Union leader urges Labour MPS to be ‘less feral’ in attacking leader Corbyn

Criticism of Jeremy Corbyn from right-wing Labour MPS should be “less feral, less hysterical and more constructive”, the leader of the Unite union has said.

Len Mccluskey said there was “nothing wrong with criticising the leadership” but urged the critics to be a “little bit more constructive” about supporting the Labour leader.

Mr Mccluskey told ITV’S Pes- ton on Sunday that if there was a rule in the party “against stupidity”, former London mayor Ken Livingstone and “lots of other people should have been excluded”.

He said there was a “small rump” of right-wing Labour MPS who “continually criticise” Mr Corbyn: “Day in, day out, the first thing they thought about was how do we criticise and attack.”

Mr Mccluskey also denied that there was a “glass ceiling” for women in Unite, which has a median gender pay gap of 29.6 per cent.

On anti-semitism, Mr Mccluskey was asked whether Mr Livingstone, who is suspended from the party due to his claim that Hitler supported Zionism in the 1930s, should be kicked out.

He replied: “If there was a rule in the party against stupidity, then he and lots of other people should have been excluded, because it was bizarre, and I said it at the time, what he came out with.”