Luciana Berger has resigned from her role in the Labour shadow cabinet, as the frontbench revolt against Jeremy Corbyn continues.

Ms Berger had been Shadow Minister for Mental Health but joined the more than 20 Labour figures to quit following the EU Referendum result.

In her resignation letter to Mr Corbyn, she wrote that Labour needed a leader “who can unite our party, both in Parliament and in the country.

“I have always served the Labour Party and our leader with loyalty. Having listened closely to local party members, loyalty to the party must come first.”

I have spoken to Jeremy today and it is with great sadness that I have stood down from his Shadow Cabinet. pic.twitter.com/YRYiu7HRd0

— Luciana Berger (@lucianaberger) June 27, 2016

Ms Berger was the most senior Jewish figure in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.

She met the party leader earlier today as his frontbench team unravelled. Ms Berger said the result of the referendum had "utterly changed the political situation. As a nation we now face a crisis as great as the financial crisis of 2007, and a task as monumental as the reconstruction of 1945". A former director of Labour Friends of Israel, Ms Berger intends to compete to be the Labour candidate for next year's Liverpool mayoral contest.