She was briefly informed that a shake-up was under way but not consulted (though Jeremy Corbyn certainly didn’t consult his deputy, Tom Watson, on the makeup of his shadow team either). Starmer’s aides saw it as completing the work begun in May’s botched overhaul, which saw Anneliese Dodds replaced by Rachel Reeves as shadow chancellor but was derailed by Angela Rayner, who resisted a move for herself.Ĭhanges for both Jon Ashworth and Lisa Nandy were mooted at the time, and have now been acted on.Īnd this time around, Starmer publicly asserted his authority over Rayner – with whom relations have continued to be scratchy – by kicking off the reshuffle as she was delivering a major speech in Westminster on cleaning up public life. “Reshuffle” seemed an understatement, given the radical scope of the shake-up Keir Starmer carried out among Labour’s top ranks on Monday, with few posts left untouched.
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