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Jeremy Corbyn’s shambolic leadership style is exposed today by three concerned Labour sources who claim paranoia and “sheer incompetence” are pushing the party to disaster.

The Islington MP’s key players spent hours in “rambling” meetings discussing possible plots against him and considered sending “moles” to spy on his Shadow Cabinet, said one.

The source – who spent months working inside the leader’s office – also claimed rather than beating the Tories, Corbyn’s team’s main aim is simply to “take control of the Labour Party”.

Another source – who worked at Labour HQ – told how the leader sat silently in key weekly meetings, munching noodles while others took charge.

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And, in a damning indictment of Mr Corbyn’s “open and honest brand of politics”, a third source, who worked on the EU campaign, claimed questions asked by audience members at Mr Corbyn’s events were secretly written in advance by the leader’s office, and handed out to friendly Corbynistas on the day.

The Mirror launched an investigation after one source came forward with allegations about Mr Corbyn’s poor performance.

After a second and third source, from different areas of the party machine, agreed to talk, a picture emerged of Corbyn’s lack of commitment to Labour’s EU stance and his team’s alleged incompetence.

All three sources were reluctant to talk, but did so because of loyalty to the party. For them, Mr Corbyn’s EU poor referendum campaign effort was the last straw.

We agreed not to reveal their identities.

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The EU campaign source claimed Mr Corbyn’s top aides issued a direct order “not to get sucked in” to Labour’s campaign to keep Britain in the EU. His pro-EU campaign speeches were repeatedly watered down, and events would suddenly be cancelled at the 11th hour, it was alleged.

After seeing junior supporters being given pre-prepared questions at EU

events, the source said: “You could see these poor young people trying to rehearse the question they’d been told to ask in front of everyone. It was painful – a farce.”

The Labour HQ source said many of Mr Corbyn’s team are rarely in the office before 10.30am each morning, and that it is “impossible” to get decisions from the man at the top.

The dismayed long-serving Labour staffer described how the leader himself would sit silently through key weekly planning meetings, when whips and others wanted to plan parliamentary business.

Mr Corbyn would often bring noodles or a granola bar and eat them, contributing very little, the source claimed.

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“There was just no leadership at all,” the source said. “It was a joke. They were completely pointless meetings."

The leader’s office source said Labour staffers were frequently left “furious” by Mr Corbyn’s performances in the Commons, highlighting his decision not to attack David Cameron over the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith in March as a low point.

A documentary by Vice News last month showed Mr Corbyn removing references to IDS from his statement to Parliament, saying it was “not up to me” to point out the Government is in crisis.

In the opinion of this source it was “nothing to do with politics”. “It is sheer incompetence,” the source claimed.

They also revealed: “We had strategy meetings, but they were just hours of rambling discussions where nothing was decided. It would mainly be paranoia. Most of the observations were dominated by who might be making moves against Jeremy, who had said stuff that may be unhelpful.”

Open hostility to most of the Parliamentary Labour Party was also alleged. We were even told of a plot by the leader’s office to spy on weekly meetings chaired by shadow cabinet minister Jon Ashworth on how to attack the Tories in Parliament.

“They were very rude about Ashworth’s weekly meeting,” the source said. “They told us – ‘someone needs to go in as a mole. We need a mole in there’.”

The source went on: “The aides were always incredibly paranoid about members of the shadow cabinet. They would systematically not trust them.”

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The source said the view of “sheer incompetence” was widely shared by many Labour staffers who have worked closely with Mr Corbyn – and that one or two have even said they could not vote for Labour again while he is leader.

“I can’t think of a single element that the leader’s office actually does well – apart from to be paranoid,” the source added.

Campaign chief Alan Johnson, the former Home Secretary, publicly accused Corbyn of not pulling his weight in Labour’s bid to keep Britain in.

An MP involved in the campaign said: “The only time Alan Johnson spoke to him was when he did events with him. They wouldn’t even take Alan’s phone calls.”

Members of Mr Corbyn’s office are “very hostile to the EU” and “think it’s a neo-liberal, capitalist thing”, one source said. “They would take things that sounded too positive and sounded too similar to the Labour ‘In’ campaign out of his speeches. And not just once or twice – consistently.

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“I think it was deliberate sabotage.”

Mr Corbyn’s team still insist he was right to strike a more eurosceptic message in the campaign, as it was actually far more in tune with the wider country than the official Labour approach.

But the source said: “If you’re trying to make a separate case, then make that case. Don’t go on holiday in the middle of the campaign (as Mr Corbyn infamously did); don’t take events out of the diary.

“And there is a competence question. His vision of the argument was rambling, full of inconsistencies, not remotely clear.”

Our revelations come after a torrid 10 days for Mr Corbyn in the aftermath of Brexit.

First he was rocked by the mass walk-out of his shadow cabinet and most of his front bench team, before Labour MPs overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence.

Then last Tuesday he was caught on camera moaning to an aide “this seems a bad idea” after inviting cameras to the first meeting of his new-look shadow cabinet.

On Wednesday he had to be dragged away from a camera crew while visiting a Polish community centre as they repeatedly shouted questions about his leadership.

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And on Thursday he spoke at a disastrous anti-Semitism event where Labour MP Ruth Smeeth walked out in tears after being accosted by a Corbyn supporter. Finally yesterday he issued a defiant video message insisting he has no plans to step down.

All our allegations have been dismissed by Mr Corbyn’s team, who insist they remain focused on leading Labour to victory. A spokesman slammed the “anonymous” briefing from sources which he said were designed to undermine the leader.

He said: “This sounds like more anonymous, fictional accounts which are simply aimed at destabilising the leadership.”