There was further humiliation for Mr Corbyn as Hilary Benn – who he sacked as shadow foreign secretary in the early hours of Sunday morning – was cheered as he stood to speak during the Commons session on the European Union referendum.
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Abbott said that if there was another leadership election, she was confident that Corbyn stood a very good chance of winning once again.
A large number of Labour MPs are expected to vote with the motion of no confidence by 4pm today, when polling closes.
Pressure on United Kingdom opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn continued to mount on Monday as more Labour Party lawmakers quit his shadow cabinet in the wake of the Brexit referendum.
As members of the Parliamentary Labour Party denounced their leader at their weekly meeting in Westminster yesterday evening, his supporters gathered outside parliament.
Mr Corbyn, who was heckled by his own MPs in the House of Commons yesterday, is now nearly certain to face a formal challenge and a leadership contest which will be decided by an electoral college dominated by ordinary party members.
Several Labour MPs have cited the possibility of a general election in the next six months – following on from the election of a new Conservative leader – as the reason why Corbyn must now consider his position.
“He is losing us Labour support across the country – and particularly in the towns and coalfields that built the labour movement in the first place”, she said in a speech to the Centre for European Reform in London.
Other trade unions, such as Unite and Unison, have also shown their support for Corbyn – a significant move since they are some of the top donors to the Labour Party.
Hannah Sturridge, aged 24, expressed her dissatisfaction with the current political situation and said Brexit has affected younger people like herself regarding unemployment.
“The writing on the wall is 8 meters high and if he can’t see it, he needs to go to Specsavers”, Chris Bryant, who resigned from Corbyn’s team on Sunday, told reporters, referring to a chain of opticians.
“I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics”.
Alan Johnson, the former home secretary, said that it often felt as if figures in the leader’s office were “working against the rest of the party and had conflicting objectives”.
“At a time like this you need strong, clear and decisive leadership”.
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In the early hours of Sunday, Corbyn dismissed shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was rallying party members to resign if the Labour leader refused to stand down.
