“I have made clear I am ready to reach out to Labour MPs who oppose my leadership – and work with the whole party to provide the alternative the country needs”, Mr Corbyn said.
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However, he told a packed meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday night that Mr Corbyn had again made it clear that he had no intention of walking away, issuing a renewed appeal to supporters to unite behind his leadership.
Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson have held separate talks with the leader of the country’s biggest union in an attempt to resolve the crisis at the top of the Labour Party.
On Mr Corbyn and activists such as Momentum who support him, the source said: “When people get weaker, they shout louder”.
Mr Corbyn may be “engaging in talks with an open mind” but has said he is going nowhere.
Labour Party lawmakers in the House of Commons have the support required to trigger a leadership election but have held off declaring their candidate – expected to be Angela Eagle – following a surge in new party members supporting Corbyn.
AS the Labour Party continues to fight through a period of mass unrest and turmoil following the European Union referendum, the SW Wiltshire Constituency is backing Jeremy Corbyn to remain as the party’s leader.
However Corbyn has said he will not quit and a leadership challenge, possibly from Angela Eagle, is likely.
Mr Corbyn has stood firm despite facing an overwhelming vote of no confidence by the party’s MPs and mass resignations from his shadow cabinet, repeatedly referencing his popular support among Labour’s grass roots.
Labour MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn have reportedly conceded the embattled Labour leader can not be removed after lengthy negotiations between the party’s deputy leader Tom Watson and union officials failed to resolve the conflict.
Today, MPs said that “teflon” Mr Corbyn would “win easily” if he is on the ballot and the attempts to remove him were ‘finished.
The motion highlights Sir John Chilcot’s withering criticism of Tony Blair’s government and praises Mr Corbyn for apologising on behalf of the Labour Party for the “disastrous decision to join the war on Iraq”.
But he said the party could not function if its MPs did not back its leader.
“The Labour Party is splitting at a critical time when we should be pulling together instead”.
The former deputy prime minister warned Labour MPs, however, to “think twice before you go that road”.
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Corbyn, on the other hand, has large levels of support among party members.
