Momentum chair Jon Lansman made an unsuccessful bid to abolish the post of Labour deputy leader at this evening’s meeting of the party’s ruling national executive committee, in the most public challenge to Tom Watson’s authority from the left yet.
Sources from the Corbynite campaign group confirmed Lansman, who sits on the NEC as a representative of constituency Labour parties, proposed a motion to scrap Watson’s elected post this evening, accusing him of undermining the leadership with his interventions on Brexit.
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