Three Labour MPs quit front bench roles over Jeremy Corbyn ‘revenge reshuffle’

The answer, of course, is both.

Mr Corbyn said there will now be the “closest cooperation” with the offices of his shadow teams.

On Hilary Benn, who was tipped to lose his seat as shadow foreign secretary, but who will stay in post on the understanding he toes the line publicly with the leader on foreign policy, he said: “I’ve had lots of conversations with Hilary Benn and we get on fine”.

Of course, unlike Amla, who announced a shock resignation when the drama was over, it wasn’t Mr Benn who quit at the end of the contest.

Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East Pat McFadden said he had been axed as shadow minister for Europe in Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle after saying the west was not to blame for terrorist attacks.

Another member of the shadow cabinet, culture spokesman Michael Dugher, was also sacked.

Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn was tonight conducting a reshuffle of his junior ministerial ranks, although it is not known how long it will take after the initial shake-up lasted 36 hours. At times, the ferocity of his verbal onslaught was every bit as brutal as Stokes’ batting in Cape Town.

Mr Doughty has stepped down from his position of shadow foreign office minister and will now move to the party’s back-benches in parliament.

Mr Livingstone said he agreed that former Europe spokesman Mr McFadden had been disloyal in a statement on the causes of Islamist terrorism.

“There were issues where there has been undermining of his(Corbyn’s) leadership and not accepting his mandate from the party members that he received in the election”, he told Sky News.

A senior Labour source said Mr Corbyn had reached an “agreement” with Mr Benn that there could be no repeat of the situation over Syria airstrikes, when they set out opposing views from the despatch box in the House of Commons.

In terms of her Culture, Media and Sport brief, Eagle played chess for Lancashire and England as a junior and also managed to play cricket for Lancashire on occasion.

Corbyn sought to keep Eagle’s twin sister, Angela, the shadow business secretary, in the Cabinet, because he has been criticized for giving women lesser jobs than men.

“And if you’re not happy with some of that, or you simply want the freedom to say more, or you disagree with some of the decisions taken, I think the principle thing to do is to leave in a dignified fashion, which I’ve tried to do”.

The reshuffles have sparked criticism by some other Labour members. No one forces them to kill innocent people in Paris and Beirut and unless we are clear about that we will fail even to be able to understand the threat we face let alone confront it and ultimately overcome it.

Mr Benn said he was “r eally sad to lose” Mr Doughty from the front bench, adding he would “miss his wisdom, insight and comradeship”. Kevan Jones’ was more over a policy clash. He told the Standard: “The party needs a strong defence policy and I can provide that best from the backbenches”. Just over a year ago she was sacked by Ed Miliband for her notorious “white van man” tweet during the Rochester and Strood by-election.