Jeremy Corbyn begins Shadow Cabinet reshuffle – Emily Thornberry for Shadow Foreign Secretary
After losing 12 members of his Shadow Cabinet on Sunday and with a vote of no confidence looming, there was speculation that Jeremy Corbyn would have a hard time filling the vacancies. However, this morning Labour have announced his new Shadow Cabinet recruits. The list of ten new appointments is comprised of many known Corbyn loyalists, as well as a round of new MPs who came through in the 2015 General Election: Emily Thornberry has been promoted to Shadow Foreign Secretary, while Diane Abbott has been given the role of Shadow Health Secretary. Pat Glass’s EU gaffe (in which she called a voter a ‘horrible racist‘) seems to have done her