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Wallasey MP and Labour leadership hopeful Angela Eagle is being urged to meet with local party members.

It follows her decision to resign from the Labour front bench and challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the party’s leadership.

However, she has also faced a well publicised reaction from her local party membership which had planned a meeting to deselect her until Labour bosses banned party meetings .

Now the vice chair of the Wallasey Constituency Labour Party (CLP), Paul Davies, has urged the MP to meet with local party members.

In an email to the MP, Mr Davies said: “This is your chance to show the World how much support you still have in your CLP.”

Mr Davies also says that if Ms Eagle feels such a meeting would not be allowed under Labour party rules that it could be organised by another organisation.

The local party official told the ECHO today that they had seen another 100 members join the Wallasey Labour party in the last week, even though Labour bosses have said the new members should not be eligible to vote in the leadership contest.

At the weekend Angela Eagle insisted she is the best candidate to beat Jeremy Corbyn , despite a challenge by Pontypridd MP Owen Smith.

But it has been a turbulent week for the Wallasey MP who had a brick thrown through the window of the building where her constituency office is based in Liscard .

She was also forced to apologise after her Twitter account posted links to an article in the S*n newspaper .

Angela Eagle’s office has been contacted for a comment in response to the email from Mr Davies.

This is the email in full to Angela Eagle

Angela,

I think it would be very good for democracy if you were to convene a meeting of members in Wallasey or, if you feel that this would contravene NEC instructions, attend a meeting convened by another organisation such as Wirral TUC with you as main speaker.

Your members need to hear from you about why you resigned from the Shadow Cabinet, the accusations you have levelled against them of entryism, intimidation and homophobia face to face rather than on the TV or in the press.

You say there is trouble being caused for you in the local Party by only a small number of members who were expelled in the 1990s. If you name the people who were expelled I am sure we could ask them to say nothing at the all members meeting.

This is your chance to show the World how much support you still have in your CLP

I look forward to your response