Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), said there was a clear mood among the party’s grassroots members who swept Mr Corbyn to the leadership that they wanted MPs who supported his policies.
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Speaking on Radio 5 live’s Pienaar’s Politics, shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy said people who bully, intimidate or harass MPs should be removed from the party and she welcomed the strong message from Mr Corbyn that this would not be tolerated.
Despite Mr Corbyn’s declaration of opposition to air strikes, 21 MPs in his own frontbench team voted for the action, including three Labour whips charged with enforcing party discipline.
In light of Labour’s byelection victory and his success in securing support among a party majority against the airstrikes in Syria, the Labour leader took a bolder approach in saying the coalition “has repeatedly called it right”.
And he called on Mr Corbyn to distance himself from the Stop the War Coalition – which Mr Corbyn once chaired -one of the leading opponents of military action in Syria, accusing them of making a series of “ugly comments” since Wednesday’s vote.
They are the shadow cabinet, the parliamentary Labour party and the wider membership.
Jeremy Corbyn is facing calls to pull out of a fundraising event for the Stop the War coalition, amid controversy over the group’s comments on the Paris terror attacks and its attacks on Labour MPs.
He added: “People realise that if Labour is to fulfil its founding goal of transforming our economic and political system into a more equal, free and truly democratic society, which provides security and life-changing opportunities to the British people, then there is no going back”.
Mr Hunt, who decided not to serve under Mr Corbyn, said talk of a “purge” of opponents seemed a bit of a “Sunday story” but he urged Mr Corbyn to keep those who disagreed with him over Syria, such as Hilary Benn, in their current positions.
“We had a brilliant election result on Thursday in Oldham, who would have expected that at time such as this we’d be (ending) up increasing our share of the vote, that is brilliant news, a great new MP and we should be taking the fight to the Tories”.
“I have never received this sort of personal abuse and intolerance to any other point of view to the one that I have been expressing, and it’s unprecedented”.
“I think he would benefit from doing that, and I think he still would benefit in starting to lead in that sense”.
Meanwhile, shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith dismissed reports that Mr Corbyn was planning to get rid of dissenters in a New Year shadow cabinet reshuffle.
Ms Buck said: “There are real differences of view as to the location, capacity and operational cohesion of these 70,000, not least that for many, their over-riding objective is defeating Assad. I think people responded to that at the ballot box”. They invaded Iraq and now they have voted to bomb Syria.
The message to Mr Danczuk described him as “f****** scum”, adding: “I’m going to find you and do you some serious damage”.
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Critics say the bombing raids may actually help Isis recruit more supporters by presenting western countries as foreign invaders.
