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WOMEN make up the majority of Labour’s front bench for the first time in the party’s history after Jeremy Corbyn unveiled his shadow cabinet yesterday.
Labour’s top team now includes 16 women and 15 men, including Angela Eagle, who becomes shadow first secretary of state.
The role will see her take on Chancellor George Osborne at Prime Minister’s Questions when David Cameron is away.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
