Corbyn reshuffle: Owen Smith joins shadow cabinet

Former Labour leadership rival becomes shadow Northern Ireland secretary in one of four new appointments as most frontbenchers retain jobsJeremy Corbyn has appointed Owen Smith, his rival in last summer’s bitter leadership contest, to be the shadow Northern Ireland secretary in a light-touch Labour reshuffle that left key loyalists in place.Smith, who was an adviser to the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, in the last Labour government, challenged Corbyn after the mass walkout from