Jeremy Corbyn pleas for unity fails as Labour frontbenchers sign off

Jeremy Corbyn will spend his first full day as Labour leader trying to hold together a fracturing parliamentary party after his stunning victory in which he won nearly 60 per cent of the vote in the first round. The result, just before midday, triggered a string of Shadow Cabinet and frontbench resignations, despite Mr Corbyn’s appeal for unity and his pledge to field a top team from all quarters of the party.