Nearly half of Labour members believe Jeremy Corbyn has responded either “very well” or “fairly well” to the party’s antisemitism crisis, a new poll has found.

And despite the internal crisis within Labour – caused by rows over anti-Jewish racism and the party’s Brexit position – an incredible 56 per cent of members now believe the Labour leader is “doing well” overall.

Asked whether Mr Corbyn should lead the party into the next General Election, 56 per cent of those surveyed agreed, down from 74 per cent in March last year.

The latest survey of 1,100 Labour members for The Times found that 70 per cent said that antisemitism was a “genuine” problem in the party – and 48 per cent said Mr Corbyn had fared either "fairly badly" or "very badly" to the issue.

Meanwhile, 27 per cent of members agreed that Mr Corbyn should "step down now" - up from 12 per cent in March 2018. 

Some 12 per cent said he should resign "before the next general election", a slight rise on the 10 per cent recorded last time.

On Brexit, the YouGov poll found that just 42 per cent of members believe Mr Corbyn has handled Labour's position in the EU either "very" or "fairly" well, while 56 per cent said Mr Corbyn had dealt with Brexit "very badly" or "fairly badly".

However, more than 80 per cent said they still thought the Labour leader had the "right priorities for the country".

The findings came ahead of a crucial Shadow Cabinet meeting on antisemitism on Monday afternoon, a separate meeting with Labour MPs in the evening, and a meeting of the ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Tuesday.

Deputy leader Tom Watson has tabled proposals for automatic expulsion of anyone found guilty of antisemitism which will be voted on at a meeting of Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee.

But HuffPost reported Mr Corbyn and his allies were tabling their own proposal where the current specialist NEC panels would be given unprecedented power to expel antisemities, rather than referring cases to Labour’s quasi-judicial National Constitutional Committee (NCC).

The NCC can spend months, and in some cases years, determining its decision on expulsion and the new option - understood to have the backing of key Left members of the NEC - is aimed at sending a strong signal in the worst examples of antisemitism.