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. In quotes: Pat McFadden on the question of loyaltypublished at 08:00

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    I’ve worked for Labour leaders over many years, from John Smith, Donald Dewar, Tony Blair. I’ve been an MP for eleven and a half years, and I have never broken the Labour whip, so I don’t think there’s a question of loyalty at all, but sometimes there’s disagreements over issues and Mr Corbyn has not been happy with things I’ve said particularly about terrorism and national security."

  2. Night of the long knives? Well it was a very long night....published at 07:50

    Chris Mason
    Political Correspondent

    For hours, reporters loitered in a stairwell for news of Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle. And for hours, we learnt nothing.

    A passing Conservative MP, who is pregnant, suggested her labour might be over before Labour's reshuffle was.

    One of my Twitter followers suggested the DFS sale might even have finished by the time we heard any news. So, we waited.

    Half a dozen of us doing what comes best to reporters.Hanging around doing nothing.Two MPs kindly brought us a drink.

    Another offered the use of his office kettle.

    On the walls around us, pictures of senior politicians down the ages.I had Frederick North, the Second Earl of Guilford, for company, prime minister from 1770-1782, apparently.

    I wonder what he would have made of it all.

    Twitter might have taken some explaining to the Earl for a start. Occasionally there would be flurry of excitement as the lift went past.

    The good news is it was a glass lift. The bad news is it zipped past rather quickly.

    Then, just before midnight, what counted for a dramatic development. Jeremy Corbyn was going home. He was going to bed.

    Good for him. We weren't. We still didn't have any news.And, when it came, it wasn't so much the Night of the Long Knives as just a Very Long Night.

    Very little actually changed.

    Both this and the time the reshuffle took are indications of Mr Corbyn's limited room for manoeuvre.

    "We never intended to have a Big Bang," Labour sources insisted.

    With more than a hint of the absurd, us stairwell dwellers were then invited in for a briefing, well after midnight.

    I've been to 'early morning' briefings before, but this was a new spin on that genre.

    In the briefing, Labour sources, as I'm obliged to call them, were clear about Jeremy Corbyn's goal: greater coherence on policy and less tolerance for what one called "abuse" from his colleagues.

    And yet, take a listen to the language used to justify the sacking of Michael Dugher: he was branded not just "disloyal" but "incompetent."

    Mr Dugher told me it wasn't sensible for the leader's office to get into a debate with him about "loyalty" or "competence."

    Pat McFadden, who'd been shadow Europe Minister, was "serially disloyal," sources said.

    Friends of Mr McFadden expressed their anger, with one suggesting the Labour Party was being "driven off a cliff."

    There's been a coarsening of language within the Labour movement in recent months when parts of it choose to describe their colleagues.

    And this reshuffle has done nothing to change that.

    It's also done nothing to change Jeremy Corbyn's fundamental challenge, of which this was just the latest case study: how does he square managing a party where plenty of his party members love him, but plenty of his MPs think he's a nightmare?

    That question rumbles on. But, thankfully, my stairwell loitering does not.

  3. In quotes: John McDonnell on the length of time reshuffle tookpublished at 07:41

    BBC Breakfast

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    It was never going to be this hyped up night of the long knives. Jeremy Corbyn's politics, the new politics he's introduced, basically he's a very caring and considerate person and he wanted to listen to people's views, he wanted to be as inclusive as possible in reviewing our performance over the last three months, so literally, he's been bringing people in, taking their advice, talking to them, taking his time, properly and frankly not playing the media game of wanting quick decisions but getting the right decisions and that's what's happened."

  4. McFadden: Corbyn interpreted my words on terrorism as an attack on himpublished at 07:37

    Ross Hawkins
    Political correspondent

    The sacked shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden has told Today Jeremy Corbyn interpreted comments about not infantilising terrorists as an attack on him.

    Labour's leader referred to McFadden's words on terror when the men spoke on the phone last night, he said.

    McFadden told Today: "He clearly interpreted that as an attack on him so you'd have to ask what is the difference between my view and his and he'd have to explain to you "

    And he made it clear he had always differed with Corbyn, saying: " I never pretended that I agreed that I agreed with Mr Corbyn on everything else and it's not a surprise that I didn't."

    On BBC Breakfast the shadow chancellor John McDonnell said McFadden would have a major contribution to make in the future.

  5. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell on reason for McFadden sackingpublished at 07:35

    Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has been talking about reshuffle on BBC Breakfast:

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  6. Sacked Europe minister on Todaypublished at 07:30

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    Pat McFadden, who along with Michael Dugher was one of two Jeremy Corbyn frontbenchers sacked for what appears to be disloyalty, has been on Today:

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  7. Shadow cabinet gender dividepublished at 01:25

    There are 17 women and 14 men in the new shadow cabinet

  8. Benn keeps shadow cabinet role despite clashespublished at 01:07

    Hilary Benn and Jeremy CorbynImage source, PA
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    Hilary Benn keeps his job as shadow foreign secretary despite clashing with Mr Corbyn over air strikes in Syria

  9. Labour reshuffle: Thornberry takes over at defencepublished at 00:50

    Emily ThornberryImage source, PA
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    Emily Thornberry - the Islington South MP and shadow employment minister - had been tipped to take over from Maria Eagle

  10. Maria Eagle moved from defence briefpublished at 00:48

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    Maria Eagle, moved from defence, has been seen as blocking Jeremy Corbyn's desire to oppose renewal of the UK's nuclear deterrent.

  11. Labour reshuffle: Hilary Benn stays as shadow foreign secretarypublished at 00:27
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  12. Labour reshuffle: Emma Lewell-Buck promoted to shadow local government ministerpublished at 00:13

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  13. Labour reshuffle: Maria Eagle new shadow culture secretarypublished at 00:10

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  14. Labour reshuffle: Emily Thornberry new shadow defence secretarypublished at 00:04
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  15. Labour reshuffle: Pat Glass appointed new shadow Europe ministerpublished at 23:39 Greenwich Mean Time 5 January 2016

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  16. Labour reshuffle: Shadow Europe minister sackedpublished at 23:33 Greenwich Mean Time 5 January 2016
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    Pat McFadden sacked as shadow Europe minister over "disloyalty" to leader Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party sources say

  17. Labour reshuffle set to enter third day as talks continuepublished at 23:07

    There is no real updates to bring you about the Labour reshuffle with meetings still apparently taking place in the Palace of Westminster. The BBC's Chris Mason is stalking the Commons corridors and we will bring you the latest developments should anything happen. As it stands, the reshuffle is set to enter its third day on Wednesday. Labour will be hoping it will all be done and dusted by midday when Jeremy Corbyn will face David Cameron at PMQs. 

  18. Were ministers on verge of quitting EU?published at 22:12

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  19. Emily Thornberry 'logical choice' for defence jobpublished at 21:55

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  20. What party leaders have in commonpublished at 21:42

    Laura Kuenssberg
    BBC political editor

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    What have David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn got in common? At first glance, really, seriously, not very much. But maybe the two men do share something.

    Whether David Cameron's climbdown on allowing his cabinet ministers to campaign to leave the European Union, or Jeremy Corbyn's (ongoing) chaotic reshuffle, both have been forced to realise they might officially be in charge of their parties, but they still can't get everything they want.

    But while the Labour reshuffle grinds on, the prime minister's admission that he's had to shift, is unquestionably the more significant political decision of the day.

    Read more from Laura