His comments came before Mr Corbyn lost a no confidence vote of MPs, 172-40 vote, which is not binding.
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“Today’s vote by MPs has no constitutional legitimacy”, Corbyn said in a statement.
If more than two candidates stand, Tory MPs will vote next week to whittle down the field to two nominees, before the new leader is chosen by a postal ballot of party members, who now number about 150,000.
“I would not be able to do my job if I did not have the support of the parliamentary party, regardless of the mandate that members give me”.
But the Guardian reported that the result is likely to lead to a direct challenge to Mr Corbyn.
The news comes after the Labour leader said he would not betray his grassroots supporters by resigning following an overwhelming vote of no confidence by Labour MPs.
But one supporter said Mr Evans’ comments were applicable to MPs “plotting” against the party leader. “On behalf of the constituency I would ask you to make a clear public statement of support for him”, the letter from the local party chair read, published on Huffington Post. He urged party members, trade unionists and lawmakers to unite behind his leadership.
The BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, says Mr Slaughter’s resignation is different to the others, because he describes himself as a “comrade” of Mr Corbyn, and made a decision to resign only after consulting his local party activists, who agreed.
His team insist that if there is a challenge, he will automatically be on the ballot paper as the incumbent leader.
‘Whatever electoral system you have, if Members of Parliament of your own party lose confidence in you, to this degree and this publicly that you can not continue as a leader’. In the same year, with her sister Maria, they became the first set of twins to sit in the Commons. The leader’s office said he will stand if a contest is triggered.
British Labour Party MPs voted massively against their leader on Tuesday amid political turmoil in Britain after a vote to leave the European Union (EU) as candidates to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron vied for power behind the scenes.
“There are a lot of flat earthers out there who have got to come to terms with the fact the world is not as they like it”, the source said.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Corbyn was “not going anywhere”.
He told Sky News: “It’s probably the worst crisis since Labour’s formation, in its current form, in 1918”.
“If I was in his position, if I had lost the confidence of 80% of colleagues I would resign because I could simply not do my job”, she told ITV Border.
Corbyn, who has long had a strained relationship with Labour’s MPs, nearly immediately came under pressure to quit because of his lacklustre role in promoting the Remain camp, which Labour officially campaigned for.
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Pat Glass, who was appointed as shadow education secretary on Monday, announced less than 24 hours later she will step down as an MP at the next General Election.
