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Ian Murray, the Scottish Labour MP closest to the breakaway group, has warned Jeremy Corbyn he faces a deeper split and further Labour backbench resignations unless he shifts ground on Europe and anti-semitism.

In a statement issued on Monday, Murray, the staunchly anti-Brexit MP for Edinburgh South seen by many as a potential recruit to the new independent party, said:

The current Labour leadership is breaking the broad church that this party once built its electoral success upon – a broad church which delivered Labour governments that lifted millions and millions of people out of poverty. The challenge now is for Jeremy Corbyn to listen and learn, and decide if he wants to keep the Labour Party together or if he will continue to foster a culture of bullying and intolerance where his own MPs feel unwelcome and are being forced out.

Murray has refused to rule out joining the breakaway group but said at the weekend he wanted Labour to remain a broad church, and wanted to see a Labour government.