6, 2016 Corbyn moved defense spokeswoman Maria Eagle, who opposed him on nuclear weapons, to another post, and fired two other members of his frontbench team who had criticized him.
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As you can see below; Jonathan Reynolds and Stephen Doughty, who resigned over the reshuffle, didn’t take Abbott’s remarks very well.
Mr Reynolds tore into shadow worldwide development secretary Diane Abbott after she wrongly dismissed those who had quit as career politicians who had all been special advisers.
Other resignations have not been ruled out.
Another Corbyn critic, Hilary Benn, held on to his position as shadow foreign secretary, despite repeatedly clashing with the Labour leader in recent months.
The labour leader had faced a mass walk-out of 10 MPs if Benn had been replaced.
To keep his position, Benn had to promise not to challenge Corbyn’s foreign policy positions so openly again in parliamentary debates, even though he had done so in the first place with Corbyn’s permission.
“So what I would say to you – we’re putting in the money, we’re putting it in more quickly, the military got involved more quickly, and to that couple who got flooded we are also doing something that previous governments spoke about but never achieved, which is to have an insurance scheme so that every single household in our country can get insured – Flood Re”.
Labour’s finance spokesman John McDonnell said that Corbyn had recently questioned some lawmakers’ loyalty to his vision for the party.
Mr Corbyn also faced controversy over the appointment of Emily Thornberry as his new shadow Defence Secretary after it emerged she accepted donations from a law firm facing disciplinary action over its role in an inquiry into allegations of murder and torture by British soldiers.
Mrs Thornberry has been the Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005, re-elected in 2015 with a healthy 12,000 vote majority.
Thornberry accepted a £14,500 donation money from Leigh Day, which faces a tribunal over the way it handled the claims, which were described as “deliberate lies” by the UK’s legal watchdog.
Corbyn’s changes – dubbed a “revenge reshuffle” in the press – were announced after two days of closed-door meetings, and were more limited than many had anticipated.
“In the current anti-politics environment, I suspect one of the reasons why Jeremy did so well in the summer selection was because people were looking for an authentic politician.
Nobody thinks Michael Dugher or Pat McFadden are the slightest bit incompetent”.
Mr Dugher had shown “incompetence” and “serial disloyalty”, while Mr McFadden had made thinly-veiled criticisms of the leader on issues such as his response to the Paris terror attacks.
Pat Glass has been promoted to replace Mr McFadden, according to senior party sources.
He said: “We were promised when Mr Corbyn took over that there would be a new and open and more pluralist politics where people could speak their mind”.
He said it would be “suicide” to launch an attack on Russian Federation, saying the United Kingdom only had “enough to start a war, not to win a war”.
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He added: “I have enjoyed the role a great deal and particularly the discussions I have had with you personally”.
