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Labour's crisis is nearing fever pitch with Deputy Leader Tom Watson telling the Daily Mirror that Jeremy Corbyn ’s position is “untenable” and former minister Angela Eagle preparing a formal leadership challenge.

Nobody can predict where this will end, but it is likely to be messy and in politics not everybody can be a winner, so losers are inevitable.

Our wish remains for Mr Corbyn to accept with dignity and good grace that his leadership is unsuccessful and that he will find it difficult, if not impossible, to convert the voters Labour needs to win power and transform the lives of the people who matter most: working families.

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With Corbyn’s Praetorian Guard of union leaders and activists unsheathing swords and holding shields firm, a battle is inevitable.

But let it be as brief and well-mannered as possible, because a broken Labour Party is of little value – particularly to all those Britons desperate for a government committed to fairness and decency, creating opportunities and delivering fantastic public services.

Play fair, comrades.