Hull MP promoted after latest Labour resignation

In a letter to Mr Corbyn, former employment solicitor Ms McKinnell, who represents Newcastle North, told him she had “shared your optimism for the ‘new kind of politics’ you spoke so compellingly about”.

“However, as events have unfolded over recent weeks, my concerns about the direction and internal conflict within the Labour Party have only grown and I fear this is taking us down an increasingly negative path.”

Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff also stood down from her role as an aide to Shadow Local Government Secretary John Trickett.

On Twitter, Ms Sherriff said she had stepped down “to focus on my campaign to defend Dewsbury & District from Tory cuts” and her work on the Health Select Committee.

Ms Sherriff’s victory over sitting Conservative MP Simon Reevell was one of the few high spots for Labour at the General Election last May.

Mr Turner, a barrister before becoming the MP for Hull East in 2010, was previously Shadow Solicitor General.

The latest resignations effectively extended the reshuffle of Labour’s front bench into an eighth day.

Three shadow ministers quit last week as Mr Corbyn removed Barnsley East MP Michael Dugher from his role as Shadow Culture Secretary and Pat McFadden from the post of Shadow Europe Minister.

Mr Corbyn is to avoid a potentially hostile ride at the hands of angry MPs tonight by defying recent convention and not addressing the first meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party after a Commons recess.

A spokesman said the leader would not speak as the meeting - which has been the forum for severe criticism of his leadership - would be centred on the issue of floods and so shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy would take the lead.