BBC: You’re also a man who nominated Jeremy Corbyn to be leader of the Labour party, so you support him and what he wants to do?
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Graham Jones, Labour MP for Haslingden and Hyndburn in Lancashire, tweeted: “With the sacking of Dugher, traditional working-class Labour is dying”.
A reshuffle tonight or tomorrow morning would see a new team in place for tomorrow’s scheduled shadow cabinet, the first of 2016.
However by 9pm on Monday night the chaotic reshuffle was still not finalised despite Mr Corbyn spending seven hours in a series of meetings with his aides and members of the shadow cabinet.
The shadow culture secretary, Michael Dugher, one of those believed to be at risk in the impending reorganisation, told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics programme on Sunday that previous Labour leaders with whom he had worked closely had been reluctant to “go down the path of big reshuffles”.
“Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the party”.
It is not only @jeremycorbyn to whom @MichaelDugher did a disservice.
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham voted with Mr Corbyn.
Now shadow worldwide development secretary, a higher profile job would help Mr Corbyn achieve his aim of having more women in top shadow cabinet positions.
“He is trying to realign his top team to match more what the PLP is and more what the party is”.
The controversial leader is expected to swing the axe on a number of his senior shadow ministers, not least because some of them voted against his line when it came to Parliament endorsing air strikes on Syria in the wake of November 2015’s Paris terror attacks.
Former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie criticised the decision to sack Mr Dugher.
He said: “Look, when I saw Ed Miliband standing under a big lump of stone, the “Edstone”, I began to realise that the Labour Party had fallen under the control of lunatics and I’m not sure it escaped that control, I think they’ve probably gone even deeper in that embrace because they feel so much more comfortable there”.
“I am. So I have got to set out over the course of the next 120 days who I am”. They want to sideline moderate voices when they have the chance to do so.
“There isn’t a cabinet or a shadow cabinet in history that doesn’t have a range of different points of view, that doesn’t have to manage these issues”.
The shadow defence secretary fundamentally disagrees with Mr Corbyn’s position on Syria and Trident, making her vulnerable in any reshuffle.
I would suggest no hope at all and by his bloodymindedness will never get the opportunity to fight the corner of the downtrodden from Downing Street because like the rest of the cloth-eared Parliamentarians, of all political persuasion, they “always know best” and refuse to listen, until they need our vote.
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Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London and close ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said it is “quite likely” that Hilary Benn could lose his post as Shadow Foreign Secretary as Corbyn reshuffles his shadow cabinet.
