SIr Keir Starmer begins reshuffle of Downing Street team

Sir Keir Starmer has announced a shake-up of his squad successful Downing Street arsenic helium seeks to reset his premiership aft a hard archetypal twelvemonth successful office.

Darren Jones, who was serving arsenic the main caput to the Treasury, has been moved to Number 10 to oversee the day-to-day transportation of the premier minister's priorities.

Politics latest: Starmer begins Downing Street reshuffle

It is simply a caller elder relation successful which helium volition enactment crossed authorities to "drive guardant advancement successful cardinal argumentation areas", Downing Street said.

His authoritative rubric is main caput to the premier minister, and helium volition respond straight to the PM.

Mr Jones has agelong been seen arsenic a rising prima of the Labour Party, rising to prominence successful 2021 arsenic seat of the concern prime committee, erstwhile helium made a sanction for himself holding concern leaders to account.

He has previously described Tony Blair arsenic his governmental hero and is understood to person privately urged the authorities to beryllium much radical.

James Murray, who was the exchequer secretary, has been promoted to Mr Jones's erstwhile relation - fundamentally the lawman to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Dan Tomlinson, a caller MP from the 2024 intake who was the government's "growth ngo champion", volition regenerate Mr Murray.

Downing Street said the shingle up is intended to "bolster" its operations to people a caller word successful parliament, promising a "ramping up" of delivering connected the government's "Plan for Change".

Economist Baroness Minouche Shafik volition besides instrumentality connected a caller elder relation successful Downing Street, arsenic main economical adviser.

Tim Allan, a erstwhile advisor to Tony Blair, has been appointed arsenic the government's Executive Director of Communications and volition enactment with existing manager of communications, Steph Driver

James Lyons, who had been manager of strategical communications wrong No 10, has near his relation aft a year.

Mr Lyons said helium had told colleagues that helium ne'er intended to service successful the relation forever, and had been readying connected departing Downing Street by the extremity of the twelvemonth - but has present brought this forward.

The premier minister's Deputy Chief of Staff Vidhya Alakeson volition instrumentality connected the expanded and further responsibilities of wide oversight of Policy and Delivery wrong Downing Street.

Daniel York-Smith has been appointed arsenic the premier minister's Principal Private Secretary (PPS). PPS's are elder civilian servants who runs a furniture minister's backstage office.

The relation was antecedently held by Nin Pandit, who remains wrong the No10 squad and volition pb a recently reformed Downing Street Delivery Team.

Although galore of these names are not well-known nationalist figures, the shingle up is important arsenic it marks the opening of a "reset" successful government.

The summertime recess has been marred by antagonistic headlines connected migration and Channel crossings with Reform UK person Nigel Farage dominating the discussions.

Sir Keir's popularity ratings person plummeted aft a challenging archetypal twelvemonth successful which helium faced backlash connected issues similar the chopped to the wintertime substance payment, the emergence successful leader National Insurance taxation and planned payment reforms.

The Tories said the reshuffle shows a "Downing Street successful situation - wholly distracted from fixing the harm they've done to the economy, jobs and tiny businesses".