Labour received more than 180,000 applications to sign up as registered supporters, each paying £25 to get their vote – a total of more than £4.5 million for the party coffers.
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However, he has fallen out with young Labour supporters and most of his own MPs, who say he failed to press home the Labour policy of remaining in the European Union at the referendum on June 23.
Ms Eagle, who attracted 72 nominations from MPs and MEPs, will now support Mr Smith’s challenge as a unity candidate.
It comes after Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron suggested he would be open to forming a new centre-left party as Labour MPs grew increasingly frustrated in their attempts to remove Mr Corbyn. I am joining again and stating that I am joining to support the Labour Party so that they don’t block my membership.
He added, with a smile: “I have an ability to very conveniently forget some of the unpleasant things that were said about me”.
She said: “I would like to thank my own supporters for the faith that they showed in me in this leadership election”.
The veteran socialist has clung on even though three-quarters of the party’s lawmakers say they have lost confidence in his leadership and Welsh MP Owen Smith has launched a challenge to oust him.
“This is a deliberate act to stop us from supporting and voting for Jeremy Corbyn”.
“This party is capable of winning a general election and if I am leader of the party I will be that prime minister”.
In a speech in London supported by Labour frontbencher Kate Osamor, and activists, the Labour leader said: “It is not only women who face workplace discrimination but disabled workers, the youngest and oldest worker, black and ethnic minority workers”.
May said: “Labour may be about to have several months of fighting and tearing itself apart”.
Jezza is favourite to win the postal ballot of Labour’s members – whose ranks he said had swelled to more than 500,000.
Almost 200,000 people have applied for a vote in the Labour leadership contest in an apparent boost for Jeremy Corbyn’s hopes of seeing off a challenge from Owen Smith. “We need to have a strong and united Labour Party to take the fight to the Tories and heal our country”.
A YouGov poll for The Times found that if Mr Corbyn stood against Mr Smith then he would win 56% of the vote while Mr Smith would win 34%.
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In an combative performance, she also sought to highlight Labour differences over Trident, pointedly praising the 141 Labour MPs who “put the national interest first” and voted in favour of renewing the nuclear deterrent in Monday’s Commons vote.
