Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me, Alan Tolst.

This week, as MPs have returned to Westminster after the summer recess, we're looking ahead

to a crucial autumn for this government, packed full of potential pitfalls as they hope year two in office

is an upgrade from a tricky first 12 months.

But after a clunky internal Downing Street reset and distracting revelations about Angela Rainer's tax affairs,

things have not got off to the best start.

With a high-risk Donald Trump visit, party conference season, the ongoing small boats crisis, and Rachel Reeve's sophomore budget to deliver, things don't get any easier for Kirstama and his team in the coming weeks. With me to discuss how Labour navigates its way through all of this,

I'm delighted to be joined by two of the party's MPs, Antonia Bance, the member for Tipton and

Wensbury, and Jess Asato, the MP for Loewstoft. Alongside them we have Chris Hopkins,

political research director at the pollster Savanta, along with my colleague

Adam Payne, editor of Politics Home.

So Adam, starting with you, just talk us through kind of the reset that begun this week.

We saw Keir Stama talking about.

We're now into sort of phase two of the government, as he described it.

Yeah, so I'll get on to, I guess, what I'd describe as the tonal element of it in a moment.

But in terms of sort of the nuts and bolts of number 10, we've had some pretty major alterations, really.

We've had a new economics advisor announced to bolster Kea Starrmer's,

I guess, economic operation, particularly with the budget coming up. There's a new senior comms

individual who's come in, Tim Allen. People, if they've heard his name, we'll probably have heard

it in the context of the Blair government. He also founded Portland.

I guess the headline appointment, Alain, was Darren Jones, coming in as chief secretary to the prime minister,

tasked with delivery across the government's sort of headline policies.

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