{"id":142682,"date":"2023-09-05T02:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=142682"},"modified":"2023-09-05T02:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:38:35","slug":"jason-groves-how-starmer-reshuffle-shows-he-has-will-to-win-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/world-news\/jason-groves-how-starmer-reshuffle-shows-he-has-will-to-win-election\/","title":{"rendered":"JASON GROVES: How Starmer reshuffle shows he has will to win election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How a low-key reshuffle shows Sir Keir Starmer is deadly serious about the next election: The Labour leader has few definable principles, but is finally showing he has a genuine will to win, writes JASON GROVES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more: Keir Starmer placates Angela Rayner with shadow deputy PM title<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s low-key reshuffle shows the Labour\u00a0leader is deadly serious about winning the next general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While shadow cabinet big beasts such as\u00a0Yvette Cooper\u00a0and David Lammy stayed put, Sir Keir took the chance to promote a string of lesser known, battle-hardened pragmatists to key roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A striking number of those moving up are outspoken Blairites who were pushed to the margins during the Corbyn years, but are now coming in from the cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most are not household names outside their own households but they will have a big role in shaping Labour\u2019s approach to the next election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pat McFadden, who served as Sir\u00a0Tony Blair\u2019s canny political secretary in No10 and is still in regular contact with the former PM, has been put in charge of running Labour\u2019s election campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/00\/75057877-12480495-image-a-40_1693868591850.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir may have few definable principles, but he has demonstrated again that he has a genuine will to win<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Benn, who served in Sir Tony\u2019s Cabinet, is back on the front bench for the first time in years. Best known as the son of Left-wing firebrand Tony Benn, he is nevertheless on the Labour Right, telling anyone who will listen: \u2018I\u2019m a Benn, not a Bennite.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And a string of other prominent Blairites have won promotions, including former leadership contender Liz Kendall, former campaigns co-ordinator Shabana Mahmood and Sir Keir\u2019s friend Peter Kyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years after he left office, it seems the Labour leadership has come round to loving Blair again \u2013 or at least loving his knack for winning elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Labour leader was under pressure yesterday to come clean about how he will fund his programme in office after ruling out a rise in the basic rate of income tax.\u00a0He tried to defuse concerns about Labour\u2019s high-tax reputation by insisting: \u2018We\u2019re not increasing tax across the board.\u2019 Sir Keir added in the Daily Mirror: \u2018We will do nothing to increase the burden on working people\u2019. Tory sources say his tax pledges were \u2018not credible\u2019 given Labour\u2019s spending pledges.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0SNP MP David Linden described the shake up as \u2018Blairism on steroids\u2019, joking: \u2018At this rate, I\u2019ll be surprised if we are not invading Iraq\u00a0by tea time.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some shadow cabinet members had urged Sir Keir to finish the job by also sacking Ed Miliband, who defined himself against Sir Tony. But Sir Keir has a blind spot about the former leader and has left him in place \u2013 for now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blairite takeover is a far cry from Sir Keir\u2019s pitch for the Labour leadership, when he painted himself as a Left-wing successor to\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn\u00a0He had vowed there would be \u2018no more illegal wars\u2019, pledged to tax the rich, nationalise utilities and scrap university tuition fees \u2013 promises which have all been ditched.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir Tony\u2019s battered reputation is not the only winner from yesterday\u2019s changes. The reshuffle suggests Sir Keir has also buried the hatchet for now with his troublesome deputy\u00a0Angela Rayner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a botched reshuffle two years ago, Sir Keir tried to demote Ms Rayner, only to end up promoting her to an even bigger role following a backlash from her allies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time, he squared the pitch with her first and pandered to her substantial ego by promising that she will serve as deputy prime minister if Labour win next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shift to the levelling up brief means she will spend a lot of time campaigning in Red Wall seats where Labour strategists believe her crude but effective style will play well. \u2018It\u2019s about putting round pegs in round holes,\u2019 said one Labour source diplomatically.<\/p>\n<p>And in a sop to the unions, Sir Keir also agreed that Ms Rayner will keep control of Labour\u2019s employment rights agenda, which includes strengthening union recognition and the right to strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/00\/75057875-12480495-image-a-41_1693868597651.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s reshuffle will make few ripples with the public in the short term. But Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore it<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir gave a further indication of his ruthless streak yesterday when he ruled out raising income tax if Labour win.\u00a0Labour sources insisted that there is \u2018nothing in our plans that requires us to raise taxes\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to square this with the lavish promises made by some frontbenchers and the policy of spending an extra \u00a328billion a year on green initiatives, but Sir Keir is hoping the public will not notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s reshuffle will make few ripples with the public in the short term. But\u00a0Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore it.