British Prime Minister David Cameron Wednesday told the leader of the main opposition Labour party Jeremy Corbyn, who is facing a revolt from MPs, to step down in the national interest.
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of his fellow Labour members of Parliament on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Labour leader said: “Jeremy Corbyn is determined to carry on with the job he was democratically elected to do”. It is simply immoral and wrong.
He was briefly heckled, with one man yelling: “What about Europe?” We need to sort that as soon as possible.
Many Labour MPs are angry at Corbyn for what they see as his lacklustre performance in the “Remain” campaign.
“The real issue comes down, however, to whether we decide we are a party of power and not a party of protest”.
A group of 77 Labour councillors, including some who voted for him, has also distributed a letter urging Mr Corbyn to “make way for the new leadership”.
“I think he’s going to go”. “This afternoon I went to the Polish Centre in Hammersmith to express my support and sympathy to them”.
The next Conservative party leader will take over by early September and will face a decision on whether to seek an election to gain a public mandate.
Globalisation Former prime minister Gordon Brown said he believed Mr Corbyn would resign following such a massive loss of support in the parliamentary party.
“It was like a lynch mob without the rope”, he said.
But Corbyn has refused to accept responsibility for what critics see as his key role in the “remain” campaign’s defeat. “What we are watching is a leadership coup”.
The MP for Wallasey is perceived to be a unifying candidate who can attract support from the “soft left” – those on the left-wing of the party who are not supporting Mr Corbyn.
The calls came just a day after Corbyn suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of his fellow Labour members of Parliament, with 172 of them expressing no confidence in his leadership through a secret ballot.
“Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite behind my leadership at a critical time for our country”.
It did find “an occasionally toxic atmosphere is in danger of shutting down free speech within the party” and called on Labour Party members to refrain from using Nazi imagery and metaphors when discussing current events in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. “It might be in my party’s interests for him to sit there; it is not in the national interest”.
In unprecedented scenes, UKIP’s only MP, Douglas Carswell, was booed by other MPs at the session, in the wake of a cataclysmic vote which has thrown the markets, and left Britain in what Dutch PM Mark Rutte this week called a collapse “politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically”.
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Barber wrote: “Corbyn wants to split the party I supported all my life”. The mechanism is him resigning.
