Pity the poor correspondents who set up a reshuffle ‘live’ blog to cover Jeremy Corbyn moving around his frontbench team last Monday. The Labour leader has, a week and a half in to the slowest shuffle ever, just made a few more appointments. Imran Hussain, Kate Osamor and Thangam Debbonaire are all new MPs, and join the International Development, Women and Equalities and Culture, Media and Sport teams respectively. Last night Jo Stevens, also a new MP, became Shadow Solicitor General.
When will it end? To be fair to the Labour leader, the reshuffle has dragged on partly because people keep resigning, so it’s not entirely his fault that he seems to be taking until 2020 to finalise his top team. And this has led some to wonder whether there are co-ordinated waves of resignations from junior ministers designed to keep Corbyn from ever fully settling down into his job as Opposition Leader, instead forcing him to work out who on earth he can appoint to a junior ministerial brief that has suddenly become vacant.
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