ACTING leader Harriet Harman filled the gaps left in the shadow cabinet yesterday after two of Labour’s big beasts lost their seats last week and Ed Miliband quit.

Ed Balls, who lost Morley & Outwood by 422 votes, was replaced as shadow chancellor by Blairite Chris Leslie, his former Treasury deputy.

Hilary Benn, son of Tony Benn, was appointed shadow foreign secretary after Douglas Alexander was humbled by 20-year-old politics student Mhairi Black. He was one of 39 Labour MPs who lost their seats to the SNP.