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Chuka Umunna leaves Labour shadow cabinet over 'differences' | Chuka Umunna leaves Labour shadow cabinet over 'differences' |
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Chuka Umunna has left Labour's shadow cabinet by "mutual agreement", citing "key differences on policy" with new leader Jeremy Corbyn. | Chuka Umunna has left Labour's shadow cabinet by "mutual agreement", citing "key differences on policy" with new leader Jeremy Corbyn. |
Mr Umunna said in a statement he could not see himself campaigning to leave the European Union but Mr Corbyn "made it clear... he does not wholeheartedly share this view". | |
Mr Corbyn is currently finalising his first shadow cabinet. | |
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has urged MPs to back Mr Corbyn. | |
But Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall, Tristram Hunt, Rachel Reeves, Chris Leslie, Jamie Reed, Emma Reynolds and Shabana Mahmood have already said they will not serve in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet. | |
'Dishonest to deny' | |
Mr Umunna described leaving the shadow cabinet as one of the most difficult "personal political decisions" he has had to make. | Mr Umunna described leaving the shadow cabinet as one of the most difficult "personal political decisions" he has had to make. |
"Whilst there is much on which Jeremy and I agree, there are a number of key points of difference on policy which I believe it would be dishonest to deny exist," he said. | |
He said he would "find it difficult to abide by the collective responsibility" of being in the shadow cabinet - "not least on the European referendum". | |
Mr Corbyn has said he is not content with the EU as it stands, but wants to stay to fight for a "better Europe". He had previously refused to rule out campaigning to leave. | |
Mr Umunna added: "It is my view that we should support the UK remaining a member of the EU, notwithstanding the outcome of any renegotiation by the prime minister, and I cannot envisage any circumstances where I would be campaigning alongside those who would argue for us to leave - Jeremy has made it clear to me that he does not wholeheartedly share this view." | |
In other developments: | In other developments: |
Few MPs backed Mr Corbyn in the leadership contest - which he won with 59% of the vote - but his deputy Mr Watson told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show there was "zero chance of a coup". | |
He did however conceded that he had differences with Mr Corbyn over the leader's desire to scrap the Trident nuclear deterrent and take the UK out of Nato. | |
But he said his message for those refusing to serve in the shadow cabinet was "there's always someone else that can do a front bench job". |