Trouble for Jeremy Corbyn as frontbencher Kevan Jones quits

The latest Labour frontbencher to quit over Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘revenge reshuffle’ has accused the party leadership of dishonesty and warned that voters would be dismayed by the changes.

Kevan Jones claimed his former boss Maria Eagle, a supporter of Trident, had been moved from the defence brief against her will despite briefings that taking on the shadow culture secretary role was her “dream”.

The former shadow defence spokesman said there had been “nothing straightforward or honest” about the way the reshuffle had been carried out and claimed Labour was being run in a “very top-down” manner.