Labour party edges towards split as up to 100 moderate MPs including Luciana Berger, Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman and Yvette Cooper face being deselected before the next election
9hose seen as most at risk include Luciana Berger pictured Chris Leslie
Labour is edging towards a bitter split as up to a hundred MPs face the threat of a deselection battle.
Plans for a breakaway group have been accelerated by fears of a mass wave of challenges to sitting MPs.
Moderates believe party grandees including Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper and Dame Margaret Beckett will all face attempts to oust them, along with Labour frontbenchers Diane Abbott and Dan Carden.
It is anticipated that around a quarter of the 100 MPs expected to be subject to a contest will lose, removing them as Labour candidates for the next election.
Moderates believe party grandees including Ed Miliband (left), Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper (right) and Dame Margaret Beckett will all face attempts to oust them
Those seen as most at risk include Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker and Angela Smith, who are all thought to be considering quitting the party as part of an imminent split.
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