Women dominate Labor leader Corbyn's new front bench line-up

Britain's new Labor Party leader Monday completed assembling his opposition Front bench, with women making up more than half of his shadow cabinet.

Some media outlets criticised the 66-years-old shock winner of the weekend leadership race, saying his close front bench allies were all male.

He faced a scathing attacks for naming his close friend, and leadership campaign organiser, John McDonnell as the Opposition's Shadow Chancellor, the man who will face Conservative Chancellor George Osborne across the floor of parliament.

McDonnell is famed as once saying if he could turn back the clock to the 1980s he would assassinate the then Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

As Corbyn put names to the vacancies across Monday, the result demonstrated that female power would rule on his front benches, with 16 of the 31 jobs handed to women.

Among them are twin sisters Angela and Maria Eagle, both MPs in constituencies in the Liverpool area.

Angela, 20 minutes older than her sister, has been made Shadow Business Secretary and she will be joined in the shadow cabinet by Angela Eagle who was given the key role of shadow defense secretary.

Angela Eagle has also been given the task of deputising for Corbyn at Prime Minister's Question time, the weekly televised battle between the government and the main opposition.

Corbyn, who won a fraction under 60 percent of the votes in the race to succeed former leader Ed Miliband, described his front bench team as 'unifying' and a great team that reaches out to the entire Labor Party.

"We have delivered a unifying, dynamic, inclusive new shadow cabinet which for the first time ever has a majority of women."

Despite having a female dominated team behind him, anti-Labor media in Britain continued Corbyn-bashing by saying all of the 'top' jobs had been given to men, even though the lists shows key roles have been handed to women MPs. Corbyn's response was that jobs covering health and education, both held by women, were just as important these days.

Corbyn has been scheduled to make his first major speech Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella body of the union movement representing more than six million workers.

He can expect a rousing reception at that conference in Brighton, but his big test will follow 24 hours later at midday on Wednesday when he faces Prime Minister David Cameron for Prime Minister's Question time.

The battle of words between the two is expected to attract millions of viewers watching Corbyn's debut, live on television. Endit