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Coffee House Shots

How Keir Starmer's reshuffle backfired

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

After a messy and delayed reshuffle, there is more rancour in the Labour party than there was before the weekend. Has Keir Starmer taken a serious hit to his authority? Isabel Hardman speaks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls about the possible future for Labour. 

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0:00.0

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0:16.5

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

0:20.9

I'm Isabel Harbman and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth.

0:24.8

Well, late last night, Kea Stama finally succeeded is probably not quite the right word,

0:30.3

but finally managed to do something involving moving some of his top team around.

0:35.2

James, what happened?

0:36.3

So we had a dramatic moment on Saturday night when it came out, turned out that

0:40.9

Kiersta Lama had sacked, oh, supposedly sacked, Angela Rina as party chair.

0:44.9

Now, it's important to understand here that because of the way the Labour Party works,

0:49.1

Anderina as deputy leader has her own mandate.

0:52.2

The leader cannot sack the deputy leader from the post of

0:55.2

deputy leader, which has created this, you know, we remember the tension as well between Jeremy

0:59.0

Corbyn and Tom Watson. Now, the Keir Starmer team said, no, no, no, we weren't sacking Angelina.

1:03.6

We were moving her to a different, more public job. We then had all the way until 10pm yesterday

1:09.9

waiting for news of his reshuffle, which when it came

1:12.3

was not that dramatic. And Jorana is going to shadow Michael Gove with an remarkably long job title.

1:18.4

Rachel Reeves takes over from Annalise Dodds as Shadow Chancellor and Annalise Dodds is then put in charge as party chair of developing policy and the like.

1:27.1

Now, I think it was fairly well known

1:29.1

at the time that Kirstein would have liked to have made Rachel Reeves his shadow chance from the

1:33.3

off, but feared the reaction from the left if he had appointed the figure so associated with the

1:38.3

Labour right to do the second biggest job in the in the shadow cabinet. But I think this and the fact

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