Jeremy Corbyn to continue reshuffle as recriminations rock Labour

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who is jointly-chairing the party’s review of defence policy, said Labour “will look at” whether the United Kingdom should maintain its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership.

“On a number of occasions Pat has displayed an element of what you could describe as criticism Jeremy thought was unfair”.

Mr McFadden had criticised the views of the Stop The War Coaltion – with which Mr Corbyn is closely associated – in the wake of the Paris atrocities, a move that the leader is said to have taken as a personal attack.

Mr Corbyn also faced controversy over the appointment of Emily Thornberry as his new shadow Defence Secretary after it emerged she accepted donations from a law firm facing disciplinary action over its role in an inquiry into allegations of murder and torture by British soldiers. “We weren’t in the Labour cabinet because we disagreed with certain views so we spoke from the backbenches”.

Kevan Jones, Jonathan Reynolds and Stephen Doughty all walked out citing differences with the Labour leader on key policy issues and complaining of “lies” and smears against sacked colleagues.

When asked about his exchanges with Michael Dugher, whom he sacked as Shadow Culture Secretary, he said: “We’ve had an exchange of views”.

He said: “This reshuffle shows that a divided Labour Party is a threat to national security”.

She replaced Maria Eagle, who was shifted to the culture brief vacated by the reshuffle’s most high-profile casualty Michael Dugher.

“I understand they are now before a solicitors’ tribunal…”

But veteran left-winger Paul Flynn said: ” Stability reshuffle drops Commons under-performers Dugher and McFadden, keeps talented Benn, and inevitably loses soaring Eagle.

LISA Nandy said she “kept her head down” during this week’s Labour reshuffle and will be keeping her shadow energy secretary job.

“Having seen three months of these people in office, I am losing hope that they will actually properly orientate themselves to the job of being a credible force that can command the centre and a broad coalition within the country”.

“I agree entirely with the words Pat McFadden used in denouncing terrorism and the false narrative that the West is to blame, and so I believe the only honourable thing for me to do, when a fellow team member has been singled out for punishment for speaking with honesty and principle on this critical issue, is to leave the front bench”.

He said: “This reshuffle will be over and we will be left with a collection of politicians – have no doubt about this – who’ve signed up to unilateral nuclear disarmament, who have signed up to racking up taxes, debt and spending and one of the [most] left-wing programmes in recent memory”.

“I’ve now got more staff in place to be able to help that liaison process”.

Mr Corbyn’s closest allies argued about whether he was strong enough to remove shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn for defying him over Syria.

Some Labour MPs are particularly unhappy that Corbyn’s cabinet is losing Northern and working class MPs and gaining London MPs whom they consider to be from a liberal elite.