Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

‘We are going to have to lock some people in a cupboard’: Labour plotters prepare for coup

Labour MPs are today voting on the motion of no confidence on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. The rebels expect the vote to pass with 2:1 support from the parliamentary party. But what they do not know is whether the party membership has really shifted enough for Corbyn to lose when it moves to a new contest.

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