Senior Labour figures are reportedly planning to flood the party with 100,000 new members in an effort to seize back control from Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing stranglehold.
Mr Corbyn announced he would step down after a new leader is chosen “early next year” following the party’s worst general election result since 1935.
Alastair Campbell and Jess Phillips are said to be spearheading a new membership drive in a bid to “rebuild” the party.
Mr Campbell is the former communications chief to Tony Blair and was expelled from Labour after admitting he voted for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections.
According to the Sunday Times, he said members who had left under Corbyn “might be helpful both in the analysis and the aftermath”.
Ex-shadow Brexit minister Jenny Chapman, another former Labour MP who lost her seat in Darlington, also attacked the party leadership.
She said: "You can't run a political party that wants to be a party of government but only really appeals to about a third of the electorate and those people that live in cities who are fairly well-off people.”
Senior Labour figures are plotting to end Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing stranglehold on the party by flooding it with 100,000 new members to elect a moderate new leader.
As the battle for the control of Labour’s future begins, moderates joined a campaign to encourage former members to “rejoin and rebuild” the party.
Former Labour MP for Bishop Auckland Helen Goodman, who lost a seat she has held since 2005, laid the blame for Labour’s loss firmly at Corbyn’s door.
“The biggest factor was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as leader. The fact of the matter is that Jeremy Corbyn failed as a communicator, whatever his good personal qualities, and he undoubtedly has good personal qualities, he failed as a communicator,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
