Labour split: Jeremy Corbyn faces major crisis as deputy leader warns more MPs are ready to quit party.

Deputy leader Tom Watson said others are considering leaving a party which he admitted he sometimes 'no longer recognises'

Jeremy Corbyn faces a historic Labour rupture after being warned that more MPs are ready to follow the seven who dramatically quit his party on Monday.

The leader publicly appealed for unity while his supporters launched savage attacks on the MPs, branding them “cowards”, “traitors” and “splitters” and demanding they give up their seats.

But as the crisis deepened, deputy leader Tom Watson said other MPs are also considering leaving Labour, a party he admitted he sometimes no longer recognises, amid visceral anger over antisemitism, Brexit and Mr Corbyn’s leadership.

Full story at Independent.

By Joe Watts and Lizzy Buchan