Out MP Ben Bradshaw storms out of ‘f**king shambles’ Labour meeting

Exeter MP and former minister Ben Bradshaw reportedly left saying the event was a “total ****ing shambles”.

Mr Bradshaw is one of Labour’s most influential LGB politicians, and previously served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport under Gordon Brown.

Yesterday John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor and Corbyn’s close ally, announced that he was abandoning the stance he took just last month and that he was now committing Labour to voting against the government’s charter for budget responsibility.

In a letter circulated by McDonnell to MPs ahead of the vote and obtained by the Guardian, he said: “As the nature and scale of the cuts Osborne is planning are emerging, there is a growing reaction not just in our communities but even within the Conservative party”.

“Set up as a political trick to trap Labour, Ed Balls and Chris Leslie, it has totally ensnared John McDonnell within weeks of his appointment”.

The Conservative MP said: “It’s also very important to recognise that the institutions were not functioning before that and the real and the deeper reason for this problem as far as I can see is the design of those institutions”.

Mr Woodcock accused Ms Abbott of behaving like an “internet troll”.

In a House of Commons debate on Syria on Monday, Cox is expected to say Labour should not allow the experience of Iraq to blind it to the need to back the use of military force for humanitarian ends, as it did in Bosnia, Kosovo and Sierra Leone.

“I suspect my colleagues, on reflection, will calm down and devote their energies to attacking Osborne and his mismanagement of the economy”. Few of them supported Corbyn in the leadership campaign, despite the new leader receiving the overwhelming backing of ordinary members.

She added: “Some people in the party are only slowly coming to terms with the fact that Jeremy won”.

The Daily Mail’s Matt Chorley chimed in, too, sounding less than convinced that Abbott’s appearance would abate Labour’s economic credibility wobble. “Richard Burgon said it was the same as organisations within Labour such as the Fabians”, said Corbyn’s spokesperson afterwards, who finished the press briefing by joking he’d be handing in his notice soon.

The focus of all the anger, a U-turn over voting with the Government on George Osborne’s plan to run a budget surplus by 2019.

And it’s possible that the general direction of the Parliamentary Labour Party on this issue is not the same direction as its leader, Jeremy Corbyn.