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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Jeremy Corbyn’s team has published a roll call of Labour MPs it claims have abused him.
Mr Coyle, who represents Bermondsey & Old Southwark, told the Evening Standard he is confident the three of them have a solid case against the Labour leader.
Mr Smith will add: “We are the party of Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair – not the Party of Jeremy Corbyn or Tony Blair”.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency in north London would be broken up and parts merged into neighboring electoral areas, according to the proposals, though he is expected to remain in parliament by contesting another Labour lawmaker’s seat.
Labour’s Sadiq Khan warned the party leadership not to use the review to get rid of opponents.
The note included leading figures in the party who were name-checked over their alleged behaviour since Jeremy Corbyn took the party’s top job. He said: “Whatever happens in the result of the leadership election next week we’ve all got to come together”.
He said it demonstrated a “lack of leadership” and aimed to perpetuate a “permissive culture of abuse” against Labour politicians, particularly women MPs. “We can all see the truth is that we’re at 26, 27% in the polls – 11 points behind the Tories”, Mr Smith told the BBC.
“I think that when things like this happen publically it just causes a lot of hurt to people”.
“If that is an attack on the leader, then he is really in desperate times”.
“Young people, some ethnic minorities and those in the private rented sector are less likely to register to vote than others”.
Labour has vowed to fight the “unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable” changes proposed by the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales, arguing that the 2015 electoral rolls used to calculate the size of new constituencies were out of date, because they miss out a surge of two million extra voters who signed up to take part in the European Union referendum.
He accused Mr Corbyn of “utter hypocrisy” for having been a serial rebel and now not liking disagreement from his own backbenchers. Ben Bradshaw. and instead of working with Ben to work out why Ben has been so successful and has been a good MP for that constituency, he gets dumped on this list as well.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell’ who chairs Mr Corbyn’s leadership campaign, apologised for the release, saying it had been “inappropriate” and he hoped it did not set back attempts over the summer to rebuild relationships in the party.
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In a debate on Wednesday night, Corbyn appeared to defend the list, which he described as recording “statements made by colleagues on the record”.
