• Maneuver: The attempt to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn's 'number two' unleashes war between Labor

The civil war on behalf of Brexit threatens to explode with all its virulence at the annual Brighton conference and put its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, on the ropes, who has faced the resignation of his electoral advisor Andy Fisher , hours after the failed attempt to overthrow his 'number two', Tom Watson

Corbyn stepped up to the growing rumors about his own resignation in statements to the BBC, claiming that he is prepared to lead his party in early elections and to fulfill until the end a hypothetical mandate as prime minister , despite having already passed the 70 years old ribbon.

The Labor leader once again raised concerns among its bases, recognizing that the United Kingdom could be better outside the EU and reiterating its willingness to negotiate an agreement with Brussels and then submit it to a referendum. His intention would be to be "neutral" in that popular consultation, although he acknowledged that a special conference of the party will be needed before making a decision.

The recalcitrant ambiguity of Corbyn to Brexit has provoked the fulminating reaction of his closest collaborators, such as Foreign spokeswoman Emily Thornberry and Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer, both supporters of a party turn towards permanence. With a necklace of European stars, Thornberry was in charge of the demonstration of The People's Vote in Brighton. Beside him, Starmer also took off his tie and clung to the banner claiming a second EU referendum.

Surveys meanwhile reflect a fall of the Labor Party to 15 points below the Conservative Party of Boris Johnson (22% to 37%). Opinium's latest poll for 'The Observer' also detects confusion among Labor voters: only 31% say their party's stance against Brexit is "clear," compared to 58% who think the same of conservatives.

Only 33% of the supporters of the permanence recognize that they will vote for the Labor Party in an election, the same proportion that is inclined by the Liberal Democratic Party, which continues to gain ground in the polls (17%) with its direct promise to revoke Article 50 and cancel the exit of the EU. The Nigel Farage Brexit Party is fourth in the same poll, with 12% of the preferences.

"Jeremy Corbyn is unable to win an election and has surrounded himself with a team without professionalism, without competition and without human decency," says Andy Fisher , architect of the 2017 election manifesto, in an internal document and when justifying his resignation. According to 'The Sunday Times', Fisher also accuses the Corbyn team of hiding behind "a storm of lies and excuses", and of waging the "class war" within the party.

Fisher's resignation came hours after the attempt to overthrow Corbyn's 'number two', Tom Watson, and to abolish the position of "deputy leader" of the party. Watson represents the moderate faction of the party and has been especially critical of Corbyn for his indefinition against Brexit and for his inability to stand up to the controversy of anti-Semitism that has seriously pierced the image of the party. The attempt to overthrow Watson, stopped at the last moment by Corbyn himself, was sponsored by Jon Lansman, founder of the radical Momentum current, considered as the "praetorian guard" of Corbyn and occasionally criticized for his "Stalinist methods."

The maneuver to get rid of Watson has been interpreted by analysts as a first movement of pieces before the possible succession of Corbyn as a Labor leader , given his advanced age and the extraordinary pressure to which he was subjected to the war between the factions of the party. Corbyn was elected in 2015 with broad support from the party bases and exceeded a motion of internal censorship promoted by dozens of Labor deputies within a year.

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