“The problem is most of his Labour MPs have more allegiance to Tony Blair than they do to Jeremy Corbyn so we now have a hopelessly divided Labour Party”, Sidney Cordle, the party leader, said.
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A number of senior voices have even warned that the party is at risk of splitting. The Labour leader released a video through his Twitter account on Monday with a defiant call for togetherness for all his party’s members.
The link to “treachery” is thought to be a reference to the ongoing rift within the Labour party.
“If people want to challenge him in the leadership then there’s a proper process to do so”.
The EU referendum result represents a political natural disaster, reflecting an insurgent and angry working class who have lost confidence in all politicians, and are desperate for an end to decades of cuts, failing living standards, privatisation, and deteriorating public services.
Corbyn was elected on the biggest mandate of any leader in British history on an anti-cuts, anti-war and anti-racism platform, securing more votes than all of the other candidates combined.
Writing in The Guardian he said a “political sea-change” was taking place, with a schism between the public and the establishment revealed in the Chilcot Report responsible for his rise to prominence.
“We’ll be sending a letter to Mr Corbyn pledging our support, and we’d like him to come to Keighley to meet people here”.
Mr Miliband told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme: “I think the smoke signals over the last couple of days have suggested that talks and negotiations might happen”.
It follows dozens of resignations from the Labour front-bench team and a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn, passed by 172 to 40 Labour MPs on Thursday.
Earlier Mr Watson met former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle and ex-shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith, who are both considering a challenge to Mr Corbyn if he continues to resist calls to go.
Mr Corbyn’s supporters are buoyed by the huge increase in Labour Party membership.
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The talks between Mr Watson and Mr McCluskey, which also involved Parliamentary Labour Party chairman John Cryer and Chief Whip Rosie Winterton, have so far failed to produce a breakthrough. And if he is challenged, many Labour MPs fear he would be re-elected. He has the backing of SW Wilts constituency members, who also believe he is still the right man to take the party forward.
