Jeremy Corbyn to finalise shadow cabinet reshuffle

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Mr Livingstone suggested there isn’t any point in Britain holding a nuclear deterrent because “stop the Argentinians invading the Falkland Islands” and claimed “having nuclear weapons doesn’t make you safe”.

He welcomed Scottish Labour’s conference vote in favour of scrapping the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

Asked for Mr Corbyn’s reaction to the resignations, a senior Labour source said: “He will be thanking those people for their service and the filling the vacancies”. “You start off with a chess board and that’s fine, then you realise you’re playing a game on a parallel board as well and then you suddenly find there’s a third board down the way”.

Labour was engulfed in another defence row after the co-chair of an internal party review said it could recommend leaving North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

“I have just written to Jeremy to resign”. “So did Tom Watson”. And what you’re seeing is people who came up under a certain system.

Jonathan Reynolds and Stephen Doughty quit over the sacking of the shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden.

Two other members of Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench have resigned following his shadow cabinet reshuffle: Shadow Foreign Minister Stephen Doughty and Shadow Defence Minister Kevan Jones. Ms Eagle was shifted sideways to succeed Michael Dugher, who was sacked as shadow Culture Secretary. “He said he felt that it was an attack on him”.

Another Corbyn critic, Hilary Benn, held on to his position as shadow foreign secretary, despite repeatedly clashing with the Labour leader in recent months.

Mr Corbyn could otherwise have again found himself at loggerheads with the shadow minister supposed to be presenting the party’s position in Parliament.

Mr Benn openly spoke about supporting air strikes over Syria.

He said he would be carrying on with his job “exactly as before”.

Mr Benn said he was “r eally sad to lose” Mr Doughty from the front bench, adding he would “miss his wisdom, insight and comradeship”.

“The issues involved go to the heart of Britain’s national security”.

During Wednesday’s reshuffle, Corbyn fired two other Labour figures.

Meanwhile, reporters waiting for news on the Westminster shake-up had kind words for Wentworth and Dearne MP and shadow housing and planning minister.

“There were issues where there has been undermining of his(Corbyn’s) leadership and not accepting his mandate from the party members that he received in the election”, he told Sky News.

Corbyn, a veteran left-wing activist, was elected party leader after the election by tapping into a desire for change among grass-roots party members.

That is because during the four general elections under Blair and Brown, local Labour parties weren’t allowed to choose the candidate they wanted, they had to select from a list approved by the party bureaucracy.

The PM replied: “I have the greatest sympathy with anyone who has been flooded and we have to do what it takes to get to people and get communities back on their feet”.

“But frankly, we don’t need a lecture from Malta from you”.

“Hilary Benn has ensured that he works more closely with Jeremy in the future and that he will be representing the views of the Labour Party”, he said.

“But we have to try to move on from this”.

It was “pretty disgraceful conduct from the leader of a party that seeks to govern”, he said.