A spokesman for Mr Watson said: “Tom Watson has received an apology from (press aide) James Mills on behalf of the junior press officer in Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign team who released this list by mistake”.
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Frank Field is on a “hit list” for deselection drawn up by Jeremy Corbyn’s team identifying Labour MPs accused of abusing the party leader and his allies. If your brother sins against you go and tell him between you and him and try and resolve it.
“Just at a time when we were, I think, really rebuilding relations very, very well throughout the summer, I hope it hasn’t set us back and we’ll certainly have a conversation with all those that were involved”.
One of the MPs to complain said this amounted to “harassment and bullying”.
Just one in four voters are satisfied with Jeremy Corbyn’s performance as leader of the opposition, according to new polling published today. “There was information put out there, which is statements made by colleagues on the record and is all out there in the public domain”, the leader said.
Mr Corbyn’s team reissued the document without the list of MPs and the “misdemeanours” they had been listed for.
Live on the BBC, the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark threatened to sue the Labour leader for calling him out after an abusive comment.
The Labour leader said to continue cutting investment was “an act of unpardonable folly” and said June’s referendum vote to leave the European Union was actually a “decisive rejection” of austerity, “poverty pay”, zero-hours contracts and a housing shortage.
May-Miller said the list had “made politics personal in the worst possible way” rather than “setting the example that hopefully we want to set”.
“It was a briefing note, and it shouldn’t have gone out, and we apologise for that”.
On Europe we will continue to demand the British people be given their say on the final deal in a referendum.
Meanwhile, illustrating the double standards of party elites, the list includes Jess Phillips MP, who told Corbyn ally Diane Abbott MP to “f*ck off”, without any response from Labour HQ.
Owen Smith will round off his Labour leadership campaign by accusing Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters of “bullying and intimidation” and claiming there are “five days left to save the Labour Party”.
“I’m very confident that as a party we are coming together”, he said.
“That is a dereliction of duty, that’s not leadership – that is Jeremy telling his trolls online to carry on”.
The MP wrote to Corbyn to say he would be “extremely grateful if you could outline to me exactly what form this abuse is supposed to have taken”.
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This hostile list obviously makes it rather hard for any of the 13 MPs named on it to agree to serve on the Labour frontbench, but given who is on that list, it was unlikely they would be asked and even more unlikely that any of them would have said yes.
