Jeremy Corbyn makes first appointments in new shadow cabinet

Andy Burnham becomes shadow home secretary, with Hilary Benn, Heidi Alexander and Lord Falconer also given frontbench rolesJeremy Corbyn has made his first key appointments, asking his leadership rival Andy Burnham to be shadow home secretary and Hilary Benn to stay on as shadow foreign secretary.In an announcement from the Labour party on Sunday night, it was confirmed that Lord Falconer would stay on as shadow justice secretary, while Heidi Alexander would be shadow health secretary. Continue