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Sarah Champion has unresigned and been reinstated as a Shadow Home Office Minister.

Ms Champion, who was one of dozens of Labour frontbenchers who quit in protest at Jeremy Corbyn 's leadership last month, formally retracted her resignation in an email on Thursday.

It reads: "I would like to formally retract my resignation and ask to be reinstated to my role as Shadow Home Office minister for preventing abuse and domestic violence with immediate effect."

A spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn confirmed her retraction had been accepted and she had been reinstated.

They added: “The Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Champion MP, who is re-joining the Labour’s front bench as Shadow Home Office Minister, focusing on women, equality and domestic violence.

The spokesperson went on to suggest this could be more than one unresignation - perhaps growing into a deshuffle.

They said: "We hope that others will rejoin the shadow cabinet and get on with the job of opposing Government."

In an unusual choice of metaphor, one source close to the leader's office likened the resigning frontbenchers to striking miners - which seemed to paint Jeremy Corbyn in the role of Margaret Thatcher.

They are reported to have said: "You saw what happened when the first miners went back to work, so let’s see what happens.”

Ms Champion emailed Mr Corbyn's office to unresign on Thursday. The leader's office replied to accept her unresignation the following day, but did not make the announcement until today.

A spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn said it "took a while to feed through to the media team."

They added: "We also wanted to talk to her and make sure she had received our correspondence."

Her role had not been given to anyone else in the interim.

The Rotherham MP resigned on June 28th, saying: "I have just stepped down from my shadow minister job, but not my responsibilities to my constituents, party or victims of abuse."

After resigning, she tweeted to say she was not siding with anyone in the dispute over the Labour leadership, but said she believed "Jeremy's leadership is now untenable and we need a Labour Party that can fight Tories."

The Mirror has approached Ms Champion's office for more information, but they had not responded at the time of publication.