Heavy defeat could allow Labour’s hardliners to elect another Corbyn

Critics of leader could be swept away, leaving the left proportionately strongerHeavy general election losses for Labour will make it easier for leftwing MPs to install a Jeremy Corbyn mark II as the next party leader, according to senior officials who have analysed the possible make-up of the parliamentary party after 8 June.Some moderate MPs and those on the right of the party fear the total number of Labour members in the Commons could fall from 229 to about 160, leaving Theresa May with a ma