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GONE WITHIN WEEKS: Labour Bigwigs Plot To OUST Commie Corbyn

FAILED Labour boss Jeremy Corbyn is set to be ousted by angry Labour grandees “within weeks,” it has been claimed.

On Friday Mr Corbyn indicated he will quit as Labour leader next year, and has said he won’t lead the party into another Election after his party suffered its worst General Election defeat since 1935.

Labour bigwigs, however, want him gone within weeks and the 70-year-old Marxist came under intense pressure to stand down immediately.

He was rounded on, however, by angry Labour MPs, peers, and defeated candidates, who said his leadership was to blame for their catastrophic showing and called on him to go.

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Labour former home secretary Lord Blunkett told the BBC: “I think Jeremy should go now.

“There should be an interim leader agreed between the National Executive and the parliamentary party – perhaps somebody like Hilary Benn.”

Veteran MP Dame Margaret Hodge, a long-standing critic, said the result represented the rejection of the entire Corbyn project and that it was time for him to quit.

She said that, under his leadership, Labour had become the “nasty party”, with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.

“People just didn’t trust the economics, the confetti of promises that was thrown at the public without any clear and honest way they were going to be paid for,” she told the BBC.

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“People didn’t trust us with the national security of the nation. People didn’t trust Mr Corbyn with looking after them.

“Labour has become the nasty party. I am one of the victims of that with the anti-Semitism.”
Phil Wilson, who lost Tony Blair’s former seat of Sedgefield to the Tories, said attempts by the leadership to put the result down to Brexit was “mendacious nonsense”.

“Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was a bigger problem. To say otherwise is delusional. The party’s leadership went down like a lead balloon on the doorstep,” he said.

CLINGING ON

Speaking about the timetable for him to leave, Mr Corbyn said: “The National Executive will have to meet, of course, in the very near future and it is up to them. It will be in the early part of next year.”

Jeremy Corbyn ‘sad’ over election result, saying Brexit played a major part”

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He added: “I have pride in our manifesto that we put forward, and all the policies we put forward, which actually had huge public support.

FAILURE TO BACK BREXIT

“But this election was taken over ultimately by Brexit and we as a party represent people who voted both Remain and Leave.

“My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together, because ultimately the country has to come together.”

Positioning in the race to become the next Labour leader has already started, with ardent Remainer David Lammy confirming he was considering putting his name forward.

“Of course I’m thinking about it, because people like me that have been in the party for 20 years have got now to do a lot of heavy lifting to get us into the right place,” the Tottenham MP told BBC Radio 5Live’s Emma Barnett programme.

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Others being touted to take over include Lisa Nandy, who represents Leave-voting Wigan, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Angela Rayner, Sir Keir Starmer, Jess Phillips and Emily Thornberry.

Responding to a disastrous night for Labour, which saw a string of its strongholds fall to the Tories, Mr Corbyn said he would not be leading the party into another general election.

But speaking after retaining his Islington North seat, he said he intended to take Labour through a “process of reflection” while it considered the way forward.

“I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward,” he said.

“And I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future.”

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Additional reporting by PA Media

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