It comes after Mr Smith said Labour was “sleepwalking towards an electoral disaster” which could tear it apart if Mr Corbyn remains leader.
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Corbyn has been trying to defer any decision on the system of how to choose the shadow cabinet until after the Labour party conference.
“I am neither for or against it, I am pleased that we are having a debate about it”.
He also said the leadership contest had been “bitter and bruising” for the participants and the party.
Mr Corbyn’s optimistic outlook is unlikely to convince critics such as former party leader Lord Kinnock, who has said he fears he will never live to see another Labour government if Mr Corbyn remains leader.
Speaking this week, Mr Antoniw said: “I do not subscribe to the view that the only way Labour can win a United Kingdom general election is to change its leader”.
Speaking on the Peston on Sunday programme, Mr Balls added: “It reminds me of past Labour politicians saying the electorate are not getting it but finally they’ll wake up that we’re right”.
“The people who have teed him up for this have disappeared into the sunset and left him hanging there”.
Momentum was set up as a successor to Mr Corbyn’s successful 2015 Labour leadership campaign.
Although Corbyn is not expected to put any specific proposals to the NEC today, a source close to the leader told IBTimes UK he would like to see shadow cabinet elections as part of a “wider review of party democracy”.
Mr Corbyn favours allowing party members, with whom he has far greater support, to have a voice on the selection of his frontbench.
“I think there has to be a widening of the franchise”, Mr Corbyn told Radio 4’s Today programme.
Jeremy Corbyn has said he is ready to “reach out” to Labour MPs critical of his leadership if he is returned as party leader on Saturday.
But as well as votes from MPs, the top team may have to garner the support of members and the leader in a potential three-way split of the electorate in plans to be discussed at a meeting of the party’s ruling committee on Tuesday.
He has called for the immediate suspension of Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol pending investigation into his conduct.
These “tutorials” from former senior ministers and shadow ministers would aim to stop them being accused of being incompetent, and improve relations within the parliamentary Labour party and make them more effective in the House of Commons.
“I hope they will understand that we’ve been elected as Labour MPs – I’m one myself, of course”. “It doesn’t mean everybody agrees on everything all the time – that I understand – but the general direction of opposition to austerity, opposing the Tories on austerity, those are the kinds of things that actually unite the party these days”.
But Mr Corbyn said he had always rebelled on political rather than personal grounds.
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