New UK Opposition Leader Vows to Fight Austerity, Antiunion Legislation

Some MPs have also expressed concern about his position on Europe amid uncertainty about whether he would countenance campaigning to leave the European Union in a referendum due to happen before 2017.

On his own role, Mr Murray said: “The shadow cabinet needs a strong Scottish voice because we have big issues in Scotland in terms of the Scotland Bill, the elections coming up and developing a policy platform for Scotland”.

The new Labour leader has crowd-sourced the questions for his first appearance, receiving more than 40,000 suggestions from supporters.

A CITY MP has pledged his support for the new left-wing leader of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn by serving in his shadow cabinet.

And on Tuesday Mr Corbyn attended a service at St Paul’s Cathedral to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, and declined to join the singing of the national anthem.

However, Corbyn did something incredibly clever and will likely score some points for him amongst the 59.5% which voted him in.

Political commentators and social media users appear largely in favour of the new-style PMQs with BBC journalist, Laura Kuenssberg claiming it was a “revolution in beige”.

I was one of 62 members who put in to speak.

“We oppose the benefit cap”.

“Far from celebrating this turmoil, for me, as chancellor, this means going back to first principles and winning again the arguments made by both Conservative and previous Labour governments alike”, he said.

“Gross levels of poverty and inequality, that is what the Tories have in store for us”, he said in a speech interrupted by applause and rewarded with a standing ovation.

The new leader of the opposition has been under intense scrutiny and criticism after he failed to sing the national anthem when representing the Labour Party at a World War Two remembrance service.

National Insurance paid by workers current falls dramatically, from 12% to 2%, on salaries above £42,380.

McDonnell dismissed claims that women had been snubbed for the top jobs and insisted the health and education portfolios – which have gone to Heidi Alexander and Lucy Powell – are more important than the great offices of state.

Mr Cameron said: “It’s excellent we’ve got those devolution proposals and a number of different ideas”.