Garston MP Maria Eagle made no comment as she left a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn amid speculation about a Labour reshuffle.
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Shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle and shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn both backed the government in extending air strikes into Syria.
Shadow leader of the House Chris Bryant said he was “sorry to see” Mr Dugher had left the shadow cabinet.
Reports have suggested that Benn may swap jobs with Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham.
Shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher yesterday warned Mr Corbyn against a “purge” of the shadow cabinet, insisting it risked making the party look like a “religious cult”. “So I think I want to pace myself, like most people who come into parliament”.
Mr Livingstone also reminded moaning right-wingers that Labour is far more inclusive now than under Tony Blair’s leadership “when everyone had to follow a narrow line”. “Ultimately that’ll be a decision for Jeremy”. “I wished him a happy new year”.
“Is it best to have Hilary in a job where he’s going to disagree with Jeremy Corbyn again and again or should he be in one – say, like environment – where I’m sure they are in complete agreement?”
The Tooting MP said the windfall tax was one of a number of examples of areas where “it is important for me to be my own person”.
Ms Greenwood told the Murnaghan programme: “Jeremy will set out his thoughts over the next days and weeks, I imagine”.
Specifically, the rumours are that Shadow Defence Secretary Angela Eagle and Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn could lose their positions for supporting the extension of the bombing campaign against ISIS into Syria.
Kim Howells, a former Labour minister, labelled the leadership of the party ‘super-annuated Trotskyist oppositionists.
Emerging from the party leader’s office, she told journalists: “I don’t have anything to say to you”.
“I think you have all worked out you’ve got an albatross at the head of your party”.
“These things are always discussed, you get sometimes over-enthusiastic aides sort of nudging a leader in one particular direction”. They are not real politicians and I am afraid it is a disaster.
“A reshuffle for that reason could end up being petty and divisive”. “I don’t think removing him makes Labour’s chances of winning any greater”.
Harman said: “We can’t have a men-only leadership when we are party for women and equality”.
Mr Coyle said: “The idea that Corbyn must only include clones and drones in the shadow cabinet is farcical”.
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In September, Tom Watson was elected deputy to Mr Corbyn, who was accused of failing to put sufficient female MPs into the most prominent positions in his shadow cabinet despite having a 50/50 split overall.
