From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party last year, it was clear that establishment forces in the party would try to oust him at the earliest opportunity.

While the local elections in May failed to produce the decisive defeat that would’ve given them a pretext for a coup, the result of the Brexit referendum has provided a convenient opening.

The day after the Leave vote, Members of Parliament (MPs) Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey submitted a motion of no-confidence in Corbyn’s leadership to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), a body of 229 Labour MPs.