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Jess Philips MP compares Jeremy Corbyn to the Black Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail
Jeremy Corbyn has been compared to the Black Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail by a senior Labour MP.
Jess Phillips, the chair of the Women's Parliamentary Labour party, said her leader was continuing to fight for the leadership despite sustaining increasingly severe wounds.
The Birmingham Yardley MP said it would be "the ultimate selfish act" for Mr Corbyn to continue to lead the party.
Ms Phillips said there was "nothing socialist about knowing that you were going to make the people you cared about the poorer".
Speaking at the Institute for Government thinktank, she said: "I mean, the polling rate is terrible, it would be crass to say anything else. It would be crass of me to say 'he could rally!'.
"It's like - what's it called? - Monty Python where he's like 'it's only a flesh wound!', it is getting a bit like that."
She said she thought Mr Corbyn would "come to the conclusion himself" that he should not stay in position, but refused to to say when she believed he should leave.
"I'm not going to put a time on it because when is the right time - there isn't a right time, there isn't a wrong time", she said.
"Also the clouds aren't going to part and something amazing is going to happen that is going to save the left of politics, that isn't how it works and these things are calculated by people with endless different agendas, so I don't know when the time will be.
"At the moment Len (McCluskey's) said 15 months, so I mean he's our boss apparently, so 15 months, is it 12 months? I think it's arbitrary to put a time on it and I think that Jeremy will come to the conclusions by himself.
"One can only hope, because it would be the ultimately selfish thing to do.
"There would be nothing socialist about knowing that you were going to make the people you cared about the poorer. That would be the ultimate selfish act, to put yourself in front of those people whose voice you amplify would be the ultimate selfish act and he's a socialist, so he won't do that."
It comes after Mr Corbyn lost his temper during a broadcast interview as he blamed the media for his party’s dire poll ratings.
The Labour leader said that the media was “failing” in its duty to cover his parties policies and said it is “utterly obsessed” with his leadership.
Asked by ITV whether he has considered standing aside, Mr Corbyn said: “You’re obsessed with this question, utterly obsessed”.