Do reshuffles make any difference?
Not Another One
Richards Green Montgomerie Martin
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As Kemi Badenoch conducts her first extensive reshuffle we explore the degree to which her moves will improve the Tories’ fortunes, or make them worse, with a focus on the role of Robert Jenrick. Plus, is Keir Starmer right not to conduct a cabinet reshuffle after his first year in power? Much agreeable disagreement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin and Miranda Green. |
| 0:18.5 | Miranda isn't with us. She's up a mountain somewhere. She sent us a photo |
| 0:22.8 | of the mountain, but I can't remember which one. It looked very nice. It did look very nice. |
| 0:29.6 | Now, she's so assiduous. She would have come, but she's got no Wi-Fi up a mountain. So, |
| 0:35.1 | we are without her. However, Miranda did come to my live show at Keem's |
| 0:39.9 | place last week. And just before we start, I've got a confession to make to the two of you |
| 0:45.8 | in the studio, because I'm not in the studio. At the end, one of the listeners to rock and roll |
| 0:51.9 | politics and not another one, |
| 0:57.1 | Helen the Baker, came up to me. |
| 1:01.9 | And we've had a bit of a falling out over the inevitable issue of Gaza recently. |
| 1:07.1 | And anyway, Helen the Baker quite often makes lovely cakes for me and things. |
| 1:10.6 | And lots of people emailed saying that she won't be making them anymore. |
| 1:16.3 | Well, at the end of the King's Play Show, she brought a lovely box of homemade biscuits. And it said to Steve Miranda, Ian and Tim, biscuits as promised, keep up the great work, Helen, the baker. |
| 1:25.3 | Now, I'm saying all this because I'm not in the studio. |
| 1:27.1 | Because you've eaten the biscuits. For once, it's me who's going to eat all the baker. Now I'm saying all this because I'm not in the studio. Because you've |
| 1:27.5 | eaten the biscuits. I for once it's me who's going to eat all the biscuits. They're gorgeous |
| 1:32.3 | ones. You know those cookies with little bits of milk and white chocolate. They are fantastic. |
| 1:38.5 | But anyway, it was for all of us. So thank you very much. Where are they now? Are they all in |
| 1:43.8 | your tummy, Steve? |
| 2:04.6 | No, some, I was saving because I didn't know whether or not I'd be able to get into the studio. I can't get into the studio. So some have been eaten and more will be, but I'm afraid I suspect not by the two of you and certainly not. I'm not going to the mountain to give it to Moran. Well, you've missed out on a few of our treats in the past, so perhaps this is justice that you get to get to all the cookies. A rebalancing. So, you know, we are recording as the |
| 2:12.6 | shadow cabinet is being reshuffled by Kemi Biednock, we will look at that and reflect more widely on the |
| 2:21.7 | impact of reshuffles, shadow cabinet reshuffles, cabinet reshuffles, because they cause a kind |
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