Natural Labour voters are “very upset” at the divisions in the party, Mr Betts warned as he insisted “we can’t carry on as we are”.
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“All of us – Jeremy, myself, everybody in the Labour Party – has got a pressing duty to think hard about what we are doing”.
But he said it would also put pressure on former shadow ministers to put their differences aside and return to the top team.
In a survey of more than 700 supporters of the Labour leader, 55 per cent said that it was either “definitely” or “probably” true that intelligence agencies are working to undermine Corbyn, who is likely to triumph in the party’s ongoing leadership contest.
MPs will vote on the suggestion tomorrow, with the result expected shortly after 5pm.
Mr Smith warned that the gains made by successive L abour governments over the past 100 years – and not just the Blair and Brown administrations – were “all in jeopardy right now”.
Labour’s parliamentary party has agreed to hold a vote on allowing its MPs to elect the shadow cabinet after it was told “we can’t carry on as we are”.
Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, has previously called on the victor of Labour’s bitter leadership contest to re-establish the elections.
Mr Corbyn said he believed there should be greater protection for women at work, including those who are pregnant or already have children, to end maternity discrimination.
Jeremy Corbyn hit out when shadow cabinet elections were scrapped in 2011.
“I’ve looked at the arithmetic and I can’t see that this works”, he said. “It increases the power of patronage, it reduces the accountability of the leader to Labour MPs”.
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In the case of Ellesmere Port MP Mr Madders the scenario is particularly embarrassing as he is in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet with a health portfolio and his own Ellesmere Port & Neston Constituency Labour Party has nominated Corbyn. “Any review also needs to take account of the need to represent regions and nations”.
