Labour Donor Challenges Labour NEC's Decision Over Jeremy Corbyn

Losing about 73% of Labour MP confidence, senior MP Angela Eagle had filed to exclude Mr Corbyn from the leadership ballot.

However, the 33-member Labour National Executive Commission (NEC) voted by 18 votes to 14 that Mr Corbyn be included in the ballot. The results came after six hours of closed-door discussions.

Former Parliamentary Candidate and Labour Donor Michael Foster has filed a legal application with the High Court to overturn the decision made by the Labour NEC.

According to Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, Mr Foster's actions is "unhelpful".

"This legal challenge is very unhelpful and destabilising to the Labour Party. The NEC made a decision," he said.

"They ruled that Jeremy Corbyn is automatically on the ballot paper. We must respect that decision and give our members a choice of candidates as soon as possible"

Mr Foster said that if the case is heard, a ruling can be made within days.

"It's about the rule of law," he said.

"There were three bits of legal advice from different QCs, all of which were contrarian and none of 

the people in the room were unbiased in the view of that advice.

"The advice that was taken was certainly not given the expert consideration that it would receive from a High Court judge and everyone in the room had a different political agenda."