JEREMY CORBYN has let the country down and his party now faces a decision on his future, Sussex's only Labour MP said yesterday.

Speaking just hours after the result was declared, Hove's Peter Kyle slammed his leader's efforts during the campaign and hinted that he should step down.

He said: "The two leaders who led this campaign were rejected by the country.

"One has already resigned and it’s not good enough for the other to accept no responsibility.

"It’s time for him to do some hard thinking and for the Labour Party to think about nothing other than what’s in the best interests of the country.

"Whether Jeremy can cope with the demands of the extraordinarily demanding set of challenges the country faces, I’m not convinced."

His comments came shortly after two Labour MPs submitted a motion of no confidence in the Labour leader.

Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey confirmed the move in a letter to the chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP).

The motion has no formal constitutional force but calls for a discussion at their next PLP meeting on Monday.

Shortly after Corbyn took up the role last year, Mr Kyle MP said that while he had a "strong mandate" he had a “finite space” in which to make his case.

Speaking yesterday, he added: "He has run out of space. The time for him to set out his stall has now come to an end and the party now has to make a decision.

"The PLP has to make a decision about whether his leadership in Parliament is capable of delivering the quality of leadership the country desperately needs from his opposition.

"I put my heart and soul into this campaign. I gave it everything I had. I travelled the entire region, from Dover to the Isle of Wight.

"But throughout the campaign I felt that some passion was lacking at the top of the party. I met hundreds of activists around the region and time and time again I was asked what Jeremy’s position was. I never felt it should have been my job to tell them."

He said the party now faced a huge challenge in regaining the support of the electorate.

He added: "Labour isn’t addressing the problems people face and the party has detached itself from the realities of their lives. They’re not just dismissive, they’re viscerally angry.

"We have a huge mountain to climb to regain the trust of voters and after this campaign I’m not convinced the current leadership has the skills, the intuition and the capacity to deliver policy making for the very modern challenges that Britain faces."