Jeremy Corbyn rejects Labour MP’s calls for immigration clampdown

He said the decision by moderates to quit en-masse following the European Union referendum and force a leadership and assume it could win was “one of the biggest misjudgements since Stalin was accept as general secretary of the Soviety Communist Party in 1922”.

The victory strengthens his hold on a party that has expanded dramatically since the 2015 general election and now has more than 500,000 members.

The entrepreneur, who served as a business spokesman for the party in the Lords under Ed Miliband, launched a scathing attack on Mr Corbyn following his re-election as Labour leader.

This would wipe out his small majority on the NEC, making it more hard for him consolidate his power and push through changes to the leadership contest rules to make it easier for Left-wing candidates to be elected in future.

Labour’s membership has soared to around 600,000 since Corbyn became leader last September.

“It does not give them a mandate to put themselves in a locked room and do whatever the hell they want with this country”, she told party activists.

But 30 per cent say Labour has a 50/50 chance, a finding which may be seized on by Mr Corbyn’s supporters as a sign that he could break through with voters. For every Labour member disappointed today: we need you now.

He will say he is determined to lead the party to power, but will warn his critics: “We will only get there if we accept the decision of the members, end the trench warfare and work together to take on the Tories”.

This idea is popular among Labour MPs who see it as a potential olive branch from Mr Corbyn.

Labour strongly promoted immigration during its 13 years in power until 2010.

Mr Murray said that any attempt to water down the current package of changes would be an assault on Scottish Labour’s plans for greater autonomy.

He said it was now the time for the party to get on with “exposing and defeating the Tories and the damage they are doing to our country”.

Sandy Martin, the leader of the Labour group on Suffolk County Council, said he made no pretence that he had voted for Owen Smith – the candidate backed by the majority of Labour MPs. “For more than half a century it’s been one of Labour’s guiding aims to give people on ordinary incomes the opportunity to own a home” he went on.

Ms Davidson said that while “1997 will stick in the mind for an entire generation” for many of those who had voted Labour then “that election night now feels a long, long time ago”.

This appears to have failed to win over Mr Corbyn’s supporters, with opinion polling of Labour’s members and supporters showing the incumbent leader comfortably ahead during the contest.