Mary Creagh, the former MP for Wakefield, said she had given Mr Corbyn the “hairdryer” treatment

Jeremy Corbyn was savaged by Labour MPs and accused of incompetence and misjudgments last night during a brutal inquest into the party’s worst defeat in more than 80 years.

In a two-hour meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party, MPs also said that the leadership contest should focus on who could win over the country, as opposed to party members.

Hours earlier Mr Corbyn was subjected to a 20-minute public tirade by a defeated Labour candidate who accused him of betraying working-class voters. Mary Creagh, the former MP for Wakefield, said she had given Mr Corbyn the “hairdryer” treatment after she saw him at Westminster while clearing out her Commons office.

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He went on to tell the meeting that he was “very sorry for the result,