U.K. Labour Shadow Attorney General Quits Over Corbyn Leadership

The jibe – delivered during bitter infighting over Mr Corbyn’s reshuffle – triggered the resignation of Alison McGovern, who chairs Progress, from a party policy review on child poverty. Owen Smith, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said it would be hard for him to remain in the shadow cabinet if the party supported a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Labour’s Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell has quit the shadow cabinet over concerns about the direction of Labour under leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The unease over his response to Isis terrorists set the backdrop to last week’s shadow cabinet reshuffle which saw a redefinition of Corbyn’s working relationship with the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the removal of the pro-Trident Maria Eagle as shadow defence secretary.

McKinnell’s replacement will be a tricky choice for Corbyn, as the job has to be done by a lawyer.

She is the fourth shadow minister to resign in the past week and to criticise direction under Mr Corbyn.

Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff also stood down from her role as an aide to Shadow Local Government Secretary John Trickett.

He said that the GMB would mobilise workers at 50 defence industry sites across the United Kingdom to oppose any effort to scrap Trident.

He told World at One presenter Martha Kearney that Labour policy-making already has a process and rules that must be adhered to.

Mr Kenny said: “If anybody thinks unions like the GMB are going to go quietly into the night while tens of thousands of our members’ jobs are Swaneed away by rhetoric, they’ve got another shock coming”.

Her decision to step down comes amid continuing turmoil within the party after Mr Corbyn made changes to his frontbench team.

The Trade Union Bill, being debated in the Lords on Monday, would require Labour-affiliated union members to “opt in” to paying a levy to the party.

Sir Paul said: “This is a direct attack on the Labour Party’s ability to raise funds”.

“I am happy with it. We are moving on”, he said.

He added: “The Labour party policy at the moment, reaffirmed at the party conference recently, is the renewal of Trident”. It’s something that I really do not think Jeremy Corbyn and his team have thought about.

On Now, Corbyn said he meant for non-parliamentary members of his party-more inclined to be anti-Trident than his members of parliament-to have a “large say” in determining the party’s policy with this problem.