Leader comment: Time Labour Party got back to work

It is now time for Labour MPs to put up or shut up and get on a leadership challenge. It is too late now to get behind him.

By The Newsroom Saturday, 2nd July 2016, 12:00 am Updated Thursday, 25th August 2016, 6:11 pm

Jeremy Corbyn has refused to buckle to the pressure. Picture: Greg Macvean

Over the past week we have seen various groupings of discontented Labour MPs do everything they can to pressurise their leader Jeremy Corbyn out of office.

During all this time Mr Corbyn has stood firm, citing his overwhelming mandate from Labour Party members.

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His point is to ask who the leader of the Labour party is suppposed to serve, the membership or the MPs? He has a very valid argument that it is the members, and he has the backing of the members who elected him.

The MPs view is that might render the party unelectable, and a party that cannot be elected might as well not exist.

Over the past few years there has been much talk of the “dislocation” which has grown between people and politics, people and their MPs, and people and their governments.