Some polls have predicted that Mr Corbyn is heading for a larger margin of victory in the leadership contest than his original triumph a year ago, when he secured almost 60 per cent of first-choice votes.
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Elections for the party’s front bench team were abolished in 2011.
But he said it would also put pressure on former shadow ministers to put their differences aside and return to the top team.
In the Survation poll of around 1,000 people, Mrs May’s plus-34 rating made her comfortably the most popular leader, while Mr Corbyn’s negative rating of minus-31 made him the least favoured of all the politicians listed.
The vote is not binding, and must be agreed by both the party’s ruling National Executive Committee and the Labour Party Conference, to take place later this month in Liverpool.
A spokesperson for the Jeremy for Labour campaign said the party leader is not calling for a ban on after-work drinks, ITV reported.
“[It] benefits men who don’t feel the need to be at home looking after their children and it discriminates against women who will want to, obviously, look after the children that they have got”, Corbyn said.
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”.
So has Owen Smith, who said today they were “an interesting idea” and “something I will certainly look very carefully at” if he was elected leader.
“And I just don’t see how with shadow cabinet elections. how you get over that hurdle”.
But crucially, Mr Corbyn received far higher support than his rival among Labour supporters, receiving 41.4% favourable ratings compared with Mr Smith’s 23.7%.
By contrast, 42 per cent blame opposing MPs, and 49 per cent – nearly exactly half of all Corbyn supporters – say that the media is to blame.
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“If the motion to the PLP on Monday is passed, it will go to the NEC, and depending on what’s decided there to conference, and needs to be part of the wider debate about party democratisation and reform”.
