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Left-wing activists have attempted to seize key party positions in the east London seat held by Labour MP Stella Creasy, the Standard has learned.

Two bids to hijack Labour posts in Walthamstow have been fought off and a further battle is expected at a crunch meeting next week. Political and trade union activists, and some Labour members, met in Ms Creasy’s constituency and discussed MP reselection.

An article one group circulated backs shedding “all but the most obviously Left-wing MPs”, adding it is “absolutely essential” those opposing Jeremy Corbyn are ditched. Moderate Labour MPs fear hundreds of new members enlisted since his election are being deployed to take over local party branches. In the past three weeks Left-wingers in Wal-thamstow have used small meetings to spark two challenges to party officers. Further bids to replace established people with Leftists are expected at the constituency AGM on Thursday.

A Labour insider said: “This confirms the degree of organisation, thought and calculation that’s going into remaking Labour in the image of the hard Left. There are whispers about deselection in Westminster, and genuine fear.”

London Labour and Ms Creasy, who stood for the party’s deputy leadership in summer but lost, declined to comment.

The Labour Representation Committee, a group aiming to “fight for power” inside Labour, has re-emerged in Walthamstow and taken on the brand People’s Momentum.

Another group, Waltham Forest for Corbyn, held an event last month attended by the LRC, Unite union activists, some Labour members and the Socialist Party.

Pictures online show one attendee was Nancy Taaffe, daughter of Militant leader Peter Taaffe, who was expelled from Labour in the Eighties. He is now Socialist Party general secretary.

Pictures of notes taken at the event show “reselection of MPs” was discussed. An article soon after on Waltham Forest for Corbyn’s Facebook page encourages new Labour members to “trigger reselection for all but the most obviously Left-wing MPs”.