“He is losing support of the membership by the day, there is no doubt about that, but they just sign up new members to replace them”.
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“Personally I cannot see how you can continue to lead a party into Government when 80 per cent of your MPs disagree with you and your leadership”.
The audio recording was obtained by Ben Ferguson – who presented the recent Vice News documentary “Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider”.
Members of Parliament “need to respect the democracy of our party and the views of Labour’s membership, which has increased by more than 100,000 to over half a million in the past fortnight alone”, Corbyn said Friday in an article for the Guardian newspaper.
They believe that the majority of the 113,000 who have signed up since the referendum have joined to give him their support, despite the overwhleming vote of no confidence he received from Labour MPs – though others have signed up so that they can vote to remove him.
Yesterday, I spoke directly with Len McCluskey of Unite and met with our leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to explore what I can do to try and heal the rifts that have opened up in our movement.
He said: “Labour supporters across Britain recognise that the 172-40 vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn came from MPs who are constantly in touch with voters and dedicated to trying to make Labour electable”.
The plans for a crisis meeting emerged after Mr Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party was backed by a major union, but it stressed that the party must function as an “effective opposition”.
Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has said that he would “never say never” to leading the Labour party, while urging the party unite.
But Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald – recently promoted to shadow transport secretary – has continued to back his under-fire leader.
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson is to hold emergency talks with trade union leaders after a fresh attempt to persuade Jeremy Corbyn to step down fell on deaf ears.
The SW Wilts Constituency Labour Party is holding a private meeting on Wednesday, July 13 to discuss the leadership battle.
The fear for the rebels seeking to oust Mr Corbyn is that if they do put up a challenger he could still win in a ballot of grassroots activists leaving him even more strongly entrenched in his position.
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The change saw thousands of new members steer the party to the political left with the election of the confirmed socialist.
