Trouble for Jeremy Corbyn? Almost 100 Labour MPs and peers attend the first meeting of a 'party within a party' moderate group set up by his deputy Tom Watson after anti-Semitism row

Almost 100 Labour politicians have stuck two fingers up at party leader Jeremy Corbyn tonight by attending the first meeting of a new moderates group led by his deputy Tom Watson.

Former party leader Neil Kinnock and New Labour era ministers Peter Mandelson, David Blunkett, Peter Hain and Tony Blair's former deputy John Prescott were among those seen at the launch of the Future Britain group.

There were also around a dozen members of Mr Corbyn's current front bench at the meeting in Parliament, which will fuel suspicions that at least some were there to spy on the group.

It was launched by Mr Watson after nine MPs quit the party over issues including Brexit and the anti-Semitism crisis and has been seen by many as a direct challenge to the hard-left take over of the party under Mr Corbyn.


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