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		</div><p>Labour MPs have backed a motion of no confidence in party leader Jeremy Corbyn by 172 to 40.</p>
<p>The vote is non-binding.</p>
<p>Earlier, one of the party leader&#8217;s closest allies warned vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn by Labour MPs would have &#8220;no meaning&#8221;.</p>
<p>Diane Abbott, the newly appointed shadow health secretary, said MPs would have to mount a full leadership challenge if they want to get rid of Mr Corbyn.</p>
<p>And she said the outcome of any contest would still be decided by the grassroots activists who swept Mr Corbyn to the leadership in last year&#8217;s election.</p>
<p>Her warning came before MPs voted on a no confidence motion tabled by veteran backbencher Dame Margaret Hodge in a secret ballot.</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn&#8217;s leadership has been rocked by the mass resignations of dozens of frontbench shadow ministers including more than half the shadow cabinet.</p>
<p>Rebels are hoping that a vote of no confidence by the Parliamentary Labour Party would force him to quit.</p>
<p>However, Ms Abbott said the vote had no status under the party rule book.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has no meaning,&#8221; she told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme. MPs don&#8217;t choose the leader of the Labour Party, the party does.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it is really sad that colleagues have chosen to stage this three-ring circus because they don&#8217;t want to have a leadership election because they are not certain of winning a leadership election.</p>
<p>&#8220;The way to resolve this is to have a leadership election.&#8221;</p>
<p>Furious Labour MPs told the leader to his face that he must quit for the good of the party at a heated meeting in parliament on Monday night.</p>
<p>But a defiant Mr Corbyn is refusing to bow to &#8220;a corridor coup&#8221; despite losing around 40 members of his frontbench team in just two days.</p>
<p>Significant numbers of supporters turned out to show solidarity for the embattled leader at a rally in Parliament Square.</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn appealed for &#8220;unity&#8221; and told the crowd: &#8220;Don&#8217;t let the people who wish us ill divide us.&#8221;</p>
<p>But at a brutal meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party the Opposition leader was told he was not up to the job and was urged to &#8220;do the decent thing&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Labour-supporting Daily Mirror joined the calls for him to quit for the sake of his party and country.</p>
<p>Shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter became the latest to quit &#8211; after declining the offer of a role in the shadow cabinet.</p>
<p>&#8220;With much regret I have resigned from the Labour frontbench after six years as a shadow minister,&#8221; he said.</p>
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