WORCESTER'S former Labour MP has today urged Jeremy Corbyn to resign - saying he must accept it is "game over".

Mike Foster, who represented the city for 13 years in the Commons, told the Worcester News Labour's leader should quit now rather than face a "humiliating" vote of no confidence.

It comes as other members of Worcester Labour Party round on the under-fire Opposition leader, with the chairman of the branch's official 'In' campaign over the EU referendum calling Mr Corbyn's performance "appalling".

This afternoon it also emerged that Councillor Joy Squires, Labour's parliamentary candidate last year, has signed a letter alongside 57 other former Commons candidates urging him to quit.

The Labour Party is embroiled in meltdown, with 26 members of his shadow team resigning so far after Mr Corbyn fired Hilary Benn in the early hours of yesterday, sparking a chaotic reshuffle.

Deputy leader Tom Watson has today told Mr Corbyn he has "no authority", with formal no confidence proceedings due to be launched by Labour MPs tonight, leaving the Opposition in an unprecedented state of crisis.

But with Mr Corbyn refusing to walk, members of Worcester Labour Party have joined the chorus of anguish at their predicament, urging him towards the exit door.

Mr Foster, who lost his seat to Tory MP Robin Walker at the 2010 general election, said: "It's now got to the stage where he can't pull back - the resignations have gone too far.

"A vote of no confidence would show us how many Labour MPs have confidence in the leader - but it's much better for Jeremy to accept it's game over.

"Otherwise it will be humiliating for him, nobody wants to see it happen that way especially when he could prevent it, so I hope wise heads prevail and he does the decent thing.

"The referendum result means we will almost inevitably have a General Election by the end of this year, and so we have to ask ourselves do we want Jeremy as leader - the answer is a very clear no."

Mr Foster also said he felt "time and time again" Mr Corbyn had "ignored" the concerns of people in the West Midlands on issues like immigration.

"I know he was told, time and time again, how serious immigration was as an issue in the West Midlands and he ignored it," he said.

"Not only that, he went on national radio and made it worse.

"In a parliamentary democracy like ours you need strong Government and an effective opposition to hold them to account, and frankly right now I think we've got neither."

Mr Foster, Worcester's first ever Labour MP when he was first elected in 1997, was a party whip during the infamous Gordon Brown plot to oust Tony Blair, hatched at a Wolverhampton curry house in 2006.

Richard Boorn, who ran Worcester's Labour 'In' campaign, said: "Cameron's going because he 'lost' the referendum but Corbyn should too, his performance was appalling.

"When you see that his office tried to sabotage the Remain campaign - we all know he's got a history of not liking the EU, why not just say it then instead of trying to put a spanner in the works?"

Some rank-and-file Labour members and councillors have also criticised the Labour leader for trying to cling on, including Elaine Williams, who was elected to the Warndon ward in May for the city council.

She said: "I cannot see how Corbyn can stay as Labour leader when we failed to convince the public to Remain."

Labour activist Ceri Stalker, who stood in Bedwardine, also went onto Twitter to urge party members to sign a poll calling for his resignation.

She said: "We must now say what we have been keeping private, to give Jeremy Corbyn a chance to prove he can 'do it', he hasn't, he needs to go."

Labour Councillor Joy Squires, deputy leader of Worcester City Council, fought the general election last year and said she wanted to see how it unfolds.

She said: "It's clear that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is in a very difficult position - we'll have to see what unfolds over the next few days."

Mr Corbyn, who was elected in September in a landslide victory, launched a fightback this morning by unveiling a new shadow cabinet after the waves of resignations since yesterday.

He has also pledged to stand again as leader if there is indeed a new contest launched.

He has lost 16 of his shadow cabinet and a further ten shadow ministers, filling the roles with a raft of relatively unknown MPs, many of whom are relatively new to the Commons.

The sensational fallout follows claims he deliberately watered down his public opposition to Brexit, including refusing to work with David Cameron for the 'Remain' side and watering down a series of pro-EU speeches before last Thursday's vote.

Last night he issued a statment saying: "I am not going to betray the trust of those who voted for me – or the millions of supporters across the country who need Labour to represent them.

“Those who want to change Labour’s leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate."