Joan Ryan has become the eighth former Labour MP to urge people not to vote for the party as she said Jeremy Corbyn was unfit for government and refused to rule out voting for Boris Johnson.

Ms Ryan, the former Labour MP for Enfield, announced last month that she would not be standing for re-election.

Her plea comes after former Labour MPs Ian Austin, Tom Harris, Ivan Lewis, John Woodcock and Gisela Stuart all offered their support to the Tories ahead of the general election next week.

Meanwhile, Michael McCann, former Labour MP for East Kilbride, said he could not vote Labour at the coming election.

Kate Hoey, the former long-serving MP for Vauxhall, said last month in a Telegraph interview that if she was not voting for the DUP she would have voted for either the Brexit Party or Conservatives.

Ms Ryan, who joined the independent group for change earlier this year, urged others to join her in not backing Labour in this election. She refused to rule out voting for the Tories when asked if she would vote for Boris Johnson.

"I haven't made up my mind yet," she said.