Sir Keir Starmer is reshuffling his furniture pursuing Angela Rayner's resignation aft admitting she had not paid capable stamp work connected the acquisition of a caller home.
The premier minister's erstwhile right-hand pistillate stepped down arsenic lawman premier minister, lodging caput and lawman person of the Labour Party aft standards advisor Sir Laurie Magnus recovered she had breached the ministerial code.
Politics latest: Reshuffle aft Rayner quits
She paid modular stamp work connected a level she bought successful Hove, East Sussex, successful May aft taking proposal that it counted arsenic her lone location owed to her disabled son's spot owning the household location successful Ashton-under-Lyne - but it was established she should person paid more.
Her resignation has near a spread astir the furniture table, which Sir Keir is present filling.
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It was stressed aboriginal connected Chancellor Rachel Reeves would stay arsenic chancellor, successful an effort to halt the markets moving.
This is who is moving and wherever to:
David Lammy - overseas caput to justness caput and lawman PM
After flexing his diplomatic muscles with Donald Trump and his lawman JD Vance implicit the past year, Mr Lammy volition present determination to the justness brief.
The determination is apt to beryllium a stroke arsenic the PM had promised, astir precocious successful November, helium would beryllium overseas caput for the full parliament until 2029.
Although helium is nary longer holding 1 of the 4 large offices of state, helium has besides been made lawman premier minister, presumably to soften the blow.
Mr Lammy is adjacent to Sir Keir, some arsenic a person and successful his adjacent doorway constituency, and was seen grinning arsenic helium went into Number 10 aft being appointed.
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Yvette Cooper - location caput to overseas secretary
The Labour stalwart had made tackling amerciable migration a priority, truthful the determination could beryllium seen arsenic a disappointment for her.
However, she remains successful 1 of the 4 large offices of authorities - PM, chancellor, overseas and home.
Shabana Mahmood - justness caput to location secretary
A large promotion, the straight-talking Labour MP volition beryllium tasked with tackling the tiny boats situation and asylum seeker edifice protests.
She is nary alien to making hard decisions, deciding to escaped criminals aboriginal to trim situation overcrowding arsenic justness secretary.
Her determination makes it the archetypal clip each 3 large offices of state, aft the premier minister, are held by women.
Pat McFadden - chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and intergovernmental curate to enactment and pensions caput and caput of "super ministry"
Often seen arsenic Sir Keir's "number two", Mr McFadden volition instrumentality implicit a recently formed "super ministry".
It volition see the section for enactment and pensions and the skills remit of the section for acquisition - taking a ample portion of Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson's little and taking implicit from Liz Kendall arsenic enactment and pensions secretary.
While it is not a promotion astatine archetypal glance, it is simply a overmuch wider relation than helium has had arsenic chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - the highest-ranking Cabinet Office curate aft the PM.
Who is out?
Lucy Powell has been sacked arsenic person of the House of Commons.
Ian Murray has been sacked arsenic Scotland secretary.

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