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Potential Labour leader hopeful and Wallasey MP Angela Eagle is coming under fire from her own constituency party – and ECHO readers.

The Mersey MP is one of those being tipped to take on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who is facing a vote of no confidence from his own MPs this afternoon.

But Ms Eagle, who was tearful yesterday as she explained why she had joined the majority of her shadow cabinet colleagues in quitting the Labour front bench, is coming under pressure from Labour members in her own constituency.

A letter from the secretary and chair of the Wallasey Constituency Labour Party (CLP) says delegates want the MP to “reject the motion of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn”.

They wrote that a meeting of the CLP was “overwhelmingly behind Jeremy continuing as Labour leader” in the email sent at 11.36pm on Sunday, June 26, after the first day of shadow cabinet resignations.

The letter said: “The idea that the Labour party would rather miss the chance to capitalise on the splits in the Tory party by in fighting was not acceptable to members.

“On behalf of the constituency I would ask you to make a clear public statement of support for him.”

The letter was retweeted by Jeremy Corbyn loyalist Diane Abbott MP

Ms Eagle is not the only Merseyside MP facing pressure from their grassroots members. Her sister Maria Eagle is also said to have received a letter from party members urging her to back Jeremy Corbyn and a member of Wavertree CLP said members had written to Luciana Berger about the leadership.

A party insider said Labour MPs in Merseyside are starting to fear for their seats as a backlash starts against those who are opposing party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

On the ECHO Facebook page there were more than 200 comments on the article about her possible candidacy for the leadership.

Many were highly critical of the MP ranging from those such as Alan Beswick who called MS Eagle a “traitor to all people who hold socialist principles dear” to many castigating her along with those shadow cabinet members who had quit in recent days, such as Natalie Barton-Holmes who said “The lot of them should be booted out for good.”

However, there were a few supportive messages for the MP, with William Robert Wedekind saying “Yes. And I’ve asked her to stand. Been in and paid by subs to The Labour Party for 20 years - not one of the millions who joined for a few weeks during last years leadership election.”