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Starmer’s reshuffle bid to demote Rayner described as ‘despicable act of cowardice’ – politics live

Latest updates: Kim Johnson, the MP for Liverpool Riverside, says she was ‘very disappointed with how Starmer had treated deputy leader

  • Angela Rayner takes major role after Keir Starmer reshuffle standoff
  • Winners and losers: Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle
  • Analysis: briefings, silence and sackings as faith in leader slips

One of the winners in the shadow cabinet reshuffle was Shabana Mahmood, who has been appointed Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator. She has been giving interviews this morning and she told BBC Breakfast that the party needed to “learn the lessons we need to learn from the places where we have suffered defeat to earn the trust of voters again”. She said that was “the only show in town and that is the thing that the whole of our movement has to be focused on”.

On the Today programme earlier Diane Abbott, the former shadow home secretary, said Sir Keir Starmer should stick to the policies he set out in his 10 pledges during the leadership campaign. One of them, on migrants’ rights, said Starmer would “defend free movement as we leave the EU”. When Mahmood was interviewed on Today, she was asked if Labour was still committed to “free movement” and she sidestepped the question, saying there would be a policy review underway. This is from the Evening Standard’s Joe Murphy.

Labour looks to be in the process of wriggling out of @Keir_Starmer’s unwise pledge to restore free movemement.@ShabanaMahmood being pinned on @BBCr4today by @bbcnickrobinson and she’s very plainly not reaffirming it

Andy Burnham, who was re-elected as the Labour mayor for Greater Manchester last week, has also criticised the way the shadow cabinet reshuffle was held. He said:

I didn’t like the way that was handled, I’ll be honest, and I didn’t see why we were getting a negative story on Saturday night when myself and Steve Rotheram and other people around the country had good victories to celebrate, so that wasn’t right, but I don’t think the way Angela was treated was right.

But it’s been resolved and we move on from this morning. There’s a shadow cabinet in place now.

I can’t support this.https://t.co/mbmGHaROdL

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