Corbyn urges critics to respect his 'huge mandate'

New UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has appealed to critics to respect his "huge mandate" as Labour leader as he sought to assemble a shadow cabinet that could accept his radical left-wing programme.

Details of the top new-look top team are expected to be revealed over the next 48 hours, as Ed Miliband's successor gears up for his first appearance before the Parliamentary Labour Party in the Commons tomorrow.

The scale of the veteran MP's victory among party members as well as trade unionists and new-found supporters has quietened talk of a push by disgruntled moderates to oust him.

But the resignations of a string of senior figures who declared themselves unable to serve in his top team underlined the task he faced uniting the party behind his anti-war, anti-austerity platform.

John Woodcock, who chairs the Blairite Progress group, warned colleagues against "a fresh round of division and resentment between MPs who choose to be 'innies' and those who are 'outies'".

He added: "If we are to move on from here we must recognise how damaging it has been for Labour people - who have all basically wanted the same thing - to have knocked lumps out of each other for 20 years."

Mr Corbyn...