British referendum on the membership of the European Union has created a leadership crisis in Britain after the people voted in favor of leaving the bloc. Conservative party leadership crisis was triggered after Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation. UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage announced his step down by saying that he has achieved his target and now wants to devote his time to his family. The leader election in these two parties will proceed as per the party regulations. However, the biggest crisis has been triggered in Labour Party, where Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to step down despite losing a no-confidence vote among the members of the parliament (MPs).

Mr. Corbyn has been arguing that he has been selected by grass-root members to lead the party not the politicians in 2015 and to resign leadership would be equivalent of betraying them. And he is right. In 2015 party election where a candidate will have to secure the backing of at least 35 MPs, Mr. Corbyn secured the least among the selected, just 36, much lower than Andy Burnham’s 68. However in the final election where party members’ nationwide vote, Mr. Corbyn secured 59.5 percent of all votes, way higher than 19 percent secured by Burnham.

There is no reason whatsoever for Mr. Corbyn to resign, at least not without a fresh leadership election. His main challenger this time around, Angela Eagle didn’t even secure required number of MPs.