Live TV? It’s child’s play as Labour’s Dodds gatecrashed
respond to the coronavirus pandemic and rebuilding Labour so that it can win the next election.’
Mr Miliband’s return comes after he found fresh popularity co-hosting the podcast Reasons To Be Cheerful in the wake of his election defeat.
Ian Murray, who ran for the deputy leadership, returns as shadow Scotland secretary after resigning from the role under Mr Corbyn.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, who also ran for deputy and continues to work as a hospital doctor, is shadow minister for mental health. John Healey becomes shadow defence secretary, having served in education for Mr Corbyn.
But Richard Burgon and Baroness Chakrabarti, who were prominent allies of Mr Corbyn, no longer have a frontbench role.
Former shadow justice secretary Mr Burgon tweeted: ‘As I’ve done since joining the party in the mid-1990s, I’ll continue to give my all to get a Labour government.’
Sir Keir was named leader on Saturday after securing 56 per cent of the 490,731 votes cast. Angela Rayner won the race to be deputy
leader.
LABOUR’S new shadow chancellor handled her first big test on TV when her three-year-old daughter burst into the room during a live interview.
Anneliese Dodds was interrupted by little Isabella as she discussed the coronavirus crisis by video link from the family home in Oxford.
It could have been a tense moment for the mum-of-two, appointed by newly elected party leader Sir Keir Starmer. But she smiled and kept talking on Sky News. At the end of the Q& A, presenter Kay Burley mentioned Isabella’s cameo and Ms Dodds said: ‘I thought she was going to stay asleep, sorry... so embarrassing. She’s thankfully under the chair now.’
The Oxford East MP, who took her daughter along to the European parliament while an MEP in 2016, said she wanted to work with chancellor Rishi Sunak to improve emergency economic measures in place.