Two North West MPs join Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench as Labour infighting continues

Two North West MPs elected in 2015 have agreed to join the Labour frontbench as Junior Ministers.

Ashton-under-Lyne MP Angela Rayner has taken a position at the Department for Work and Pensions. She tweeted the news this morning and delcared " I will work hard to hold this government to account."

Meanwhile Kate Hollern, the MP for Blackburn, has agreed to take a job at Shadow Defence as armed forces minister. It is unclear whether her views on nuclear weapons are in-line with her leader.

The appointments follows a Labour reshuffle which is now into its fourth day and has seen Stalybridge and Hyde MP Jonathan Reynolds stand down from the frontbench, citing differences of opinion with the leadership.

On Wednesday night he reacted angrily to claims by fellow Labour MP Diane Abbott on Newsnight that he, along other Labour MPs who had resigned from the frontbench, was a 'career politician' who simply wasn't used to Jeremy Corbyn's new style of leadership.

"If you look at Jonathan Reynolds, if you look at Mr [Michael] Dugher, if you look at some of these others, what do they have in common? They are all former special advisers," she said.

""And what you are seeing is people who came up under a certain system. You did politics at university, you became a special adviser, you became an MP, you became a minister, who are rightfully upset, because Jeremy has brought a whole lot of new energy and new people into politics."