hoping this will be the team that can take him into the next election. as you point out, he did all of this six months ago, albeit on a smaller scale, and has felt the need to do it again. scale, and has felt the need to do it aaain. , , ., scale, and has felt the need to do itaaain. , it again. chris, you will recall, it was a reshuffle it again. chris, you will recall, it was a reshuffle with it again. chris, you will recall, it was a reshuffle with a it again. chris, you will recall, it was a reshuffle with a lot - it again. chris, you will recall, it was a reshuffle with a lot of - it again. chris, you will recall, it was a reshuffle with a lot of bad j was a reshuffle with a lot of bad headlines with almost no changes, this is quite a substantial change. you mentioned yvette cooper, let us say a word for long servers who have come through thick and thin like yvette cooper and one of the only people who survive continuously since the years of tony blair, john healy given prom
the first minister made clear there was a need for extra caution. while we all hope the emerging understanding of it will reduce rather than increase our level of concern, there is no doubt this presents potentially the most challenging development in the course of the pandemic for quite some time. at westminster the health secretary explained why new restrictions were needed, including tougher rules on face coverings in england. we re building our defences and putting these measures in place without delay. scientists are working at speed, at home and abroad, to determine whether this variant is more dangerous. and i can assure the house that if it emerges that this variant is no more dangerous than the delta variant, then we won t keep measures in place for a day longer than necessary. but labour said the government should have gone further. keeping masks in place would always have been our plan a.
worth mentioning, lisa nandy is no longer shadow foreign secretary, she will shadow michael gove in the communities department which also does what the government calls levelling up. labour see the whole question of helping out communities that they left behind as absolutely crucial as a battleground ahead of the next election and lisa nandy is seen as one of the better communicators in labour and she moves there. plenty of others, lucy powell, shadow culture secretary, nick thomas symonds moving to international trade and the whole question of brexit. a couple of other movements elsewhere and no doubt further news to come about the lower ministerial ranks. sir keir starmer is saying he is pleased he has a team that is smaller and leaner, the shadow cabinet was getting rather big at the front bench was absolutely colossal and this involves something of a pruning of the numbers answer keir starmer