Labour crisis: Yvette Cooper fails to rule out leadership bid as she urges Jeremy Corbyn to quit

Labour's Yvette Cooper has failed to rule out another leadership bid, as the former minister urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand down from the top job amid an attempted coup. "I'm not ruling anything out, but I'm not standing here launching any campaign," Cooper told journalists when she was grilled on her own political ambitions.

Cooper, speaking at the Centre for European Reform, also called for the creation of a National Commission on Immigration, which would attempt to build a consensus on the issue. The policy area was a top issue in the referendum campaign, with Vote Leave backing an Australian-style points system, and Cameron had promised to reduce net migration levels to "tens of thousands" – three times less the most recent current official figure of 333,000.