\u00a0Sir Keir may have few definable principles, but he has demonstrated again that he has a genuine will to win.<\/p>\n<h2>The Blairites are back in Starmer reshuffle\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer signalled a Labour shift to the Right today as he appointed a string of Blairites to his top team.<\/p>\n<p>In a major shake-up of the shadow cabinet, the Leader of the Opposition gave prominent roles to a number of admirers of the ex-prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir brutally demoted former leadership rival Lisa Nandy and shifted his troublesome deputy Angela Rayner sideways.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Left-winger Rosena Allin-Khan quit, complaining her mental health brief had been demoted.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Sir Keir\u2019s most senior colleagues kept their jobs, with shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband all staying put.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/00\/75057879-12480495-image-a-42_1693868616359.jpg\" height=\"386\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir brutally demoted former leadership rival Lisa Nandy and shifted his troublesome deputy Angela Rayner sideways<\/p>\n<p>But the long-awaited reshuffle was dominated by the promotion of those known to be close to Sir Tony Blair.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Voters now see Labour as the &#8216;low-tax party for families&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Pat McFadden, Sir Tony\u2019s political secretary in Downing Street, was appointed as Labour\u2019s national campaign co-ordinator, to work with Sir Keir on running the party\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Kendall, another prominent figure on the Labour Right, was promoted to shadow work and pensions secretary, where she has been tasked with producing proposals for reform.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kendall stood for the party leadership in 2015 when she lost to Jeremy Corbyn, getting just 4.5 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kyle, another admirer of Sir Tony, was shifted to shadow secretary of state for science, innovation and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Former minister Hilary Benn, who served in Sir Tony\u2019s Cabinet, was brought in from the backbenches to shadow the Northern Ireland brief.<\/p>\n<p>Former campaigns chief Shabana Mahmood, another figure on the Right of the party, was rewarded for her work in the local elections with a promotion to shadow justice secretary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/00\/75058013-12480495-image-a-43_1693868682214.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Nandy has been appointed shadow cabinet minister for international development as part of Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s reshuffle of his top team<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir said the reshuffle meant Labour had \u2018the strongest possible players on the pitch for what is going to be a crucial part of the journey\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>After cooling off, Gray starts Labour job\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Former Partygate inquisitor Sue Gray started work as Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff yesterday and posed in her office in the Houses of Parliament for photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Gray triggered a furious reaction from the Government and the civil service earlier this year when she defected to Labour.<\/p>\n<p>But an official body cleared her to take the job after a six-month cooling-off period, despite claims that she broke civil service rules by secretly discussing the role with Labour while still in government.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to draw up plans for reform of the civil service to help Labour push through its programme if the party gets into Downing Street next year, and was reportedly instrumental in Sir Keir\u2019s Shadow Cabinet reshuffle yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Labour sources acknowledged its Blairite nature, saying Sir Keir wanted \u2018the right team for the job\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But Harriet Harman rejected the idea that he has moved to the Right.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour MP told the BBC\u2019s World at One: \u2018I don\u2019t accept that. I think that if you look at the mission statement that Keir Starmer has set out, that is a very progressive, radical and hopeful agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018All Leaders of the Opposition have to build [and] mould the policy and the organisation of the party. That\u2019s exactly what Keir Starmer has done.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So I don\u2019t see it at all as a swerve from one side of the party to another or a watering down of aspiration for the Government.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another big winner was Ms Rayner, who was confirmed as shadow deputy prime minister despite her sometimes difficult relationship with Sir Keir.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir had not previously confirmed she would be made deputy prime minister if Labour win power.<\/p>\n<p>She also takes over from Ms Nandy as shadow levelling up secretary.<\/p>\n<p>But in an unusual move, she will retain responsibility for Labour policy on the \u2018future of work\u2019 \u2013 a demand of trade union bosses who have welcomed her plans to make it easier for employees to strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Labour source said: \u2018Keir is delighted that Angela has accepted this important role.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12480495\/JASON-GROVES-low-key-reshuffle-shows-Sir-Keir-Starmer-deadly-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a low-key reshuffle shows Sir Keir Starmer is deadly serious about the next election: The Labour leader has few definable principles, but is finally&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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