Sputnik.png Newly-Elected Labour Party Leader Announces Main Shadow Secretaries Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn names top leadership Sputnik, Moscow, from London, 14 September 2015 On Sunday, Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of the UK Labour party, started to announce main shadow secretaries. Hilary Benn has been appointed as the UK shadow foreign secretary. Benn has served as the shadow secretary for environment, the shadow secretary of state for communities and local government, and the shadow leader of the House of Commons. Andy Burnham has been appointed as the UK shadow home secretary. Burnham has previously served as the shadow health secretary. Former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Corbyn's rival in the Labour Party leadership race, decided to quit the Shadow Cabinet shortly after Corbyn's victory. Corbyn has appointed the former shadow secretary of state for defence, Vernon Coaker, as the shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Discussions on resolving the crisis within the Northern Ireland Assembly are expected to resume this week. Coaker is due to discuss the situation in the region with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers. Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Member of Parliament John McDonnell as the shadow chancellor of the exchequer. From: <http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150914/1026951750.html> http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150914/1026951750.html (with pictures) -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
