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Hello and welcome to Coffee House of Shots, the Spectators Daily and sometimes more than daily podcast.

I'm John Connolly and I'm joined today by Siena Rogers, the editor of Labor List, and our own Katie Balls, Deputy Political Editor of The Spectator.

Now they're joining me today for a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

We'll be discussing all things Labor and what's been going on this week.

Now, there's been quite a lot of movement, especially around the top of Labor at the moment,

in the leader's office, and it was sort of announced or revealed that Corbyn's long time,

chief of staff, is very loyal to him, has been moved out of the leader's office to work on

elections.

Now, what do you think is happening here? What's

going on behind the scenes? Who's benefiting from this move, do you think? So Carrie Murphy, as you

said, is retaining her job title. So in order to smooth over this transition, all three of the

staffers are retaining their job titles. So chief of staff, but as well, Amy Jackson, his political

director, Jeremy's, and also

Joe Bradley, who acts as a liaison between trade unions and the Labour Party. So they're all

going to work from Southside from now on, so Labor HQ rather than Lotto at the parliamentary office.

And of course, the labour line was, this is, you know, this is a coup because Carrie Murphy

worked on election prep last time from Southside. This is totally normal and also something,

you know, to be celebrated. But of course, there are lots of suspicions that actually this

is a manifestation of the tensions that we've seen within Lotto.

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