Labour’s Stephen Doughty resigns as shadow minister on live TV

Shadow Culture Secretary Michael Dugher, who had publicly spoken out against the regime on a number of occasions, was sacked, while Blairite Pat McFadden also lost his position as Shadow Europe Minister, leading to the resignation of Shadow Rail Minister Jonathan Reynolds.

Corbyn’s shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle was moved to a new job as shadow culture secretary, which commentators have described as a demotion.

He welcomed Scottish Labour’s conference vote in favour of scrapping the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

“Fabian Hamilton, another Leeds MP, has now joined his team and there will be the closest cooperation between my office and the offices of all our shadow teams”.

Speaking to the BBC’s Daily Politics programme, Livingstone said that as the man in charge of Labour’s defence review, he was going to look at whether Britain should withdraw from a military alliance that has pretty much defined Britain’s military presence in the world for the past 60 years.

He said there had been “nothing straightforward or honest” in the conduct of the reshuffle and claimed Labour was being run in a “very top-down” manner.

Mr Jones is MP for the North Durham constituency, which he has represented since 2005. More specifically, he is unifying the party’s foreign policy and solidifying what many regard as an anti-West, anticapitalist stance.

Since then, Labour has been writhing in an effort to rediscover its identity and goal, as its members have split into two camps – those who fear electoral obliteration in the hands of such a left-leaning leader, and those who relish what they see as a return to the party’s roots.

It comes after the shadow foreign secretary’s barnstorming speech supporting Syria airstrikes, which was seen as hugely damaging to Mr Corbyn’s leadership.

Mr Doughty said he intends to keep focusing on issues that matter to Penarth and assisting constituents and local businesses. He said: “They come from a narrow right-wing clique within the Labour Party, based around the organisation Progress”. He tells Newsweek: “This reshuffle is about one thing: changing Labour policy in order to strip away Britain’s nuclear defence and removing or intimidating those who would stand in the way of this”. “I was never offered it, I never had a conversation about it and my understanding is that nobody in the leader’s office had a conversation about it”.

Europe shadow secretary Pat McFadden said he had been sacked in part because of comments he made in parliament seemingly at odds with statements Corbyn had made on the causes of terrorism.

It has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over allegations – which it denies – that it destroyed a key document at the centre of an inquiry, which eventually found claims of murder and torture by British soldiers were “completely baseless”. I have no idea what has happened or what these allegations are.

“I’m afraid they haven’t respected that leadership election result”.

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