Labour's transfer deadline day
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The summer transfer window comes to a close today but, as Parliament also returns from summer recess today, the only team Keir Starmer is focused on is his own in Number Ten. The Prime Minister has decided to reshuffle his advisers, including bringing in Darren Jones MP to Number Ten from the Treasury. Political editor Tim Shipman and James Kirkup, a partner at Apella Advisors and senior fellow at the Social Market Foundation, join economics editor Michael Simmons to go through the moves. Will yet another change in advisers boost Labour's fortunes? Or are they doomed to relegation?
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| 0:46.2 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm Michael Simmons, and today I'm joined by Tim Shipman |
| 0:52.3 | and James Kirkup. |
| 0:57.7 | It's transfer deadline date in the Premier League, but also in Westminster. |
| 1:03.5 | We've had Darren Jones to the cabinet office, James Murray to the Treasury, and Alexander Isaac to Liverpool. |
| 1:05.3 | Now, Tim, is this going to be the reset that Stormer clearly needs? |
| 1:09.2 | Well, as a Liverpool fan, I'm rather more interested in the last part of that equation. |
| 1:13.5 | And changes in number 10 do have a slight whiff as we're in relaunch about eight of this government |
| 1:19.6 | after a year and a bit. |
| 1:20.9 | It feels a bit more like the championship than the Premier League here. |
| 1:25.0 | But in order to not torture this analogy any further, look, we all knew |
| 1:29.8 | there were changes coming in number 10. As I've written before, a lot of people have been in |
| 1:33.8 | Keir Stama's ear saying, you know, your government isn't working and part of the problem is what's |
| 1:39.8 | going on at the centre. So people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and other experienced folk have been |
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