Female MPs urge Corbyn to tackle sexist abuse

Ms Nandy, who resigned alongside Mr Smith from the shadow cabinet last month, said the party had ignored “too many genuine concerns of traditional supporters over low pay, unemployment and immigration”.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has his picture taken during an event in Manchester.

“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in”.

Owen Smith, the other candidate for the leadership, has pledged to campaign with “integrity and decency” while Angela Eagle – who was briefly in the race – was urging colleagues to “keep it comradely”.

Mr McCluskey said the job of “rightwingers” was to secretly stir up trouble for Mr Corbyn on social media and boost claims the Labour leader is inspiring intimidation and harassment.

He said he had not made the incident public until now ” because I find it shocking and embarrassing, and nearly unbelievable”.

It should have been left in its original form because it, more than anything else, reflected the true values that the Labour Party stood for, and if any real changes are to be made to rid this country of the yoke of Tory-ism, it should be re-instated as soon as possible and everyone, members, MPs and affiliated organisations, work to that effect.

“I know people are angry about actions that have been taken but where we have disagreement in our party we settle it through democratic means – no coups, no intimidation, no abuse”. “We are a social movement and we will win the next general election only as a social movement”, he is expected to say.

“Rape threats, death threats, smashed cars and bricks through windows are disgusting and totally unacceptable in any situation”, the letter said.

“The simple words of condemnation offered in response are inadequate”. We expect swift and tangible action against those who commit such acts.

“What happens in Parliament is very, very important – that is why many of us have sought office in Parliament in order to effect those changes – but changes come because people want those changes to come”.

He said it was essential that the party learned the lessons of the general election defeats of 2010 and 2015 if it was to succeed next time. We can not go on as we were before. “That outrage is being organised by you – party members, trade unionists – and it is only when we come together and campaign we win”, he will tell them.

He concludes: “When I watched Jeremy’s interview on Newsnight last night, I am afraid I could no longer tolerate the hypocrisy of him talking about a kinder, gentler politics when I knew for a fact that he had proposed using my family against me in an attempt to bully me in to submission because he didn’t like something I said”. Electoral success is never a given, it is hard work. “We have a mountain to climb to win a general election and that’s why we have to change how we do things”.

“The leader of the Labour Party was proposing to address an issue with one of his own MPs by ringing his dad”.

Labour coup plotters have been planning to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn since before he was even elected.