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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, and I'm back on the roof of Parliament with James Forsyth.

And there has been a mini reshuffle today.

James, bring us up to speed with all the appointments.

So the big news is that Christy Harris has become the new Chief Whip.

The existing Chief Whip, Mark Spencer, has moved to be leader of a House, and Jacob Rees-Mogg,

who was leader of the House, has moved to be Minister for Brexit opportunities.

Now, this mini-resuff is quite telling, in that it isn't focused on the departments that are in charge of delivering things to the public.

It's focused on those in Cabinet who are responsible for dealing with their fellow parliamentarians,

which I think tells you where Boris Johnson thinks the problem is.

So there's a new chief whip, there's a new leader of a house. I also think it is quite telling that

Boris Johnson has managed to conduct a reshuffle without sacking anybody. Now, that is, I think,

quite a sensible move on his behalf, because as one cabinet minister said to me yesterday, the problem

is that reshuffles always make more enemies than friends,

and in the current circumstances, enemies become signatories to letters. Now, if you don't

sack anyone, you tend not to make enemies in a reshuffle. So I think we can see the political

dynamic playing out there. But I have to say that as reshuffles go, this is, I think, one of, if not the

most limited I've seen, which involves more than just kind of one person has gone off to be

a European commissioner in the old days and someone else has come in to replace them kind of

thing. The shadow whipping operation around Johnson had been very keen on two things. They have been very keen on a shakeup of Downing Street and a shakeup

of the Whips office. They have got that and there's also a new Deputy Chief Whip coming in as well.

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