WORCESTER'S former Labour MP says Jeremy Corbyn must quit if he fails to win the General Election.

Mike Foster has upped the pressure on Labour's leader by saying he should "do the right thing" and resign if the snap June 8 poll ends in defeat.

It comes amid a raft of opinion polls which point towards Prime Minister Theresa May ending up with a potential Tory landslide next month.

Mr Foster is not standing in these elections and remains Worcester's only ever Labour MP, a role he held for 13 years until 2010.

He said: "If Jeremy Corbyn wins this General Election then fair enough, but conversely if he doesn't, what would be the logic in him continuing?

"For him to remain Labour leader after that would be a nonsense argument - it wouldn't be about leading the country, it'd be about something else.

"If the polls are right, then it's inconceivable (that he should stay on). The only logical conclusion would be for him to stand down."

He has also used social network Twitter to make his stance clear, saying Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband both stepped down after losing elections.

Mr Foster added: "I get the odd tweet from people accusing me of being 'disloyal', but I get 10 times as many people say to me 'you are absolutely right."

Mr Foster, who became an MP in the 1997 Tony Blair-inspired landslide, has been consistently critical of Mr Corbyn.

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At the time of his leadership bid he emailed Labour Party members in Worcester appealing them to back 'ABC', which stood for 'Anyone But Corbyn'.

Over the last two weeks Mr Corbyn has been asked repeatedly by journalists if he intends to stay on after June if he loses the election.

After website Buzzfeed reported him saying he would carry on regardless of the result, his election team barred their reporters from having access to him for the rest of the campaign.

Mr Corbyn has since stated that his only focus is on winning.

In Worcester Conservative parliamentary candidate Robin Walker is defending a 5,646 majority, with Labour Councillor Joy Squires having another crack at the seat in a repeat of 2015.

There are seven candidates going for the Worcester seat next month.