Dodds demoted as Sir Keir Starmer wields axe in Labour shadow cabinet reshuffle | Politics News

Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer has revamped his frontbench crew in the wake of dismal election outcomes.

Anneliese Dodds has been sacked as shadow chancellor and can develop into social gathering chair.

Changing her as Rishi Sunak’s reverse quantity is former economist Rachel Reeves who stated she was “honoured”.

Angela Rayner, who was sacked on Saturday as social gathering chair and marketing campaign co-ordinator in a transfer that went down badly in Labour ranks, was appointed shadow first secretary of state and shadow secretary of state for the way forward for work.

She was additionally given the title of shadow chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster, the equal of deputy prime minister in Sir Keir’s new crew, and can shadow Michael Gove, as effectively as retain management over social gathering issues, forward of Ms Dodds.

On Twitter, she stated she would “work tirelessly to reform our social gathering” in order to “present that the Labour Occasion speaks for the working class”.

Of Ms Rayner’s transfer, Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates stated: “That is the one who 24 hours in the past was faraway from the job as social gathering chairman, kicking off an unlimited briefing battle, with individuals saying that as one of many working-class girls round Sir Keir Starmer, she was being punished and scapegoated for the poor election outcomes.”

Chief whip Nick Brown has been sacked and will probably be changed by Alan Campbell.

A spokesman for Mr Brown stated: “Nick thinks it is a cheap time for Nick to maneuver on. He and Keir have parted on good phrases, with mutual respect.

“He needs Keir and the brand new chief whip each success.”

Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted: “Sacking Nick Brown, one of the crucial skilled and tactically astute chief whips the social gathering has ever had, is inept in the intense.

“This appears like (Lord) Mandelson’s revenge.”

Former Labour chief Mr Corbyn, who’s at the moment suspended from the social gathering, warned that “reshuffles or beauty tweaks” had been unlikely to carry voters again.

Writing in The Impartial, Mr Corbyn stated: “It’s new concepts from throughout our motion – not reshuffles or beauty tweaks – that may carry hope again.”

Wes Streeting has been given a brand new temporary on baby poverty, whereas Lucy Powell will develop into shadow housing secretary.

Saying his reshuffle, Labour chief Sir Keir stated his social gathering wanted to “embrace the demand for change throughout our nation.

“That may require daring concepts and a relentless deal with the priorities of the British individuals.”

He described his new shadow cabinet as a “refreshed and renewed crew” who would “construct the formidable programme that may ship the subsequent Labour authorities”.

Nevertheless, there have been some faces who remained. Jonathan Ashworth stays on as shadow well being secretary and Lisa Nandy stays shadow international secretary.

Different notable appointments:

• Nick Thomas-Symonds – shadow dwelling secretary

• David Lammy – shadow justice secretary

• John Healey – shadow defence secretary

• Ed Miliband – shadow enterprise, power and industrial technique secretary

• Jonathan Reynolds – shadow work and pensions secretary

• Emily Thornberry – shadow worldwide commerce secretary

• Kate Inexperienced – shadow schooling secretary

• Jo Stevens – shadow secretary of state for digital, tradition, media and sport

• Luke Pollard – shadow secretary of state for setting, meals and rural affairs

Has Angela Rayner been promoted or is her new function a sideways transfer?

Evaluation by Tom Rayner, digital politics editor

Twenty 4 hours in the past the reviews had been that Angela Rayner was to be punished for the largely poor election outcomes Labour has simply skilled – having the roles of social gathering chair and marketing campaign co-ordinator stripped from her.

It was billed as a sacking, resulting in livid briefing about her being ‘scapegoated’ and questions being raised about whether or not Sir Keir Starmer was making an enormous mistake by in search of to undermine Labour’s elected deputy chief, whose working class roots and background as a care-worker and union official make her a robust and in style determine in the social gathering.

Earlier in the present day the shadow Scotland secretary Ian Murray informed Sky News Angela Rayner was not in reality being sacked, however as a substitute being provided a promotion “from the again workplace of the Labour Occasion, operating elections, to the entrance workplace the place she’s speaking to the nation”.

Her new function as shadow chancellor to the duchy of Lancaster means she will probably be going toe-to-toe with Michael Gove – liable for scrutiny of his work on the cabinet workplace.

Is that this a extra public place? Is it extra high-profile? There are legitimate arguments both means.

What’s extra necessary than whether or not this can be a promotion or a sideways transfer is that Angela Rayner stays in Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet.

The livid responses to the thought she is perhaps sacked, not simply from figures on the Corbynite left like John McDonnell and Diane Abbott, however from individuals like Andy Burnham – the re-elected mayor of Higher Manchester who’s driving excessive after one other landslide victory – meant Sir Keir wanted her to remain in his high crew to keep away from the already poisonous tensions in his social gathering boiling over utterly.

That this reshuffle took as lengthy as it did, introduced hours after the social gathering had supposed, suggests Angela Rayner negotiated exhausting to get what she wished.

We are able to take from that she sees her new function as a promotion, no matter anybody else thinks.