And the decision to kick the issue into the long grass is likely to make it more hard for Mr Corbyn to persuade critics who quit his frontbench team in June to return.
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However, she later said that “of course” Labour could win a general election under Mr Corbyn. It’s what I’ve wanted the whole of my entire life.
“There will always be those Tories who want to write off the Labour years, and pretend no good came from them”.
Sitting MPs will be automatically shortlisted in the process if a “significant” geographical area of their old constituency is within the new boundary.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said she was “consistent and very clear” that the party could win the next general election under Jeremy Corbyn – despite having previously said the left-winger could not appeal to enough voters to take them back into government.
At the same time a string of high-ranking MPs prepared for a fight, making speeches at meetings across the party’s conference in Liverpool calling for resistance.
He added, “The MPs have a duty to support the party against the Conservatives”.
“I don’t think anyone in the Labour movement should underestimate the importance of us illustrating that we are as patriotic as anyone else”. Now it is far more serious than that.
A ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror newspaper found just 16 per cent of people saying Corbyn is likely to lead Labour to victory in the next election.
The re-elected Labour leader had been urged by MPs to restore shadow cabinet elections as an olive branch after a bitter leadership campaign. It’s also the relationships with the community, the effectiveness of representation and all those issues.
Reaching out to new members he said that they should be on the forefront of campaigning.
“What they are looking for is an awayday to look at all those issues, then consulting the party and then we will probably have a rules conference if we need to change those positions”.
In his conference address, Mr McNicol pointedly stressed the party’s goal was “clause one socialism” – referring to the first clause of the party which committed it to being a force in Parliament, rather than simply a mass membership movement, hailed by Mr Corbyn.
Former shadow cabinet minister Vernon Coaker set out the stark choice facing Labour, warning it could “die” unless it changed.
Asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr whether that was democratic, Corbyn said: “I don’t think it’s democratic and I don’t think it’s sustainable at all”.
Many members of the parliamentary party had opposed his leadership, especially in the wake of the vote for “Brexit” in the European Union referendum in June.
Corbyn spent more than 30 years as a Labour lawmaker, never holding a senior role and best known for his frequent rebellions against the center-left party’s leadership.
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Ms Shah said she had supported Mr Corbyn in the leadership race, but said she had not been heavily involved because of her work in the Samia Shahid murder case.
