It was supposed to be the week in which Sir Keir Starmer began to wrestle back the political narrative by firing the starting gun on the Budget, dramatically shaking up his No 10 operation, putting £7,500 in parents’ pockets with the introduction of more free childcare, and launching a fresh asylum crackdown on family reunion.
Instead, the Prime Minister ended it being forced to carry out a major reshuffle after his deputy Angela Rayner was forced to quit, with the Government once again plunged into crisis in a pattern seen repeatedly since Labour’s landslide election win last year.
Some in Whitehall were initially optimistic that the Deputy Prime Minister’s tax affairs would not overshadow Starmer’s reset.
Another simply shrugged: “That’s politics.”
But the mood on the backbenches was less sanguine.
Shortly after Rayner admitted that she underpaid stamp duty on the purchase of a second home in Hove, one MP in Parliament simply started singing the Lego movie song “everything is awesome”.
A second MP said of Rayner: “Can you just not do that?
“It’s not about whether she’s broken the rules, it’s just not helpful.
“Does she need to buy a house on the south coast when she’s got a Red Wall constituency way up north?”
Graffiti daubed outside the apartment building in Hove, East Sussex, where Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner owns a second home (Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)Reset ‘could have gone better’
A third, reflecting on the Downing Street reshuffle that was supposed to herald the second phase of Starmer’s premiership, acknowledged: “The start of phase two could have gone better. I’m hopeful we’ll see the results of the personnel changes soon, but it’s not happened yet.”
On Friday, Starmer was left having to carry out the major Cabinet reshuffle he had been resisting. Some insiders nevertheless believe a wider shake-up beyond No 10 was necessary.
One Labour MP said: “Some ministers just aren’t up to the job.
“I know he’s seen as a bit mad, but the longer I have spent in this place, the more I understand what Dominic Cummings was talking about. There just seems very little that can be done [in government] without serious changes.”
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