YVETTE Cooper has won the backing of Labour members in Basingstoke after they voted her as their top choice to become the next leader of the party.

“I can’t pretend to be agnostic to Jeremy Corbyn leading our party because I think millions of people are desperate and depend on a serious Labour Party that can win elections”, she said.

The gloves came off in the Labour leadership contest as the party began sending ballot papers out to eligible voters, who include registered supporters and members of affiliated bodies such as trade unions, as well as members.

In a highly charged speech in Manchester yesterday, the normally cautious Cooper risked alienating potential second preference supporters by standing against the surging
left-wing tide. If we’re just attacking people and making dire warnings, I think it is misreading what people are saying.

A number of Corbyn supporters are anxious about the possibility they will be excluded after receiving notifications of further checks or hearing nothing back after trying to sign up.

Labour says it has “no plans” to suspend or halt the race, whose results are due on September 12.

Mr Corbyn has set the Labour campaign on fire – leaving some in the party wanting to find a big enough candidate to smother the flames.

Corbyn, 66, is a socialist who opposes austerity cuts, supports scrapping nuclear weapons and has never held a frontline ministerial position.

He went on: “There is a vast array of policy questions to answer”.

The same polls that have suggested Mr Corbyn could get a landslide victory have also put Ms Kendall at the back of the field, with bookies now offering odds of 100-1.