MPs’ vote on who joined the top team was scrapped by Ed Miliband back in 2011.
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Mr Betts conceded at the PLP meeting that the reform “might put some pressure” on the victor of the leadership campaign but said the proposal was a “pragmatic response to the situation we find ourselves in”, according to a source. It now means 84 per cent of Labour’s constituency parties have backed Mr Corbyn to remain as leader, with just 16 per cent backing Mr Smith.
Until the system ended, Labour MPs would vote for people to fill frontbench positions when the party was in opposition.
If the motion passes, it will then be up to Labour’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), to vote on the measure at their next meeting.
Labour is now in the middle of a leadership contest, with Owen Smith challenging Mr Corbyn’s position.
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”.
They add that when Mr Corbyn was elected as leader in the autumn of 2015 he attempted, at the time, to create a broad-based shadow cabinet with representation from all sides of the party.
UB40’s vocalist, Robin Campbell said: “We support Jeremy Corbyn because he is the only one willing to speak up for working people, who have been badly treated by successive governments, including new labour, in recent decades”.
Mr Corbyn, who opposed Mr Miliband’s decision at the time, chose his own top team after his election as Labour leader past year but more than half of them resigned in protest at his leadership in the wake of June’s European Union referendum.
She claimed she did not see how this “hurdle” would be cleared by elections to appoint shadow cabinet members.
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“Any review also needs to take account of the need to represent regions and nations”.
