Labour Party announced that Emily Thornberry would replace Maria Eagle as defense spokeswoman.
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Thornberry, who opposes the renewal of the Trident missile system, replaced Maria Eagle as Shadow Defence Secretary.
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.
Corbyn fired the Europe minister, Pat McFadden, for being disloyal, McFadden said, when in the aftermath of the November terrorist attacks in Paris he said those who insisted that Western societies, not the terrorists themselves, were to blame.
Mr Corbyn is expected to use the first day of the Commons’ return from Christmas recess to finalise the shake-up of his top team, after late-night talks with key members of the shadow cabinet ended without any announcement on Monday.
On Hilary Benn, who was tipped to lose his seat as shadow foreign secretary, but who will stay in post on the understanding he toes the line publicly with the leader on foreign policy, he said: “I’ve had lots of conversations with Hilary Benn and we get on fine”.
Wayne David, a Labour frontbencher who has not resigned from Corbyn’s team, said this was a “very sad” week for the party.
Mr Corbyn’s switch over, which took 30 hours, has led to the resignation of three shadow front-benchers and the sacking of Barnsley East MP Michael Dugher, former shadow culture minister, and Pat McFadden former shadow Europe minister. “I said what?” an astonished McFadden asked Winterton.
“I finally signed it off just before I got up to speak”.
“We are confident that when the economic, security and other factors are taken into consideration, that a new policy will be decided that responds to the needs of the 21st century”.
One senior MP close to Mr Corbyn said people outside the political bubble “won’t know whose these people are”.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell dismissed the trio as being from “a narrow right-wing clique” who refused to “respect” the result of the leadership election and accept Mr Corbyn’s strong mandate from party members and supporters.
McFadden’s comments were interpreted as an attack on the Stop the War Coalition, which Corbyn used to chair.
Mr Corbyn said he was onstage at a central London rally, which began at 6.30pm on Wednesday January 6, as he finally put an end to a reshuffle which began on Monday lunchtime.
He said there had been “nothing straightforward or honest” in the conduct of the reshuffle and claimed Labour was being run in a “very top-down” manner. “The onus is on him to learn the lessons of the last 100 days and to make sure that the Labour Party is turned into a credible party of opposition, but also more importantly a credible party of government-and we’ve a long way to go to do that”.
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Directly challenged on whether he believed Britain should remain part of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, he added: “That’s one of the things we will look at”.
