She added: “I’m not going to be calling a snap election”.
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A Jeremy Corbyn supporter in the crowd at the rally in Ramsgate.
Last week Yougov reported a dramatic 11 point lead for the Conservatives in voting intention, with the Tories beating Labour 40-29.
Speaking before a debate at the weekly meeting of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP) on letting the party’s MPs elect the shadow cabinet, a spokesman for the Labour leader said the party should also be considering letting members, or party conference, elect some shadow cabinet members.
On Friday, Mr Corbyn said: “I want to. focus on turning around the places that have been on the wrong side of the decisions made elsewhere” and “restore pride and prosperity to those places in so-called left-behind Britain”. “That is what a thriving democracy is about”.
“This would offer the Tories and a certain victory in 2020, with Labour becoming an unelectable political party”.
Corbyn pointed out that MPs would have to undergo the so-called “trigger ballot mechanism”, which could allow local members to act against them, although in 20 years it has rarely been used to remove a sitting politician.
The Labour leader, who seems certain to fend off the challenge of Owen Smith, today takes inspiration from the U.S. as he says a new body is required to carry out cutting edge-research to take advantage of the market for renewable energy.
But party sources have hit back at the suggestions.
The city MP, who joined the mass resignation by shadow ministers in Corbyn’s team when he stepped down as parliamentary private secretary to the shadow justice team, was widely quoted as having spoken out in front of more than 200 Labour colleagues.
For the new rule to take effect, it would have to be approved by the national executive committee (NEC), where Corbyn has a slim majority on some issues, and by the party conference. They claimed that of eight people chosen to take part, only two were “consistent” supporters of the leader, and one was on the reserve list.
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Caroline Flint, the former shadow Cabinet minister, said the reform had been nicknamed the “McDonnell amendment” because it could help John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, to succeed Mr Corbyn one day, even though he lacks support from MPs.
