“But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him”.
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The astonishing developments came a day after three-quarters of Labour MPs voted for a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn.
If there are more than two candidates, the field will be whittled down next week in a vote by Tory MPs.
At Monday’s Momentum rally in support of Corbyn, a string of union representatives from Unite to the Fire Brigades Union pledged their allegiance to the leader.
It comes just days after Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale joined the chorus of calls for the left-winger to go, insisting she could not lead the party in Scotland without the support of her MSPs.
“I had some troubles with people in the Labour party, some of them ideological, some of them to do with other issues”.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) will today demand to be installed as the official opposition in the House of Commons, claiming Labour has descended into a “crisis-ridden shambles”.
Rebels who refused to accept Mr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell were compared to people who still believed the earth was flat. “It would be better for the party if everybody in the party could see what is happening”.
Mr Watson apologised for the chaos in the party over the past week.
The letter states: “Our enemy is not Jeremy Corbyn – it is the Tory Party and its plans to use the European Union referendum as a fig leaf to inflict further cuts to the councils we represent”.
Labour suffered large losses in the last general election and was virtually eradicated by the SNP in the traditional Labour heartland of Scotland.
LABOUR MPs behind the coup against Jeremy Corbyn are facing an angry backlash from grassroots activists who overwhelmingly support the party leader.
The indignity continued Wednesday in the most public way possible: At the weekly political joust known as Prime Minister’s Questions, soon-to-be-departed Prime Minister David Cameron told Corbyn: “For heaven’s sake, man, go!”.
But if he doesn’t, a Labour MP such as former Shadow Business Secretary Angela Eagle could trigger a contest by standing against him. Deputy leader Tom Watson has ruled himself out.
If Labour members vote to keep Corbyn as leader, which seems likely, the party will face its biggest crisis since it split in the 1980s.
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The Labour leader, however, remained defiant, with a spokesman saying: “Jeremy Corbyn is determined to carry on with the job he was democratically elected to do”.
