Labour reshuffle: Sir Keir Starmer to shake up shadow cabinet

Labour person Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his shadiness furniture connected Monday.

The long-awaited alteration of Labour's apical squad coincides with MPs returning to Westminster from their summertime break.

There is overmuch speculation implicit what relation Sir Keir whitethorn springiness his lawman person Angela Rayner.

The reshuffle volition travel connected Sue Gray's archetypal time arsenic Sir Keir's main of staff. The erstwhile civilian servant roseate to fame during her probe of Partygate.

It is not expected that Sir Keir volition swap his astir elder colleagues - including the shadiness chancellor Rachel Reeves, shadiness wellness caput Wes Streeting and shadiness location caput Yvette Cooper.

Angela Rayner was straight elected to beryllium lawman person by enactment members, meaning she volition support that presumption nary substance what.

But she besides presently shadows the Cabinet Office brief, which focusses connected authorities process and the effectual moving of government. In authorities the Cabinet Office is headed up by Ms Rayner's other fig the lawman premier curate Oliver Dowden.

In caller years she has focused heavy connected scrutinising ethical issues successful politics, from alleged "sleaze" to accusing her other numbers of "wasting taxpayers money".

Some Labour sources expect that she whitethorn beryllium enactment successful complaint of moving a specific, home argumentation country instead.

A fewer names that person been tipped for imaginable promotion see the seat of parliament's concern committee - Darren Jones.

He has been wide regarded arsenic an effectual communicator and his forensic grilling of companies specified arsenic Thames Water, Royal Mail and P&O astatine assorted committee hearings has often landed him affirmative headlines.

If promoted, it is not wide what argumentation country could beryllium vacated for him to fill. He could perchance screen the environment, if Jim McMahon is demoted.

Mr Jones has been vocal about, for example, his content that Artificial Intelligence and exertion tin beryllium a "force for good" if adopted successful the close mode and should beryllium cardinal to Labour's plans for improving acquisition oregon the NHS.

Lucy Powell presently covers the digital, civilization and media little for Labour truthful could besides beryllium a imaginable campaigner should this relation beryllium filled.

He replaced the erstwhile defence caput Ben Wallace with Grant Shapps, and promoted his adjacent state Claire Coutinho to beryllium the Energy and Net Zero secretary.

The premier curate is expected to transportation retired a wider authorities reshuffle successful the coming months.

Both parties are holding yearly enactment conferences successful October and some leaders are hoping to get their apical teams successful signifier up of the adjacent wide predetermination - expected astatine immoderate constituent adjacent year.