Summary

  • David Cameron tells Marr he's "hopeful" of an EU deal in February and referendum is likely after September

  • He says he'll stay on as PM - and "do everything necessary to make it work" - if UK votes to leave EU

  • Shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer urges Labour to "come together" after recent reshuffle

  • Labour MP Alison McGovern has quit a party policy group over differences with the leadership

  1. Michael Dugher: Labour Party losing working class voterspublished at 09:55

    BBC Radio Sheffield

    Michael Dugher, who was sacked as culture secretary yesterday, has said the Labour Party is losing touch with working class communities and said the party was at a "crossroads":

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    I will fight very hard to get a Labour Party that is actually in touch with ordinary decent people - most of them in the centre ground... We've got to get Labour back in touch with a lot of those traditional working class communities where, if we're being honest, we've lost a lot of support over the years."

  2. Stephen Kinnock: Corbyn will struggle to achieve loyaltypublished at 09:50

    BBC Radio London

    Stephen Kinnock

    The Labour MP Stephen Kinnock has warned Jeremy Corbyn will struggle to achieve loyalty from his party considering his own track record of defying former Labour leaders. 

    He said: “We have a leader who himself as an MP over the 30 years he’s been in parliament has defied the whip 550 times and he’s now looking to lead a loyalty-driven reshuffle. 

    "That just inevitably causes challenges and it’s going to cause push back because people say well you yourself haven’t got a track record of loyalty.“

    Mr Kinnock also called on the party to move on, saying: “I think now we’ve got to find a way of putting this behind us and actually turning our fire back on this government because they are our opponents.

    "We’ve got to stop turning the fire on ourselves.”

  3. Has Corbyn passed test of authority?published at 09:43

    Laura Kuenssberg
    BBC political editor

    Reshuffles are a test of leaders' authority. So where did Jeremy Corbyn get his way, and where did he not?

    He wanted a new face at defence, and he got one by moving Maria Eagle. That will go some way to neutralising brewing rows over renewing nuclear weapons. And he's made it clear that members of the shadow cabinet will have to, perhaps not to toe the party line every moment of every day, but at least not jump all over it on a regular basis.

    There may still be more than traditional levels of disagreement, but Mr Corbyn has reintroduced an element of the traditional rule, that if you are in the top team, you more or less keep your disagreements private. He has also increased the number of women in the shadow cabinet.

    Where did Mr Corbyn fail to get his way?

    He wasn't able to move his big target, Hilary Benn the shadow foreign secretary. Benn has had to agree he will be less public on issues where the two men disagree. Mr Corbyn has caused more concern and more bad feeling in parts of the parliamentary party over how this whole thing has been handled.

    There have been elements of what can only be described as pantomime in the last 48 hours. And by sacking Pat McFadden, in part because of his views on terrorism, Mr Corbyn risks an internal row in precisely one of the areas where the Labour leader is already vulnerable.

    Overall, Mr Corbyn has disappointed and angered many Labour MPs who already had grave doubts about his ability.

    One senior figure, who is not what Corbyn's supporters would consider to be a right-winger out to get him, described it to me as a "total disaster". But he has made some of the changes he wanted to make and tried to assert some authority - in the next few months, the question will be: At what cost.

  4. Labour reaction to Jeremy Corbyn's reshufflepublished at 09:40

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  5. Sadiq Khan on Jeremy Corbynpublished at 09:35

    BBC Radio London

    Labour's mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has defended Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle, saying: "Love him or loathe him, he always stands up for what he believes."

    But he insisted he would be his own man if elected to the London role, saying: "It's my name on the ballot, not Jeremy Corbyn."     

  6. Coming up in the Commons todaypublished at 09:30

    MPs had a very late night on Tuesday, sitting until 02:30 GMT. Today proceedings kick off with Scotland questions ahead of PMQs, followed by opposition day debates on Universal Credit and flooding. 

  7. The (slightly) new look Corbyn shadow cabinetpublished at 09:22

    After minimal changes in a long reshuffle, here's an updated list of who does what in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet (changes are in bold):

    Jeremy Corbyn - leader of the opposition 

    Tom Watson - deputy leader, party chair and shadow cabinet office minister

    John McDonnell - shadow chancellor of the exchequer

    Emily Thornberry - shadow defence secretary  

    Andy Burnham - shadow home secretary

    Hilary Benn - shadow foreign secretary

    Angela Eagle - shadow business secretary and shadow first secretary of state 

    Maria Eagle - shadow culture secretary

    Rosie Winterton - opposition chief whip

    Heidi Alexander - shadow health secretary

    Lucy Powell - shadow education secretary

    Owen Smith - shadow Work and Pensions secretary

    Seema Malhotra - shadow chief secretary to the Treasury  

    Lord Falconer - shadow justice secretary and shadow Lord Chancellor

    Lisa Nandy - shadow energy secretary

    Jon Trickett - shadow communities and local government secretary and constitutional covention minister

