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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by the spectators Katie Halls

and former Labour adviser John McTernan.

Now today, Kirstama has been reshuffling his top team on the Labour front bench.

Katie, what are the main takeaways from today?

So I think as was broadly expected, the five missions, so ultimately not as catchy as the five priorities,

but the five missions for a Labour government that Kirstama set up.

The shadow cabinet members who have briefs that correspond with that have not been moved.

So despite some excited talk a few months ago of,

Ed Miliband could be in trouble.

You know, is Kirstama after Uxbridge,

even though this is a separate issue, of course,

to some of these net zero energy goals,

going to, you know, change the brief that Ed Miliband has, that has not happened.

And instead, probably the most, you know, headline change as Angela Rainer,

who has gone from having multiple job titles.

But we think back to 2021 when was the Labour reach of the winner, wrong for Kirstama,

because he stripped Angela Rainer of her chairman role.

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