LABOUR’S shadow youth minister Cat Smith resigned today amid a reshuffle, describing as unsustainable the party leadership’s refusal to readmit Jeremy Corbyn to the parliamentary party.

The Lancaster and Fleetwood MP, who has spent six years in the shadow cabinet, wrote to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with a number of concerns about the damage being done to the party, and urged him to restore the whip to his predecessor. 

Ms Smith thanked Sir Keir for asking her to stay on but said that the strength of feeling on this issue from Labour members should not be underestimated.