PETER Kyle’s position as MP is safe according to the Jeremy Corbyn supporters voted on to key local Labour party roles.

Hove Constituency Labour Party (CLP) chairwoman Anne Pissaridou said deselection was not possible adding she and the region’s only Labour MP agreed on many things.

She and Mr Kyle told The Argus of the party’s unity and desire to put behind difficult times following disputed elections last summer.

But one senior party member described Wednesday’s elections as a “grim night” and claimed new committee members were hostile to Mr Kyle and city councillors.

The Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party, once the country’s biggest, was ordered to split into three following accusations of voting irregularities at July’s AGM.

Corbynites were returned to roles at Brighton constituency parties last month but the Hove vote was delayed after Ralli Hall bosses cancelled the meeting over “contentious statements” about Israel made by candidate Rebecca Massey.

On Wednesday Corbyn supporters were voted into all key posts including former city councillor Anne Pissaridou as chairwoman and Mrs Massey as treasurer.

The senior Labour figure said the city was “Momentum Central” with former Green activists joining Labour.

The member claimed officers and delegates walked out in a “puerile” act during a speech by Mr Kyle, who has been a critic of his leader, saying Mr Corbyn lacked core skills.

Ousted party member Mark Sandell, voted in as party chairman in July’s vetoed elections, was secretly recorded suggesting Kyle could be deselected while a petition backing his removal attracted 600 signatures.

The CLP would have to apply to the party’s NEC to launch any deselection move while ward branches choose council candidates.

Mrs Pissaridou said: “We have a team of people all committed in our support for Jeremy Corbyn who want to take forward the message that Jeremy has put out.

“We will work to protect what we have got. We are all united going forward to take the city and to take the country.

“Pete is an intelligent and caring man, he has got his own views.

“Some of them I don’t agree with, like bombing Syria, but I tell him that face-to-face.

“He has done a lot in the community. There are lots of things we agree on.

“There is no such thing as deselection.”

Mr Kyle said: “Talk of deselections are Chinese whispers from dark corners. Often outside the Labour Party, they are not based in reality and not how our party operates in.”