A Labour MP warned that the new Corbyn cabinet would consist of ‘clones and drones’

Jeremy Corbyn was attacked last night over radical proposals to give Labour Party members a vote on which MPs sit in the shadow cabinet.

Corbyn will use a meeting of the party’s national executive committee on Tuesday to advocate plans for “pushing forward democracy in our party at every level”.

This would involve having a third of the shadow cabinet directly elected by party members, a third chosen by the leader and a third elected by the parliamentary party of MPs and peers, according to a report in The Observer newspaper.

In a statement last night, Corbyn, who is expected to be comfortably re-elected party leader on Saturday with the support of members but not his MPs, appeared to confirm the proposals. “We’ll be discussing