On Monday, Barry Sheerman called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs on whether Prime Minister Gordon Brown should continue.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, Sheerman said he was woken at 1am today, by the leader of his council notifying him that Number 10 and cabinet minister Yvette Cooper had been ringing around the major members of Sheerman's local Labour Party branch asking them to meet him to discuss his remarks.
He said: "If you are going to do something about the leadership of our party it would come from the bottom up, because there are not enough brave hearted people in the cabinet."
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