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Sir Keir Starmer volition seat his archetypal furniture gathering of the parliamentary word today, aft a large shake-up to his Downing Street squad up of a defining play for the government.
After a summertime of unrest implicit asylum hotels, speculation astir tax rises successful the autumn budget, and grounds debased polling numbers, the premier minister volition caput up talks with Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Deputy PM Angela Rayner and different elder ministers.
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It follows a shake-up of Sir Keir's Downing Street team, headlined by Labour MP Darren Jones moved from the Treasury to Number 10 to oversee the day-to-day transportation of the premier minister's priorities.
He spent the past twelvemonth arsenic the main caput to the Treasury - fundamentally Ms Reeves's deputy. That relation volition present beryllium taken by James Murray, who was antecedently the exchequer secretary.
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Sir Keir marked the shake-up with a societal media video connected Monday, which declared "phase 2 of my authorities starts today".
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, helium said helium understood the public's "frustration" - but insisted the archetypal twelvemonth of his authorities had been astir "fixing the foundations". He said it volition present spell "further and faster" to present change.
Reports suggest the shake-up has been done with an oculus connected the autumn budget. Last year's, the archetypal by a Labour chancellor for good implicit a decade, was met with important backlash - notably implicit the summation successful nationalist security contributions for employers.
Ms Reeves had already been criticised for her arguable determination to chopped the wintertime substance allowance for millions of pensioners, which was aboriginal reversed.
One root told The one determination had been vexation implicit Ms Reeves's performance, saying she "made mistakes and Keir got blamed", portion a Labour MP told The Daily Telegraph the PM's appointments were "a awesome that [Ms Reeves] is successful a anemic position, and it's deteriorating".
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'Two-tier' sentencing veto proposed
The authorities made a engaged commencement to the caller parliamentary word connected Monday by announcing changes to household reunion rules for refugees successful a bid to deter tiny vessel crossings.
And Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood volition beryllium fixed the powerfulness to veto immoderate changes to sentencing guidelines projected by an autarkic assemblage - implicit claims it amounted to "two-tier" justice.
The Sentencing Council said successful April that a pre-sentence report, the results of which are taken into relationship erstwhile considering a criminal's sentence, would "usually beryllium necessary" earlier handing retired punishment for idiosyncratic from an ethnic, taste oregon religion minority.
Ms Mahmood called the guidance "unacceptable" and said it amounted to "differential attraction earlier the law" arsenic she urged the assembly to reverse it.
Under caller rules announced connected Tuesday, the Sentencing Council volition present beryllium incapable to contented immoderate changes without ministerial oversight, and some the justness caput and the woman main justness volition request to springiness the greenish light.
The changes volition beryllium brought successful arsenic portion of the Sentencing Bill, introduced successful the House of Commons connected Tuesday.
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