Jeremy Corbyn’s Team Admit Pat McFadden Was Sacked Over Terror Attack Comment

The idea that Jeremy Corbyn would have responded to the Christmas floods faster than the Government when it takes the Labour leader three days to reshuffle his shadow cabinet is laughable, David Cameron has said.

Shadow railways minister Jonathan Reynolds, shadow foreign affairs minister Stephen Doughty and shadow minister for the armed forces Kevan Jones resigned in protest over the sackings today.

Mr Dugher said he had been removed for speaking out about the systematic “trashing” of the reputations of shadow cabinet colleagues briefed to the media to be in danger from a “revenge reshuffle”.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell dismissed the trio who walked out as being from “a narrow right-wing clique” who refused to “respect” the result of the leadership election and accept Mr Corbyn’s strong mandate from party members and supporters.

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.

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.

There had been widespread speculation over the future position of Mr Benn – who has been at odds with Mr Corbyn over bombing Syria.

But Jonathan Reynolds, the party’s rail spokesman, said in his resignation letter posted on Facebook: “I understand your need for a greater degree of discipline on the front bench and therefore believe it would be more appropriate to advocate these causes as a backbencher (a rank and file Labour lawmaker)”.

Mr Livingstone described Britain’s membership of the 28-country alliance as not a “a particularly big issue” and suggested it didn’t matter “terribly much” because the Cold War was now over.

He said: “I actually wrote what I thought”. The friends agreed the shadow foreign secretary had agreed to work more closely over the presentation of policy.

Mr Corbyn said: “We have a Freedom of Information Act which is very, very important because freedom of information is essential in any democracy if you are to hold to account those that exercise authority, power or administration”.

Early Wednesday Corbyn moved defense spokeswoman Maria Eagle, who opposed him on nuclear weapons, to another post, and fired two other members of his team who had criticized him. “The reason I don’t see it happening is because I think it would be inconsistent with what Jeremy has talked about since he got the leadership, which is about ” having debate”, he said. “He clearly feels that me saying that terrorists are entirely responsible for their actions, he clearly interpreted that as an attack on him”.

He added: “North Korea’s deeply disturbing claim to have exploded its first hydrogen bomb underlines the importance of taking our national security seriously, not handing it to a Labour Party that would unilaterally disarm Britain”.

“On the issue of a statutory duty, everybody knows what they have to do when floods take place”.