Labour Party members who joined before January 12 qualify to vote in the leadership contest.
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A Labour party spokesman said: “The NEC has agreed that as the incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will go forward onto the ballot without requiring nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party and the European Parliamentary Labour Party”.
Anti-Corbyn MPs have accused the shadow chancellor of moving to block a “peace deal” for an orderly transition of power by talking Mr Corbyn out of resigning in the wake of the overwhelming majority of the parliamentary party voting no confidence in his leadership.
Foster, who stood as a parliamentary candidate for Camborne and Redruth past year, argued that Corbyn should not be allowed to “self-nominate and use support external to the parliamentary party to maintain his leadership”.
“We have a wider gap between the haves and have nots in this country than any of us have known in our lifetimes and it is for the Labour Party, our party, to fight to reduce that gap”.
Angela Eagle has launched a leadership challenge to Mr Corbyn, who has the overwhelming backing of grassroots party members and strong support from the unions.
In a statement, Corbyn said the incident was “extremely concerning” and that he had also been subjected to threats.
This means that the outcome of the leadership contest could potentially be determined by which faction of Labour party supporters is more willing to part with £25: Corbynistas, or moderates who wish to see him removed.
“I did not vote for Jeremy when he stood, but this is not about politics, and at the present time I, too, think that Jeremy should have a right to be on the ballot but not an automatic right”, he said.
Pledging to campaign “on all the things that matter”, the leader said anyone who had any disagreements should “come and talk about it”.
John McTernan, Tony Blair’s former director of political operations, told Sky News that trade unions who voted with Mr Corbyn had “stabbed the party in the heart”.
She said she had eventually chose to launch a formal challenge because he was unwilling to stand down and she could provide the real leadership he could not.
A formal contest will take place at the Labour Party’s autumn conference at the end of September.
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Votes are counted on the basis of one person one vote – something that paved the way for Mr Corbyn’s landslide victory past year.
