Peace offerings being discussed include allowing Labour MPs to elect
several members of the shadow cabinet, and appointing staffers to the leader's office who are respected by rebel MPs in an effort to improve relations.
Not exact matches
Labour has descended into crisis as
several high - profile
members of the
shadow cabinet have quit in the past few hours.
The survey, carried out between Monday and Thursday as Mr Corbyn came under fire from MPs and suffered
several resignations from his
shadow cabinet, found 50 %
of Labour
members support him as leader but 47 % do not.
Several members of the Tory
shadow Cabinet also admitted to drug taking after Ann Widdecombe called for # 100 fines for possession
of cannabis in 2000.
The result
of the EU referendum caused discontent among some Labour MPs, and
several shadow cabinet members asked for Jeremy Corbyn's resignation over what they saw as his feeble leadership.
Unsourced briefings to
several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that
members of the
shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the
shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the
shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question
of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.