PM Joins Calls For Jeremy Corbyn To Resign

David Cameron has called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to stand down in the national interest saying: "For heaven's sake man, go."

Pressure on Mr Corbyn continues to grow after former leader Ed Miliband said his position was "untenable" and two more members of the shadow cabinet quit.

During Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron waded into Labour's misery, criticising Mr Corbyn's role in the EU referendum campaign.

He said: "It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go."

Mr Miliband said: "I am not a plotter, I am somebody who cares deeply about my country, deeply about my party, deeply about the causes that Jeremy and I care about.

"I think the best thing on all of those criteria is that he stands down, painful though that might be for him and many of his supporters."

The latest MPs to desert the Labour front bench are shadow education secretary Pat Glass and Emma Lewell-Buck.

Ms Glass, who was only appointed on Monday, tweeted: "It is with a heavy heart that I have today resigned. My dream job but the situation is untenable."

She was joined by Ms Lewell-Buck who said she was "heartbroken at the state of the party" and could no longer continue as shadow local government minister.

The resignations come after Labour MPs voted by more than four to one in a confidence vote for Mr Corbyn to stand down.

Despite the ballot Mr Corbyn is refusing to give up his job, insisting he will not "betray" the 60% of members and supporters who backed him to succeed Ed Miliband.

Angela Eagle - the most senior member of the shadow cabinet to join the mass mutiny - is widely tipped to be chosen to take him on in a leadership contest.

Other senior figures urging Mr Corbyn to stand aside include former cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell. She told him it was "absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy".

Former deputy leader Harriet Harman, said Mr Corbyn had "no right or mandate" to stay in office.

In a strongly-worded appeal to him to go, she said: "Jeremy earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office.

"Leading the party is a privilege not a right. You earn the opportunity to lead by being elected, to lead the whole party, our voters, members, councillors and MPs.

"If Jeremy goes now, he will earn the respect and admiration of the party. If he stays, he will be responsible for damage to the party on the gravest scale."

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell conceded there might have to be a leadership contest and urged MPs to "play by the rules" and "respect the decisions of our members".

Mr Corbyn was due to address a rally organised by the Momentum movement on Wednesday evening but the group said it was postponing it "due to overwhelming demand".

He was to be joined by Public and Commercial Services union chief Mark Serwotka and Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack, speaking in support of him.