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ANN COFFEY

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THE 72-year-old MP for Stockport in Greater Manchester urged Corbyn to accept a share of the blame for the Leave vote and to resign. She first joined the Commons at the 1992 general election. She has served as a parliament­ary aide to former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and former chancellor Alistair Darling.

ANGELA SMITH

THE MP for Penistone and Stocksbrid­ge in South Yorkshire, aged 57, has served on committees covering transport and the environmen­t and held frontbench roles including shadow deputy commons leader. In a recent Commons rumpus Mr Corbyn repeatedly ignored her requests to intervene during one of his statements.

CHRIS LESLIE

THE 46-year-old former shadow chancellor was an MP from 1997 to 2005, returning to the Commons to represent Nottingham East in 2010. Replaced on the frontbench by hard-Left John McDonnell after Mr Corbyn became leader, he is a critic of Labour’s Europe policy and supporter of a second EU referendum.

CHUKA UMUNNA

ONE of the leading voices in the People’s Vote campaign, the 40-year-old MP for Streatham in south London since 2010 was shadow business secretary under former leader Ed Miliband. In 2015 he quit Labour’s frontbench the day after Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader, citing difference­s over the UK’s relationsh­ip with the EU.

MIKE GAPES

MP for Ilford South in east London, the 66-year-old has been a member of the Labour Party for 50 years. He was appointed the first national student organiser of the Party in 1977 and been chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. He has been a critic of Labour’s foreign policy under Mr Corbyn.

LUCIANA BERGER

THE 37-year-old MP for Liverpool Wavertree was an outspoken critic of Jeremy Corbyn over his stance on Brexit and failure to tackle anti-Semitism within Labour. She has suffered years of anti-Semitic abuse from hard-Left fanatics. At last year’s Labour Party conference she was given a police escort following death threats.

GAVIN SHUKER

MP for Luton South since 2010, the 37-year-old has been shadow minister for internatio­nal developmen­t (2013-15) and also covered the environmen­t and rural affairs portfolio (2011-13) on the opposition front bench. In December 2018 he was one of a number of MPs to call for a second Brexit referendum.

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