    Chris Bryant - shadow leader of the House of Commons

    Lilian Greenwood - shadow transport secretary

    Vernon Coaker - shadow Northern Ireland secretary

    Nia Griffith - shadow Wales secretary

    Ian Murray - shadow Scotland secretary

    Diane Abbott - shadow international development secretary  

    Kerry McCarthy - shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary

    Kate Green - shadow woman and equalities minister

    Gloria De Piero - shadow young people and voter registration minister

    Luciana Berger - shadow mental health minister

    Baroness Smith - shadow leader of the House of the Lords

    Lord Bassam - House of Lords opposition chief whip

    Also attends cabinet:

    Catherine McKinnel - shadow attorney general

    Jonathan Ashworth - shadow minister without portfolio

    John Healey - shadow housing and planning minister  

  8. The new shadow cabinet regime: Deal or no deal?published at 09:21

    Paul Waugh, political editor of the Huffington Post, casts doubt on the new arrangements for the shadow foreign secretary to dissent from the leadership:

  9. Ken Livingstone defends reshuffle sackingspublished at 09:18

    BBC Radio London

    Ken Livingstone, who is co-chairing Labour's review of Trident, has insisted Jeremy Corbyn was right to get rid of Michael Dugher and Pat McFadden, saying: "You can't have shadow team going on telly and slagging off Jeremy."  

  10. Alex Salmond hits the airwavespublished at 09:15

    LBC has announced former first minister Alex Salmond is to get his own radio phone-in show. 

  11. Shadow minister 'likely to resign after McFadden's sacking'published at 09:05

    Laura Kuenssberg
    BBC political editor

    One shadow minister has told the BBC he is likely to resign this morning in protest at the sacking of Pat McFadden for his views on terrorism

    I understand a handful of junior ministers are considering their positions in the wake of the reshuffle.

  12. Agonising decisions for shadow cabinetpublished at 08:58 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2016

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  13. The new, new politics?published at 08:50

    McDonnell

    The shadow chancellor has given some clues as to how the shadow cabinet will operate from now on. 

    He said in the future on a free vote, shadow cabinet members would be allowed to disagree with the leadership from the backbenches but would not be allowed to disagree with the leader's position while speaking for the party from the frontbench. 

    It's yet to be seen whether or not this is really a workable - or lasting - solution.

    BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg asked whether we should be calling this "the new, new politics".  

  14. Chuka Umunna calls Cameron's Europe move 'ludicrous'published at 08:45

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Former Chancellor Lord Lawson has welcomed David Cameron's decision to allow his ministers to campaign for an EU exit, saying it was "the sensible thing to do" and would not necessarily make Brexit more likely. 

    Labour MP Chuka Umunna called the agreement "fairly ludicrous" and said it came down to whether "you have a small view or a big view of this country". 

  15. Watch: Pat McFadden on why he was sacked by Jeremy Corbynpublished at 08:40

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    Watch: Pat McFadden on why he was sacked by Jeremy Corbyn

  16. 'Nothing has changed' over Tridentpublished at 08:26

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    The shadow chancellor shrugged off the idea that appointing Emily Thornberry - who opposes Trident renewal - to the shadow defence brief would prejudice the outcome of the party's review of the system. 

    "Nothing has changed on the process, we believe in democracy and down to our members to decide our policy as before," he said. 

  17. John McDonnell denies 'gagging' Hilary Bennpublished at 08:25

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Mr McFadden had "distorted" the party leader's views and if he had been unhappy he should have expressed his views on the backbenches.

    The shadow chancellor also denied shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn had been gagged, saying he can disagree with Jeremy Corbyn but would not speak against his leader's line from the front bench again (as happened on the Syria bombing debate)

  18. In quotes: John McDonnell on McFaddenpublished at 08:17

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  19. Pat McFadden's criticism of Corbyn 'unfair'published at 08:15

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has explained the decision to get rid of shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden by saying "Jeremy needed to have confidence in someone in a major brief" and Mr McFadden's criticisms of the leader had at times been "unfair". 

  20. Recap: The reshuffle changes in fullpublished at 08:05

    A recap, while we wait for shadow chancellor John McDonnell's interview on Today....

    Jeremy Corbyn has completed his reshuffle after two long days of negotiations/meetings etc. One shadow cabinet minister, culture spokesman Michael Dugher was sacked, and one shadow minister, Europe spokesman Pat McFadden. Both were given the chop because of disloyalty.

    Shadow defence spokeswoman Maria Eagle (who disagrees with Jeremy Corbyn on Trident) has been moved to become shadow culture secretary.

    The new entry to the shadow cabinet is Emily Thornberry who takes on the defence brief. Pat Glass takes over the Europe minister role.