Timeline of departures How the list of resignations grew

7.45am

Diana Johnson, shadow foreign office minister, is the first resignation of the day. Within four minutes Anna Turley and Toby Perkins have also quit

8.30am

Jeremy Corbyn announces his new shadow cabinet, including Diane Abbott as shadow health secretary, but he will soon find himself having to shuffle the pack again

9am

Mr Corbyn meets his deputy, Tom Watson, who warns him he faces a “bruising” leadership contest if he decides to stay on

11am

Roberta Blackman-Woods resigns as housing minister

11.15am

After a disastrous meeting with Mr Corbyn, Lisa Nandy and Owen Smith, who had been inclined to support the leader, decide to quit, the first full shadow cabinet ministers to resign since Sunday

1pm

Appearing on Radio 4’s The

World at One, Angela Eagle, who has resigned as shadow first secretary of state, is close to tears as she says: “It’s just not working”

3.26pm

Keir Starmer, who had not been party to Hilary Benn’s plans for a coup, decides he must resign as shadow home office minister because Mr Corbyn’s position is now “untenable”

3.45pm

During the EU referendum debate in the Commons, Mr Corbyn is heckled with shouts of “resign!” by his own MPs

5.15pm

Jack Dromey, ex-trade unionist and husband of Harriet Harman, resigns as shadow policing minister, telling Mr Corbyn: “We may be on the brink of a catastrophic defeat from which Labour may never recover”

6pm

A hostile meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party sees MPs take turns to tell Mr Corbyn he will destroy Labour if he does not resign. The meeting decides to hold a “no confidence” vote today

7.30pm

Mr Corbyn addresses a rally of the hard-Left group Momentum outside Parliament, railing against the “super rich”

8.20pm

Nic Dakin resigns as shadow schools minister, the 44th resignation since Sunday