Jeremy Corbyn, British Labour leader, finishes shadow cabinet reorganization

Two Labour/Co-op MPs have resigned their shadow minister posts following Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle.

Labour finance spokesman John McDonnell, a close Corbyn colleague, said the trio were from a “narrow, right-wing clique” who disrespected Corbyn’s mandate.

“Certainly, when I spoke to Mr Corbyn late last night a fair few times on the phone he said that he felt that it was an attack on him and that he’d come to the conclusion because of that, and one or two other things, that I shouldn’t continue”, Fadden told the BBC.

Gone is Maria Eagle – who backs a replacement for Trident and voted against her leader over airstrikes in Syria – to be replaced with Emily Thornberry.

Paraphrasing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, a poem in which an albatross carries a curse on the crew of a ship, Mr Cameron said: “Never mind how many Eagles we end up with, I think you have all worked out you’ve got an albatross at the head of your party”.

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.

Labour’s official policy, agreed by its party conference, is to support renewal of Trident, but Corbyn has hinted he might consult the membership to win support for changing the position – overriding the usual policymaking process.

Backbencher Wes Streeting said he was “gutted” at the news of Mr McFadden’s sacking, calling Mr Corbyn and his team a “shower”.

His new appointments are: Kate Hollern, who becomes a shadow defence minister; Jenny Chapman, who becomes a shadow education minister; Jo Stevens becomes shadow prisons minister; Andy McDonald becomes shadow transport minister, Angela Rayner, shadow work and pensions and Fabian Hamilton, shadow foreign affairs.

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”.

A Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015 photo from files showing Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaving his home in London to attend a debate in Parliament.

JEREMY CORBYN can draw strength from this week’s messy front bench shake-up, his supporters said yesterday amid a flurry of resignations from “unknown” junior spokesmen.

As with Dugher’s dismissal Tuesday, which was followed by a series of tributes from remaining members of the shadow cabinet, McFadden’s departure was marked by warm words from some of those left behind.

There were now 17 women and 14 men in the full shadow cabinet.

Denying he had staged a “revenge reshuffle”, he instead told regional journalists his move – which prompted three frontbench resignations – was merely an “adjustment”.

“It’s a choice for him, in some ways I think it’s the right choice to make if he doesn’t agree with Jeremy, but if he’s using the example of Stop the War as a threat to national security I think that’s a completely bogus reason for resigning”.

Mr Doughty said Mr McFadden’s sacking, over comments he made in the House of Commons on terrorism, had been a deciding factor.