Jeremy Corbyn walked out of a Christmas karaoke party for Labour MPs where they sang Tony Blair’s 1997 Election-winning anthem Things Can Only Get Better accompanied by chants of: ‘We Want Tony!’

The humiliated Opposition leader left as MPs insulted him at the noisy booze-up. They also sang The Beatles’ Back In The USSR – an attack on him for failing to take a tougher line over Russia’s bombing of Aleppo in Syria – and Madonna’s Like A Virgin, a dig at his ridiculed claim to have been forced to sit on the floor of a crowded Virgin train.

Dozens of Labour MPs joined arms to sing D-Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better and used their own secret ‘anti-Corbyn’ WhatsApp messaging system to mock him and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, defiantly posting a video of themselves in full voice.

In harmony: female Labour MPs at the karaoke party included from left, Jess Phillips, who once told Diane Abbott to 'f*** off'; Stella Creasy, who has claimed Labour is 'running on empty'; Lucy Powell, who has said Corbyn was 'brutally exposed' in the EU referendum; and anti-Semitic hate victim Luciana Berger

The karaoke revolt was part of a Labour ‘Christmas Uprising’ against Mr Corbyn last week as:

A Labour peer suggested to his face he should follow the lead of unpopular French Socialist president Francois Hollande – and quit.

At a thinly attended meeting of his demoralised Shadow Cabinet, a glum Mr Corbyn said it was quicker to name the people present than list who was absent.

A Labour MP revealed his contempt for Corbyn in a rude Christmas card to the party leader.

The karaoke party occurred on Tuesday at the Westminster Kitchen bar and grill, one of Mr Corbyn’s favourite haunts. Attended by about 60 Labour MPs, he hoped the sing-song would restore harmony with backbench critics. But it ended in a musical protest and complaints from angry residents about noise.

MPs LET RIP... MPs posted messages on social media from the party venue, a restaurant owned by Corbyn’s friend Ibrahim ‘Kebab King’ Dogus, below. ‘Jeremy and co left after I sang Back In The USSR and everyone sang Things Can Only Get Better.’ Ilford South MP Mike Gapes, 11.08pm ‘Let’s ask John McDonnell to sing Money For Nothing.’ Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray, 8.31pm Advertisement

Mike Gapes sang Back In The USSR – a jibe at Corbyn’s pro-Russian sympathies. Gapes, who has previously called on Corbyn to give an unambiguous condemnation of Russia’s bombing of Syria, declared: ‘I dedicate this song to the downfall of the Soviet Union. It’s never been more topical!’ Gapes later boasted he had sparked Corbyn’s walkout. While Corbyn and McDonnell glad-handed MPs in a charm offensive, another anti-Corbyn MP, Ian Murray, used Whats-App to goad McDonnell, accused of spendthrift policies – joking: ‘Let’s ask John McDonnell to sing [Dire Straits’] Money For Nothing!’

When Edinburgh MP Murray and Stoke MP Ruth Smeeth grabbed the microphone and sang Things Can Only Get Better, dozens of fellow moderate MPs joined a rousing chorus. One shouted: ‘We want Tony!’ Corbyn and McDonnell, together with Corbyn cronies Baroness Chakrabarti and Left-wing MP Richard Burgon, had exited amid jeers.

Murray resigned from Labour’s Front Bench this year with a devastating attack on Corbyn. Smeeth was targeted by pro-Corbyn, anti-Semitic trolls. Labour MP Mary Glindon sang Like A Virgin and teased Corbyn for refusing to join in, saying: ‘Go on Jeremy, sing I Did It My Way.’

Significantly, Corbyn’s deputy, Tom Watson, a constant thorn in his side, stayed on at the event.

Other Labour MPs at the party included Lucy Powell, who said Corbyn was ‘brutally exposed’ in the EU referendum; anti-Semitic hate victim Luciana Berger; Stella Creasy, who has claimed Labour is ‘running on empty’ and Jess Phillips who once told Diane Abbott to ‘f*** off’.

Westminster Kitchen owner, Kurdish-born Ibrahim Dogus, known as London’s ‘Kebab King’, is a longstanding Labour supporter and friend of the party leader. MPs partied towards midnight, and the food and drink bill came to more than £3,000.

LABOUR MP SENDS CORBYN A VERY UNSEASONAL GREETING The message inside this card makes it hard to believe that Neil Coyle was one of the MPs who nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership. Little more than a year later, he writes to Corbyn: ‘I hope you have a better Christmas than Labour’s poll ratings.’ The Bermondsey MP has said he regrets nominating Corbyn, whose team put Coyle, 37, on a ‘hit list’ of critics this summer. Advertisement

Corbyn faced more abuse at a packed meeting with Labour peers when ex-union chief Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe told him to emulate Francois Hollande who is not standing for re-election as France’s president after dire poll ratings. ‘Francois Hollande has decided to stand down in the interests of his party,’ said Brooke, who was ennobled by Blair. ‘What do you think about that?’

Labour sources said there was an ‘excruciating silence’ when more than half his Shadow Cabinet failed to turn up for a meeting last week.