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Electoral Dysfunction

Rayner resigns and Starmer resets (again)

Electoral Dysfunction

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.4764 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Beth, Harriet and Ruth reassemble after Angela Rayner’s resignation prompts one of the biggest cabinet reshuffles in years.

She admitted she didn’t pay enough stamp duty on the purchase of a new home and, after an ethics investigation, quit as deputy prime minister and housing secretary.

David Lammy takes the deputy role with a move to justice secretary.

Keir Starmer’s had two resets in a week – can he now get on with his dream of delivery?

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0:00.0

Now time to thank our partner for this episode, Amazon. Schools might be back, but the summer

0:06.2

holidays are still a fresh memory. How were they for you? If you're working parent, it can be a

0:12.6

tricky time, organising clubs and care, and maybe only squeezing in a small amount of time

0:18.3

together when you really want to be spending more time with your kids.

0:22.6

That's why Amazon now offers term time working for their employees.

0:27.6

As a parent, if you take a job with Amazon here in the UK,

0:31.6

you can apply for term time working, which guarantees 10 weeks off every year through a mix of paid and unpaid leave.

0:40.9

So by next year's summer holiday, you could be free from the stress of juggling work and childcare and

0:47.4

holiday clubs and instead you could be enjoying the break with your children making memories.

0:53.6

To learn more about Amazon's help working parents, such Amazon term time contracts.

1:07.9

Hello and welcome to Electoral Disfunction from Sky News with me, Beth Rigby.

1:12.4

Me Ruth Davidson and me, Harriet Harmon.

1:14.9

Should we take a breath here? I've literally just hot-footed it back from Downing Street.

1:19.4

I did not expect to see you to so quickly. We only saw each other yesterday morning and now the whole political world has changed. I was meant

1:28.3

to be in Birmingham for Reforms Conference. I actually went up last night, came back this morning

1:33.5

into Westminster because of the news. Should we get straight to it because Angela Raina resigned

1:39.6

and there has been the mother of all cabinet reshuffles, which I was not expecting.

1:48.2

It's really a political earthquake, isn't it? And I think that, you know, although we're all

1:53.6

looking to the future now with all talking about these new cabinet ministers and we're looking

1:58.5

at reforms conference, God help us. I think it's just worth

2:03.2

reflecting for a moment that Angela Raina was a huge figure leading up to getting labour into

2:09.3

government, doing many things in her role, renter's rights, employment rights, planning laws.

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