USDAW members rejected a plea today for the union to demand that Jeremy Corbyn be reinstated as a Labour MP. 

Delegate Michael Cashin told the retail union’s annual conference that Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s withdrawal of the whip from his predecessor was a “shameful attack on a man who stands on the side of the union movement.”

Sir Keir’s widely criticised action — backed by Usdaw, GMB and the Musicians Union in a vote of the party’s national executive committee last month — followed Mr Corbyn’s claim that the scale of anti-semitism in Labour had been overstated for political reasons.