It came after the Labour rebel said he would throw his hat in the ring if Mr Corbyn flops in key elections being held next May.
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A few have already faced local petitions demanding their removal.
Veteran MP Frank Field warned any such move could be met by a mass rebellion – with MPs backing their ousted colleagues in a by-election in defiance of party rules. McDonnell told the Andrew Marr Show: “We are opposing any threat to individual MPs”. We are not in favour of reselection.
“I think we’re winning the socialist arguments more and through the democratic procedures of the Labour party”.
“There is no way we will allow MPs to be deselected in that way”.
Mr Corbyn said the Government had “chosen to attack those in need” through the cuts in tax credits, while cutting inheritance tax.
Labour’s appointment of a left-wing senior Guardian journalist as its new strategy and communications chief has been criticised by a few moderate MPs.
But any challenger would face an uphill struggle, given the large margin of Mr Corbyn’s victory in September, especially among the new party recruits drawn to his anti-austerity message.
He added: “The country needs a Labour party capable of boldness, but absolutely clear that what matters is building a broad coalition of electoral support”.
Mr Danczuk, 49, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘If the results for Labour in May are as dire as we all fear, then yes I would be prepared to stand as a stalking horse against Jeremy Corbyn. “This is a challenge we wholeheartedly embrace”.
Mr McDonnell said: “We are radicalising the parliamentary party already”.
“It’s a capital offence to campaign for somebody standing against a Labour candidate but if enough of us go they can’t pick all of us off and expel the lot”.
Livingstone said it’s “inevitable” that Labour MPs who defy Corbyn on a regular basis would face deselection when candidates are being chosen in the future due to the huge influx of new members who will support those who are left-wing and pro-Corbyn.
He said such attacks were “the predicted effect of an avalanche of violence unleashed by the U.S., Britain and others in eight direct military interventions in Arab and Muslim countries that have left hundreds of thousands of dead”.
Asked for his view of the party under Mr Corbyn, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “It’s slightly distressing to see it going off in a direction I’m not very sympathetic to”.
In a wide ranging speech, he urged the party to be a strong voice in defence of public services, the NHS, industry and workers’ rights, and talked up the party’s prospects in the county elections next year and General Election in 2020. They will be Jeremy Corbyn supporters and they will be making a decision because of boundary changes.
They could look very different by the time the changes are published in 2018 because of the reduction in the number of seats from 650 to 600. “They have a right to defend themselves from the occupier”.
‘It shouldn’t be a job for life’.
Frank Field, who saw off attempts by his own party to deselect him in the 1980s, said any kind of change would have real ramifications.
Field was supported by Phillips, who told Five Live: “If I thought someone had been genuinely picked off unfairly, then yes I would go and help them”.
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“And now think it is probably in everyone’s interests that I turn my phone off for the evening”. I t entirely depends on the circumstances, but the party isn’t always right.
