Although the Labour leader said he would offer “a hand of friendship” to his MPs, 80 per cent of whom oppose him, he raised the prospect that they could be deselected before the next general election.
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The party estimates that roughly 183,000 people signed up to vote in the last 48 hours, with each paying £25 a pop.
Labour Party members and supporters will vote on Corbyn and Smith by postal ballot over the summer and the result will be announced on September 24.
“I am interested that he refers to the situation of some workers who might have some job insecurity and potentially unscrupulous bosses”, she told Corbyn.
Owen Smith will challenge current leader Jeremy Corbyn in a two-horse race following the close of nominations yesterday.
She said: “Governing Britain is Labour’s objective, and I am pleased to support Owen Smith as the party’s next leader”.
The former leadership contender, who stepped down to allow Owen Smith to take on Jeremy Corbyn, claims police advised her not to hold public sessions over security fears.
And this morning Labour MP Conor McGinn claimed Mr Corbyn had planned to call his father to settle a dispute between the pair over something McGinn said in an interview.
But she also picked up where Cameron left off last week, laying into the opposition Labour Party, whose leader Jeremy Corbyn is locked in a bitter internal power struggle in which the only female candidate to replace him dropped out on Tuesday.
Mr Corbyn won the leadership with 59.5 per cent of the vote past year but has now lost the support of most of his MPs.
“I appeal to them to work together to put that case forward, because we owe it to the people that founded this party, that support this party, the half-million who give their money and their time to help this party survive and strengthen and grow”.
“I hope they will recognise that and come on board”.
She added: “The Labour Party may be about to spend several months fighting and tearing itself apart”.
Mr Corbyn’s office dismissed the allegation as “untrue” but St Helens North MP Mr McGinn accused the party leader of hypocrisy for talking about a “kinder, gentler politics” when “he had proposed using my family against me”.
In a statement on his Facebook page, former Labour leader Ed Miliband urged party members to support Smith.
“We’ve seen his lack of leadership recently with the incident involving our MP Ruth Smeeth”. But hopefully, come the autumn, things will be resolved and we can make sure that those people who depend on us to support them in their lives get the support they need.
A brick was thrown through a window of the party’s office last week after she announced that she meant to run – although she has since dropped out and said she will be backing Owen Smith.
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She also asks why the people re-joining the Labour Party did not stay and work for what they believe in within it?
