Sir Keir Starmer will chair his first cupboard assembly of the parliamentary time period in the present day, after a significant shake-up to his Downing Road crew forward of a defining interval for the federal government.
After a summer time of unrest over asylum hotels, hypothesis about tax rises in the autumn budget, and document low polling numbers, the prime minister will head up talks with Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Deputy PM Angela Rayner and different senior 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 Quantity 10 to supervise the day-to-day supply of the prime minister’s priorities.
He spent the final yr because the chief secretary to the Treasury – basically Ms Reeves’s deputy. That function will now be taken by James Murray, who was beforehand the exchequer secretary.
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Darren Jones. Pic: PA
Starmer: It is a new section
Sir Keir marked the shake-up with a social media video on Monday, which declared “section two of my authorities begins in the present day”.
Chatting with BBC Radio 5 Stay, he stated he understood the general public’s “frustration” – however insisted the primary yr of his authorities had been about “fixing the foundations”. He stated it is going to now go “additional and quicker” to ship change.
Stories counsel the shake-up has been achieved with an eye fixed on the autumn price range. Final yr’s, the primary by a Labour chancellor for properly over a decade, was met with vital backlash – notably over the rise in nationwide insurance coverage contributions for employers.
Ms Reeves had already been criticised for her controversial determination to chop the winter gasoline allowance for hundreds of thousands of pensioners, which was later reversed.
One supply instructed The i there had been frustration over Ms Reeves’s efficiency, saying she “made errors and Keir received blamed”, whereas a Labour MP instructed The Every day Telegraph the PM’s appointments had been “a sign that [Ms Reeves] is in a weak place, and it is deteriorating”.
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‘Two-tier’ sentencing veto proposed
The federal government made a busy begin to the brand new parliamentary time period on Monday by announcing changes to family reunion rules for refugees in a bid to deter small boat crossings.
And Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood will probably be given the ability to veto any modifications to sentencing tips proposed by an unbiased physique – over claims it amounted to “two-tier” justice.
The Sentencing Council stated in April {that a} pre-sentence report, the outcomes of that are taken into consideration when contemplating a felony’s sentence, would “often be essential” earlier than handing out punishment for somebody from an ethnic, cultural or religion minority.
Ms Mahmood called the guidance “unacceptable” and stated it amounted to “differential remedy earlier than the legislation” as she urged the council to reverse it.
Beneath new guidelines introduced on Tuesday, the Sentencing Council will now be unable to subject any modifications with out ministerial oversight, and each the justice secretary and the woman chief justice might want to give the inexperienced gentle.
The modifications will probably be introduced in as a part of the Sentencing Invoice, launched within the Home of Commons on Tuesday.
