Corbyn reshuffles shadow cabinet

Mr Jones said he “personally got on very well” with Mr Corbyn but believed “the people around him are advising him very badly”.

They were furious at the decision to sack shadow ministers Michael Dugher and Pat McFadden, and replace Maria Eagle as Shadow Defence Secretary with Emily Thornberry. 6, 2016 Corbyn moved defense spokeswoman Maria Eagle, who opposed him on nuclear weapons, to another post, and fired two other members of his frontbench team who had criticized him.

When asked about sacked Michael Dugher – who called the reshuffle a Christmas present for the Tories – he admitted only: “We’ve had an exchange of views”.

The Labour leader also admitted he signed off the final details of the reshuffle by text while standing on a train platform.

Barely hours later he was followed by the shadow foreign affairs minister Stephen Doughty, who had earlier expressed his anger over the way Mr McFadden had been treated in a tweet.

And he also sharply criticises the Stop The War Coalition, which Mr Corbyn helped to found as remains closely involved with.

As a Labour/Co-op MP and rail minister, Mr Reynolds was in a position to support the Co-operative Party’s agenda for a “People’s Railway” within the shadow government. “He knew our views on the nuclear deterrent”.

Speaking on the Daily Politics show on Wednesday, Ms Nandy denied she had been offered the defence role.

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.

“We are confident that when the economic, security and other factors are taken into consideration, that a new policy will be decided that responds to the needs of the 21st century”.

Since his election, the party has been split between centrists who broadly identify with the policies of former Labour prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and left-wingers, particularly grassroots activists, who voted in Corbyn as leader.

Diane Abbott on those who have left the front bench: “They’re all special advisers”.

Benn kept his job as Corbyn tried to forge unity with the party’s more moderate members, but three junior ministers in Labour’s “shadow cabinet”, which mirrors the government, resigned over their differences with the leader.

“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.

Internal party critics have suggested that the review is now a stitch-up.

The party faces electoral defeat, nearly certainly, but possibly ruin at the polls if it continues under Mr Corbyn’s leadership.

He said Mr McFadden and his allies, including the three shadow ministers who resigned in protest at his sacking, had distorted what Mr Corbyn told him on the telephone and had toured the airwaves to repeat their “lies”.