Prominent Labour MPs are set to reject a return to the frontbench if Jeremy Corbyn wins Saturday’s leadership battle and fails to accept elections to the shadow cabinet. “The party will have to be consulted before any decisions over shadow cabinet elections are made,” a source said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Benn was sacked by Jeremy Corbyn from the shadow cabinet in June. “I will definitely consider joining the shadow cabinet whoever the leader is because we have to unite behind whoever wins. Separately, the former foreign secretary David Miliband, who lost the 2010 Labour leadership election to his brother Ed, has said Corbyn and his supporters have driven Labour into an electoral “dead end”.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2016 20:59 UTC