Labour reshuffle: Keir Starmer’s new team

Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle is finally over. The Labour leader ran into trouble early on when he kicked off the shake up of his frontbench team on Saturday afternoon by sacking his deputy Angela Rayner from her role as party chair. His plan for a wider reshuffle had to be put on hold after his decision to demote Rayner succeeded in uniting MPs on both the left and right of the party in anger. 

Since then, the pair have spent much of the day in talks over a reconciliation. With Starmer eventually finding Rayner a job she would accept as Michael. Gove’s opposite in the role of Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Starmer was able to press on with the rest of the reshuffle. 

For all the rumours of drastic change, the reshuffle is more modest than certain briefings suggested. Despite reports that shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy could be demoted along with shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, both have remained in position. Starmer