Breaking: Labour MPs split over shadow cabinet elections

Divisions over appointments and women ++ MPs vote on rules tomorrow ++ elections to take place at party conference

A row has broken out within the Parliamentary Labour Party [PLP:] over how it chooses its shadow cabinet once a new leader is in place at the annual party conference later this month. Labour MPs gathered for a private discussion of the rules for shadow cabinet elections in Committee room 14 of the House of Commons at lunch time today. The former foreign secretary Margaret...