Deputy leader to take over brief from Lisa Nandy as Keir Starmer makes long-awaited changes to top team
Angela Rayner will become deputy prime minister if Labour wins the next election and will take on the levelling up brief, as Keir Starmer’s long-awaited shadow cabinet reshuffle proved more widespread than some had predicted.
With Starmer seeking to get his favoured team in place before the election, Shabana Mahmood, who was Labour’s national campaigns coordinator, takes over the shadow justice secretary role held by Steve Reed since 2021.as the shadow work and pensions secretary. Darren Jones, the fast-rising backbencher who chairs the Commons business committee, had been tipped for this job, but instead becomes shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves’s number two, in place of Pat McFadden.
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