Labour reshuffle: Anneliese Dodds out in Starmer s post-election reshuffle
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image captionAnneliese Dodds will be replaced by her Labour colleague Rachel Reeves
Sir Keir Starmer has sacked his shadow chancellor in a shake-up of his team after poor election results in England.
Anneliese Dodds will now become the Labour Party s chair - replacing deputy leader Angela Rayner, whom Sir Keir fired from the role on Saturday.
Ms Rayner will instead replace Rachel Reeves in shadowing Michael Gove at the Cabinet Office, as Ms Reeves is promoted to the shadow chancellor role.
The Labour leader chaired a meeting of the shadow cabinet on Monday.
Nick Brown - SACKED as party s chief whip
Anneliese Dodds - SACKED as shadow chancellor; but HIRED as party chair
Angela Rayner - SACKED as party chair and party campaign coordinator; but HIRED as the shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Rachel Reeves - HIRED as the new shadow chancellor
Alan Campbell - HIRED as party s chief whip
Thangam Debbonaire - HIRED as shadow Commons leader
Valerie Vaz - SACKED as shadow Commons leader
West Streeting - HIRED as shadow cabinet member for child poverty
Lucy Powell - HIRED as shadow housing secretary
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An embattled Sir Keir Starmer last night rearranged his deckchairs as he chopped and changed parts of his shadow cabinet in a make-or-break reshuffle.
A left-wing Labour politician appeared to mock leader Sir Keir Starmer last night as the party braced for a battering in the Super Thursday local elections.
As sources from across the political spectrum began painting a disastrous night for Labour, MP for Brighton Kemptown Lloyd Russell-Moyle took to Twitter on Thursday night to question his party s attempts to change its image.
He said: Good to see valueless flag waving and suit wearing working so well. or not?
The comment seemed to be a reference to a leaked strategy document which suggested Labour must make use of the flag, veterans, dressing smartly to win back voters in red wall seats in the party s former industrial heartlands.
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Labour leader Keir Starmer became a figure of ridicule this morning as he was subjected to an avalanche of memes urging him to stand down after party stronghold Hartlepool was won by the Tories.
As #StarmerOut began to gain traction on Twitter the 58-year-old was likened to a clown and suggested to be so weak he could be defeated by a feather.
Another teasing image mocked him up as Rick Moranis s bumbling character in film Honey I Shrunk The Kids, this time titled Honey I shrunk the Labour Party .
And he was even photoshopped so he replaced Boris Johnson in the humiliating picture of him waving flags stuck on a zipline.