Jeremy Corbyn in leadership crisis after Labour’s disaster at EU elections

JEREMY Corbyn was plunged into a fresh leadership crisis last night after his senior MPs blamed his pro-Brexit stand for Labour’s euro polls disaster.

Labour shed hundreds of thousands of votes, as its Remainers defected to the Lib Dems and Greens, and its Leavers backed the Brexit Party.

Jeremy Corbyn faces a fresh leadership crisis after Labour's polls disaster at the EU elections — Jeremy Corbyn faces a fresh leadership crisis after Labour’s polls disaster at the EU elections

Labour failed to win in either London and came third in Wales, its two strongest national strongholds.

The Lib Dems even pipped the party to second place in humiliated Mr Corbyn’s own constituency of Islington.

Minutes after the last polls closed across Europe at 10pm, Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry issued a thinly veiled onslaught on her leader.

She named his refusal to offer a second referendum to reverse Brexit as the main reason for it, and demanded an immediate change in party policy.
Igniting another bout of bitter Labour infighting, Ms Thornberry said: “We should have said quite simply that any deal that comes out of this government should be put to a confirmatory referendum.
“We will need to look again at our policy and make sure that we are clearer – particularly frankly that we are heading for a general election.”

Ex-Labour PM Tony Blair’s former communications boss Alastair Campbell confirmed he abandoned his party to vote Lib Dem for the first time in his life in Thursday’s poll.
The Sun was also told that Remainer Labour activists were secretly campaigning for rival parties in the final week of the campaign.
In Chesterfield, several quietly defected to hand out Lib Dem leaflets instead.