UK’s Youngest Jewish Labour MP Joins Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet
After the chaos of the past four days, Jeremy Corbyn’s first Prime Minister’s Questions as leader of the opposition looked set to demonstrate a fractured Labour party in disarray.
At the moment, the Labour Party is a very broad church (eight shadow ministers resigned from Labour’s front bench within minutes of Mr Corbyn’s victory).
“I think we have to push robustly for the limitation of arms supplies [to Israel],” Corbyn said.
Newly-appointed shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy said Mr Corbyn should have sung the anthem to “avoid all the fuss”.
Mr Corbyn has been heavily criticised – including by members of his own front bench – after remaining silent while David Cameron and others sang the anthem during a Battle of Britain commemoration at St Paul’s Cathedral.
A TORY MP has suggested he may resort to sending questions to Jeremy Corbyn after he missed the cut during Prime Minister’s Questions.
“[Mental Health treatment] beds are unobtainable, with the result that people suffering serious mental health crises are either left without adequate care or, alternatively, are admitted to facilities many miles away from their homes, relatives and family support systems”.
DEFEATED Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has offered a heartfelt thank you message to the people of his constituency for their support.
Mr Murray also appealed for Mr Corbyn to be given more time as party leader, as he described the past few days as a “whirlwind”.
Corbyn also says that Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapons programme, should be scrapped.
Jeremy Corbyn tried to take his “new kind of politics” to PMQs today.
There is a general meeting at 7.30pm on Thursday, September 24 which will be addressed by a speaker from UNISON Regional Office on trade unions and the Labour Party working in partnership. But alongside this direct use of social media, the Corbyn team appears to have benefited from the flowering of a multitude of unofficial online memes that spread word of his campaign and ideas far beyond the reach of traditional mainstream media.
He said: “The policy is that we work within the total budget of £120bn”.
Mr Cairns said the return of the bridges into public ownership, due in 2017 or 2018, would create the “opportunity to do more”, adding that the “debate and discussion is ongoing”.