The Labour leadership hopeful said she would hand Mr Corbyn a high-level position if she were to become leader of the party. Ms Long-Bailey has been a close ally of Mr Corbyn and has said her party “must not retreat” from the policies he’s helped to draw up. 

According to The Sun on Sunday, the Labour leadership candidate told supporters she would hand her predecessor a key position if she were to win the contest. 

She said: “I’d like to but I don’t know whether he wants to do it because he said not.

“It’s up to him. I love him so.”

Both Ms Long-Bailey and fellow leadership frontrunner, Sir Keir Starmer were both quizzed on the party’s Brexit position on Sunday. 

The issue was one of the main reasons for the party’s poor performance in the election last month. 

With Labour deciding to stay neutral on the matter, Boris Johnson was able to gain key Tory seats in the north and Midlands. 

Commenting on Brexit, Ms Long-Bailey said on the Andrew Marr show: “We’ve seen the damage that our compromise position did in this election campaign. 

“Our role now is to, over the next four years, set out a positive vision for the country of what GB looks like outside of the EU.

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“We can’t retreat to a position where we’re waiting for four years to tell our voters they got it wrong.”

As it stands, Sir Keir is the favourite to become the new leader and received 374 constituency Labour Party nominations last week. 

Out of 641 from across the UK, Ms Long-Bailey received 164 while Lisa Nandy picked up 72. 

Emily Thornberry was eliminated from the race after receiving just 31. 

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The three remaining candidates will now go through to the online and postal ballot of members and registered supporters which opens on February 24. 

Despite many pointing to Labour’s Brexit policy as a key reason for their downfall, Sir Keir revealed he thought “it was the right policy”. 

He said on Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “I thought it was the right policy.

“I thought we should have gone on by the way and said which side we would be campaigning on if there was a referendum and I warned our party that if we looked indecisive, we wouldn’t look like we were leading on this issue.”

Commenting on the leadership race, Labour peer, Lord Charlie Falconer warned voters from choosing Ms Long-Bailey. 

Talking to Nigel Farage on LBC, Lord Falconer insisted the Shadow Business Secretary would show the public that the Opposition was not ready to govern the country. 

He also hit out at Ms Long-bailey for praising Mr Corbyn’s running of the party despite registering a historic electoral defeat. 

He said: “Firstly, Rebecca Long-Bailey has specifically said she gives ten out of ten to Jeremy Corbyn.

“She is effectively saying I am the continuity candidate for Jeremy Corbyn.

“Rebecca Long-Bailey is a perfectly intelligent and decent person but if she wins the Labour leadership election the Labour Party is effectively ceasing to compete for power in the country.

“People will think that if the Labour Party leadership winner is a continuation of Jeremy Corbyn, who they have conclusively repudiated, then we are not trying to be in government.”

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