Will Keir Starmer’s mini-reshuffle of ministers and key aides solve the Prime Minister’s problems? The Prime Minister has moved Darren Jones from the Treasury to the Cabinet Office in a change widely interpreted as an attempt to sideline Rachel Reeves and boost the government’s ability to deliver on its reforms. Jones was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, but his new Chief Secretary role is designed to ‘drive forward progress in key policy areas’.

It is a response to Starmer’s growing frustration that the Whitehall machine isn’t moving fast enough to deliver his reforms. Over the summer there have been more briefings against the new Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald for being insufficiently radical and proactive, and Downing Street spent the tail end of last week trying to hose down a row ca

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