Quit for your party’s sake, Labour MPs tell Jeremy Corbyn

Beleaguered Jeremy Corbyn is facing the prospect of most of his MPs voting to oust him as Labour’s bitter civil war threatens to tear the party apart.

Mr Corbyn filled the shadow cabinet seats vacated by the MPs who deserted him on Sunday with allies, including a number of MPs from the 2015 intake.

Seen as being on the soft-Left, Ms Eagle is said by supporters to be someone who can win over party members who backed Mr Corbyn while bringing the experience needed to handle the fallout from the Brexit vote.

Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, is due to meet Corbyn for talks later today.

“In such turbulent times, we need a leader who can unite rather than divide the Labour Party”.

They said: “The lack of confidence in the leadership goes beyond the small group of MPs who have consistently opposed Jeremy since his election”.

Corbyn has previously warned: “Those who want to change Labour’s leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate”.

They are ready to exploit party rules that allow people to temporarily join Labour for pounds 3 to recruit 100,000 Left-wing activists who would primarily back Mr Corbyn in a vote.

The referendum decision to leave the European Union has acted as the trigger for action by senior MPs against Mr Corbyn.

The party leader said the vote by the Parliamentary Labour Party on a motion tabled by the veteran backbencher Dame Margaret Hodge had no “constitutional legitimacy” under party rules.

Lord Michael Cashman, the Labour party’s global LGBT envoy, has this morning announced his resignation from the role in protest over UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

He said: “The Prime Minister must take the lion’s share of the blame for that defeat and he has honourably resigned, but your inability to give a clear, unambiguous message to Labour voters significantly contributed to the result…”

Powell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she hoped Corbyn would “not drag this out any longer than necessary” and step down.

“I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics”.

The party’s leaders in the Lords are set to refuse to attend meetings of Mr Corbyn’s top team.

The chaos in the Labour ranks saw a string of junior frontbenchers follow the lead of their former shadow cabinet colleagues in quitting in protest at Mr Corbyn’s leadership.

Mr Kinnock also took Mr Corbyn to task for his “half-hearted and lacklustre” leadership during the campaign. “They are unfounded and appear to be aimed at undermining the Labour leadership”.

It is believed that Benn issued his vote of no confidence following criticism that Jeremy Corbyn could have done more for the Remain campaign during the referendum.

But at a brutal meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party the Opposition leader was told he was not up to the job and urged to “do the decent thing”.

“The people who are sovereign in our party are the members”.