Yvette Cooper seeks Welsh support for Labour leadership

What is more distressing is the unclear nature of whether these complaints are legitimate – or represent a last-ditch attempt to stop the left-winger Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader.

The shadow home secretary is also due to meet with business leaders for a breakfast meeting tomorrow as part of her campaign to win the leadership.

Why is Labour telling me I must “reactivate my membership” before I can vote?

He stated that “I do not mind if Jeremy Corbyn is elected by the Labour Party“, explaining that if Mr Corbyn was elected by party members, “that’s democracy”.

The victor will be announced on September 12 after a ballot of more than 600,000 voters, made up of party members, affiliated trade union members and other registered supporters.

On Wednesday, alast-minute surge of people wanting to register to vote caused the party’s website to crash, meaning supporters were given an extra three hours to sign up.

The shadow care minister who is running a distant fourth in the contest, urged her supporters to back Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper behind her on the voting form.

Mr Blair has called on long-standing Labour members to save the party whether they used to “support me or hate me”.

The registration deadline in order to vote in the Labour leadership election was yesterday.

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”.

In Manchester, Ms Cooper admitted she may lose support for attacking Mr Corbyn, but insisted: “It’s not about personalities”.

Mr Morgan said he backed Yvette Cooper for the Labour leadership, saying: “She’s got the strength and she’s got the capability”.

In new comments, Mr Blair said the election to replace Ed Miliband as leader is now about whether Labour “remains a party of government”, as he noted protest movements agitate against those who govern rather than change the country.

Backbencher Mr Corbyn said: “Scotland is one of several examples of how Labour has become disconnected”.

A spokesman for the Jeremy for Labour campaign issued a statement which said he strongly opposed any antisemitism and that he was “proud to represent a multicultural constituency of people from all over the world”.

Labour headquarters has told Sky News almost 80 staff are working in London and Newcastle creating a database of candidates for other parties and people who nominated or seconded those candidates, so they can be excluded from the list.