Labour’s Shadow Attorney General quits cabinet

McKinnell said Labour was heading down an “increasingly negative path” amid “internal conflict” stemming from the recent shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Iain McNicol, Labour’s most senior official, told MPs at a parliamentary meeting that any changes to the way policy was made had to be agreed at the party’s autumn conference. However, shadow civil society minister Anna Turley has said she had “no problem” with the corporation’s actions.

When asked directly if she would resign if the party did officially back scrapping Trident she said: “I would be very surprised if we get to a position where the Labour Party policy is one of unilateral disarmament.

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

Shadow Scottish Secretary Mr Murray told BBC Scotland: “Some people in the Shadow Cabinet, including the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, should really ramp down the rhetoric a little bit”.

The former Oasis star, who famously endorsed New Labour as they swept to power in 1997, says Tony Blair’s years in opposition were “amazing” but admitted he was left disappointed by their record in office.

On Twitter, Ms Sherriff said she had stepped down “to focus on my campaign to defend Dewsbury & District from Tory cuts” and her work on the Health Select Committee.

But, Mc McKinnell also revealed she had grown disillusioned with Labour’s prospects under Mr Corbyn.

Sir Paul said there were tens of thousands of jobs at around 50 sites in the United Kingdom that depended on defence contracts.

He wrote in Sunday’s Observer newspaper that he’d created a “stronger, more diverse and more coherent leadership team”.

Internal party documents seen by The Guardian suggest staff will have to be laid off as a result of cuts.

But a party spokesman insisted that Mr Corbyn was on record as wanting to involve party members much more in policy-making and was determined to find ways to allow that.

He also pushed Maria Eagle into the shadow culture role, replacing her as shadow defence secretary with Emily Thornberry – who also shares the Labour leader’s opposition to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons programme.

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. “Jeremy’s perfectly entitled to say he wants to change that policy but he needs to go through the same democratic process that arrived at that policy in the first place”, he said.