Revolting: Jeremy Corbyn dumps ‘talent’ Michael Dugher in cabinet reshuffle

Jeremy Corbyn has been publicly attacked by fellow Labour MPs after a shadow cabinet reshuffle which took almost 36 hours.

Labour MP Stephen Doughty has quit as a shadow minister – on live TV.

There is a central conflict at the heart of the Labour Party – and that is born out of the fact that Mr Corbyn was elected as leader by grass roots party members on a policy agenda which is at odds with the majority of his MPs.

Ms Hollern fills the vacancy left in the defence team by Wednesday’s resignation of Kevan Jones, while Ms Rayner joins the work and pensions team following Emily Thornberry’s promotion from employment spokeswoman to shadow defence secretary.

Eagle, who has in the past said she supports the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent, has been replaced as defence secretary by Emily Thornberry.

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.

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”.

Mr Cameron said the Tories had increased spending on flood defences to £2 billion as he taunted the Opposition leader over his drawn-out reshuffle which has prompted two shadow ministers to resign this morning, with more expected to follow.

Labour’s free vote over air strikes in Syria meant Mr Benn was at liberty to make the comments without fear of reprisal, said Mr McDonnell, who compared Mr Corbyn’s attitude to the Prime Minister’s offer of a free vote over Europe.

Mr Reynolds, who stood down as shadow rail minister, said: “I think there is a danger that we might become too Londoncentric – that’s a regular complaint from Labour Party members in my area – not just limited to Jeremy’s administration”.

On the issue of whether the United Kingdom should withdraw from Nato, Livingstone said: “That’s one of the things it will look at”.

Labour MP Ian Austin summed up the reshuffle as Dugher being sacked “for calling for unity”, McFadden “for criticising IS” and Eagle “moved for backing party policy”.

“In the current anti-politics environment, I suspect one of the reasons why Jeremy did so well in the summer selection was because people were looking for an authentic politician”.

Thornberry has voted against renewing Trident.

Corbyn yesterday had still not announced his re-shuffle.

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

Not only would Corbyn alienate the wing of his party that McFadden and Dugher represent if he sacked Benn, he would also alienate himself from the some of the unions who are important financial backers of Labour. We need to ask: ‘What is our place in the world?’

He defended the length of the reshuffle, saying his “great failing in life” is to “listen to everybody at whatever great length they wish to speak to me”.