Members who attended a meeting of the constituency party last night voted 48-7 in favour of a motion supporting the embattled Labour leader.
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The meeting will take place as the Wallasey MP and Labour leadership hopeful continues to face pressure from some of her Wallasey party members to support Jeremy Corbyn.
Following the result of the UK’s European Union referendum last month – which saw 52 percent of the electorate vote in favor of a “Brexit” – pre-existing ructions within Labour party ranks were ripped apart by a mass exodus of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet.
The assessment of the situation was echoed by a spokesman for Mr Corbyn following the talks between the Labour leader and the Unite chief. The vote was non-binding, and he appears to be ignoring the outcome.
Speaking on Daily Politics earlier today, Baroness Tessa Jowell said members of Labour’s Parliamentary Party had been subjected to “intimidation, abuse and fear” in the wake of a vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn last week.
“We’re now at the biggest membership we’ve been, certainly in all of my lifetime …”
Fourteen South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Labour councillors have signed a letter of support to party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Also vying for the leadership is former Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions Owen Smith.
Unless Corbyn agrees to step aside, there is likely to be a battle inside the party – and potentially through the courts – about whether his name would automatically have to be included on any ballot paper.
It is the latest symptom of just how severe the disconnect between the parliamentary Labour party and the membership really is.
And he told the Daily Mirror in February he had created the shadow cabinet post “in recognition of the scale of the problem, and that we have not yet as a nation arrived at the right way to help those in need”.
“It will be disastrous for us”.
There have been reports the beleaguered Labour leader wants to quit, but his allies on the left of the party are persuading him to remain in power. It put us out for 18 years.
One source close to Mr Corbyn told the Star: “There are people who positively want a split because they want to defeat Jeremy at any cost”.
“We have a Labour Party to return to after this mess”.
He told the Labour conference that he was going to “make mental health a real priority”, adding: “It’s an issue for all of us”.
But for now, Corbyn remains resolute in his decision.
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During a rally in support of the Labour leader on Wednesday, shadow cabinet member Jon Trickett launched an attack on Eagle for her unwavering support of the Iraq war. I didn’t feel intimidated but then I’m not easily intimidated but other people have said they were scared.
