Jeremy Corbyn had been urged to “step down” and allow someone else to take on the reins of the Labour Party because of his “lack of leadership.” A furious John Mann claimed he and other colleagues in Labour “don’t even know our own policies, or where we are going with Brexit,” as he called on Mr Corbyn to either shape up or quit. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Mann said: “I have no idea what our policy is on Brexit going into this August, into a potential election.

“I haven’t got a clue what our policy is and it’s not because I’m not listening – it’s because we don’t have a policy.

“That’s a fundamental problem of leadership. Either lead or get somebody else lead.”

Mr Mann also suggested the behaviour Mr Corbyn adopted on key issues within the party, including the anti-Semitism row, had caused voters to turn their back to the party.

He continued: “It’s about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, or lack of leadership. We lost the last general election, we did badly in most areas in the local elections just gone, we did catastrophically in the European elections.

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Where is the leadership? Where is it now? Where is the enthusiasm that needs to be there?

John Mann

“We’re running on 17-18-19 percent in the polls, we’re down in the polls in Wales, we’re down rock bottom in the polls in Scotland. It can’t get much worse and where is the leadership?

“Can’t even sort out a simple issue like anti-Semitism by kicking out the antisemites and moving onto other issues. We’ve had that hanging over us for three years and we can’t get rid of these extremists, spewing their bile and not getting rid of them.

“Where is the leadership? Where is it now? Where is the enthusiasm that needs to be there?”

Following months of uncertainty, Labour confirmed in July the party will back a second referendum on any Brexit deal Boris Johnson negotiates with the European Union and on no deal. 

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In a letter to voters, Mr Corbyn said: “I want to make it clear that Labour would campaign for Remain against either No Deal or a Tory deal that does not protect the economy and jobs.

“Labour has a crucial, historic duty to safeguard jobs, rights and living standards. But no Brexit outcome alone can do that.

“We need a general election. After nine years of austerity, too many people in this country cannot find decent secure well-paid work and have to rely on public services that have been severely cut back.”

But despite Mr Corbyn’s decision to come out in support for a new referendum to avoid a no deal, former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell announced he had relinquished his support for Labour because of its leader’s conduct on Brexit. 

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Mr Campbell in May revealed he had voted for the Lib Dems during the European elections, a move which caused him to be expelled from the party.

Speaking of his decision not to vote for the party again, Mr Campbell said: “One was the failure to lead on Brexit, one was the failure to tackle the hideous anti-semitism and the third was a lack of genuinely modern radical forward-looking policy agenda.

“I think it’s fair to say I’ve been hoping against hope that there would be improvement across all fronts.

“I think on Brexit, they’ve got to a better position but it’s still to my mind not good enough and Jeremy Corbyn has to be dragged kicking and screaming every step of the way and I think on the other two fronts, frankly, they’ve gone backwards.”

He continued: “I no longer feel this is the Labour Party that I’ve been dedicated to all my life.”

“It’s not the party of Clement Attlee, it’s not the party of Tony Blair or Gordon Brown or Harold Wilson or any of the other leaders we’ve had in the past.”

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