And she dismissed the fact Mr Corbyn has scores of empty frontbench roles - with people having to do two
shadow cabinet jobs at once - after 64 members of his top team resigned.
Not exact matches
Although the motivation behind the move is not directly linked to what many critics have called his poor performance in the
job, many Labour figures were admitting relief
at the shakeup in Ed Miliband's
shadow Cabinet.
«It may just be my imagination» one
shadow cabinet minister confided to me «but I was speaking
at a fringe meeting and I had the impression there was a guy
at the back whose
job it was to keep an eye on what I was saying.
Corbyn's
job was to execute the decisions taken by the
shadow cabinet, in the PLP, where over 200 of our MPs backed the remain campaign, by the trade unions, and
at annual conference, which voted to back the remain position.
Out of the
shadow cabinet's heavy hitters, Andy Burnham is untouchable
at health, Chuka Umunna is seen as having done a good
job maintaining Labour's strained links with business, and any lateral move for Yvette Cooper would have been viewed as a demotion, enraging Ed Balls and his supporters.