When she resigned from the shadow cabinet, Ms Champion said Mr Corbyn’s position was “untenable” and suggested Labour was “doomed” if it did not unite.
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“I would like to formally retract my resignation and ask to be reinstated to my role as Shadow Home Office minister for preventing abuse and domestic violence with immediate effect”, she wrote, according to the Guido Fawkes blog.
The BBC’s assistant political editor said Mr Corbyn’s advisers were “overjoyed” and said it raised the prospect of whether the MP was a one-off or whether others who had walked out of the Labour leader’s top team were now having second thoughts.
A Labour spokesman said: “There’s always work to be done”.
“She is very passionate about her brief and we have got a job to do opposing the Government and obviously we are very pleased to be welcoming her back”, they said.
A new survey of Labour party councillors in marginal constituencies has found that while most back leadership challenger Owen Smith, many suspect their local members will not follow suit.
Rotherham MP Ms Champion quit on June 28, saying: “I can only do what I feel is right, even though it’s breaking my heart”.
ABUSIVE Labour supporters will lose their leadership contest vote, the party’s general secretary said yesterday.
He recognised condemnation of such “appalling behaviour” from Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith, among others, but added such comments are “meaningless unless they are backed up by action”. They shouldn’t be shouted down, they shouldn’t be intimidated and they shouldn’t be abused, either in meetings or online.
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Thirty-eight per cent thought the majority of their local members will vote for Mr Corbyn, compared to 28 per cent voting for Mr Smith, and 53 per cent thinking the majority of their local registered supporters are likely to back Corbyn. Jeremy has made it clear on a number of occasions he wants to reach out to the Parliamentary Labour Party.
