Labour’s Corbyn meets backers ahead of likely leadership challenge

As a result, 40 of his shadow cabinet resigned and he lost a vote of confidence by 172-40, leaving him leading a party without the support of his MPs.

“I think a lot of what he stands for is very important for us going forward”.

A furious David Cameron took the dramatic move of urging Jeremy Corbyn to quit as Labour leader, as the top politicians clashed at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) today (29 June).

Ms Eagle, MP for Wallasey in Merseyside and a former Pensions Minister, is believed to have secured the support of enough MPs to be able to challenge Mr Corbyn.

Rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, Mr Corbyn had caused “even greater concern”, he said.

He described the Parliamentary Labour Party as “like a lynch mob without the rope”, adding: “Jeremy won a mandate last summer and there are a handful of MPs who couldn’t accept that mandate – we’ve been expecting a coup any time since then”.

Former home secretary Alan Johnson, who led the Labour In campaign in the referendum, added to the pressure with a scathing denunciation of Mr Corbyn’s performance. “So it looks like the Labour party is heading for some kind of contested election”.

Cameron said hours after the vote that he would step down, having led a failed “remain” campaign.

Supporters Mr Corbyn retains the support of some of Britain’s biggest unions, and his supporters are confident that most of the party members who voted for him past year would do so again.

A leadership contest is now expected with former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle poised to stand.

“They are there because they are Labour Party members and they are selected locally”.

“She is still up for it. She has the signatures”, one source said, referring to the 50 nominations from Labour MPs and MEPs needed to mount a challenge under party rules.

“The latest is Mr Corbyn is digging in, he’s refusing to resign, and basically saying to his opponents “come on, challenge me” – so far there is no challenger”. It’s not in the national interest. However, Mr Corbyn has claimed that he would not “betray” his supporters by resigning.

It did find “an occasionally toxic atmosphere is in danger of shutting down free speech within the party” and called on Labour Party members to refrain from using Nazi imagery and metaphors when discussing current events in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The mechanism is him resigning. I resisted calls to speak out against him when he was running for the job and since he was elected.