Owen Smith MP – who is challenging Mr Corbyn for the top spot in the party – said “something had gone badly wrong” since Mr Corbyn took charge amid fresh claims of abuse being directed at critics of the leader by activists.
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Although the Labour leader said he would offer “a hand of friendship” to his MPs, 80 per cent of whom oppose him, he raised the prospect that they could be deselected before the next general election.
Ms Eagle told the Daily Telegraph: “I think he (Mr Corbyn) has contributed to this”.
“The leader of the Labour party was proposing to address an issue with one of his own MPs by ringing his dad”.
In a speech in London he will say a Labour administration would require firms to publish the new equality pay audits “detailing pay, grade and hours of every job. alongside data on recognised equality characteristics”.
“If we say we are going to start restricting then it works both ways, it will also restrict British people going to live and work in Europe”. It’s them that have been up there, not me.
“But the problem is, under his leadership, there has been a culture of bullying, I fear”.
“For us to nearly lose Blaenau Gwent, for us to lose the Rhondda, these were hammer blows to the Labour Party and that’s something Jeremy Corbyn needed to respond to, but he’s been poor at taking Labour’s case to the Tories in Westminster and he’s not been successful in going beyond slogans”.
“I regret the language that has been used by all of them”.
He is widely believed to enjoy the support of most of the party members, who have the vote in the internal election.
“I think we have done that spectacularly well – we now have the largest membership we’ve ever had”.
The local branch of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) branded the challenge to Mr Corbyn’s leadership as a “coup” and condemned St Helens North MP Conor McGinn’s support for challenger Owen Smith.
In his article, McGinn said he was on a parliamentary trip to Washington in May when he learned that Corbyn was annoyed about an interview he had given in which he discussed the party’s disconnect with working-class communities.
More than 183,000 people paid £25 to apply to vote and Mr Corbyn’s team claim it is “reasonable to assume” the majority of those will back him.
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“We need to change that, we can not continue – it doesn’t matter who wins this leadership campaign, those wounds will still be there and they need to be mended”, she told BBC Radio 4’s World at One. “We need to listen and develop policies that are relevant today and fix the damage and hurt suffered by so many people, and go on to build a nation that proves it truly cares about people by the good quality of life experienced by all”. Women in Labour have found themselves subject to terrible misogynistic abuse, some of our Jewish MPs have been subject to anti-Semitic abuse, some of our Asian MPs have been subject to abuse. We are part of but not the entirety of the Labour Party and the Labour movement.
