Can Keir Starmer risk a reshuffle?
Electoral Dysfunction
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
If Labour's election losses are as bad as some experts predict, Keir Starmer might need a cabinet reshuffle to try to show some strength of leadership.
Beth Rigby, Harriet Harman and Ruth Davidson discuss the risks of that and why it might be counter-productive for the PM.
Plus, pollster Luke Tryl from More in Common returns to chat about the Senedd elections in Wales – why has the voting system changed and why do so few voters seem to understand it?
For a list of all candidates standing in your area, visit the Electoral Commission website.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:09.5 | You've got a number 10 battling to get through each day and you have ill discipline, gossip, chattering and plotting. |
| 0:26.0 | Honestly, Harriet, that was, as tribal goes, that was pretty good. |
| 0:31.1 | People are entitled to have an electoral system that they can actually understand. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, Anne. that they can actually understand. Hello and welcome to Electoral Dysfunction with me, Beth Rigby, |
| 0:45.4 | me Harriet Harmon and me Ruth Davidson. |
| 0:47.9 | And it's safe to say it's been a marathon week. |
| 0:51.3 | Do you see what I did there? |
| 0:52.8 | For both me and the Prime Minister, I'm not sure |
| 0:57.1 | who's soarer at the moment, who's endured a more set of bruising moments, whose toenails are |
| 1:03.7 | falling off or heads falling off, who knows? Because the speculation is can he make it to the finish |
| 1:10.5 | line? Post these mayor elections, I did make it to the finish line? |
| 1:11.5 | Post these mayor elections, I did make it to the finish line. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm delighted. |
| 1:16.0 | In fact, I wanted to bring my medal in today because I only got to wear it on Sunday. |
| 1:21.1 | And then I thought it would be a bit over the top to just wear it all week, |
| 1:24.8 | which is what I want to do. |
| 1:26.6 | And then I thought, I can wear it for the pod. |
| 1:28.7 | You two would allow this. And then I forgot it. I haven't even got my medal. |
| 1:33.4 | Just because you won't tell the listeners this, but I want to tell the listeners this, |
| 1:37.1 | smashed your time, did it in under five hours. I did it in 445. There were a lot of |
| 1:42.8 | dysfunctioners that were either at the marathon or watching the marathon, |
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