Jeremy corbyn sacks europe spokesman pat mcfadden as reshuffle continues

The move strengthens the North East voice on the shadow front bench and sees more women take a high-profile role.

Asked whether the scheme was rejected for being too expensive, the Downing Street source said: “The decisions you make are on what is the most effective way to use the resources you have got”.

“How can you run a party when everyone expects half of the party to resign?”

Two Labour frontbenchers have quit after party leader Jeremy Corbyn sacked two “disloyal” senior figures and promoted a Trident opponent in a so-called “revenge reshuffle”. But they were adamant that Benn had not agreed to any curbs.

McFadden added: “He clearly feels that me saying terrorists are entirely responsible for their action, that no-one forces anyone to kill innocent people in Paris, to blow up the London Underground, to behead innocent aid workers, that when I say they are entirely responsible for that, he clearly interpreted that as an attack on him”.

Mr Watson and other shadow cabinet members last night rushed to Dugher’s defence. “Jeremy will set out his thoughts over the next days and weeks, I imagine”, she said. It’s about bringing people in, building a team, being a good manager and that’s what he’s developing.

McFadden was criticizing the response of the Stop the War Coalition, which Corbyn used to lead.

“Never mind how many Eagles we end up with”, he said in reference to Maria and her twin sister, shadow business secretary Angela Eagle.

He has clashed with centrist Labour legislators over issues including his opposition to nuclear weapons and to British airstrikes on IS targets in Syria. “I want a proper conversation about what defences we need”. Eagle was replaced by Emily Thornberry, a former lawyer, who backs the view that the deterrent should be scrapped.

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

Mr Benn was forced to deny he had been “muzzled” after hanging on to his job despite being widely tipped for the sack following his impassioned speech in support of military intervention in Syria. “She’s been put in there to agree with the leader”. “We shouldn’t be asking if the leader of the opposition is happy to have the Member for Leeds Central, we know he’s not, the question is ‘what on earth is the Member for Leeds Central and others doing in this Labour party government?'”. Even those who are sticking with him now beg to differ.

In an interview with the Yorkshire Post, Mr Corbyn said: “My great failing in life is to listen to everybody at whatever great length they wish to speak to me”.

“They’ve got a heck of a lot to learn”, he said.

“Winning the next election will be extremely hard, but that will depend on whether Jeremy is willing to work with and engage with people in a more positive way than he’s done so far”.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: “This reshuffle shows that a divided Labour Party is a threat to national security”.

Like sacked shadow Culture Minister Michael Dugher, the Scot refused to go quietly.

A senior Labour MP told the Star the losses were minor and the resignations hinted at self-importance. Dugher said he did not expect the predicted big reshuffle to happen. But foreign policy chief Hilary Benn, whose position had initially appeared in doubt, stayed.