Analysis: Anneliese Dodds sacking was a long time coming
Anneliese Dodds new position is party chair and policy review chief (Getty Images)
Anneliese Dodds’ sacking last night makes her one of the shortest ever serving Labour shadow chancellors, after a little more than 13 months in the role.
She impressed early on as she marked a clear tonal change from the far-left policies of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, before heavy criticism began to fall on her shoulders.
Her new role as party chair and policy review chief is nothing to sneeze at, but she will no longer retain responsibility for shadowing the impossibly popular chancellor Rishi Sunak or setting the party’s economic direction.