This is why Starmer's recent reshuffle is doomed to fail

Keir Starmer rejigged his top team last week in a surprise reshuffle

Keir Starmer’s personnel switch-up is an attempt to get a firmer grip on his government’s economic policymaking. Helen Thomas lays out why it won’t work.

Keir Starmer’s latest cabinet reshuffle was billed as a decisive break from his choppy first year in power. Yet this is less a bold national reset than a desperate rebrand. It is a last-ditch attempt to convince markets, media and Labour MPs that he still has control.

The reality is far harsher. With a majority but no mandate for the economic revolution that is required, pressure will continue to build on the fractures within the PM’s own party. The gathering fiscal crisis leaves financial markets in charge, no matter the names about the Cabinet table.

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