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Sir Keir Starmer to undertake Labour reshuffle after poor showing in local elections
The Opposition leader will look to reshape his top team further across the weekend
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will carry out a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet team on Sunday, according to reports, as the fallout over the party’s dismal election performance continues.
MICHAEL Gove has ruled out taking the Scottish Government to court over an independence referendum. The issue came up on the Andrew Marr Show after the SNP s historical Holyrood election win where they won a total of 72 seats with the Scottish Greens. Asked whether the First Minister would be taken to court if a second referendum on Scottish independence was held, Gove said: “We’re not going near there.” The Cabinet Office minister told the BBC show: “The result of all of these elections was an instruction to politicians: thank you for the vaccination programme, the UK Government has delivered that across the whole country, now please concentrate on recovery.”
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer will reportedly carry out a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet team on Sunday as the fallout over the party’s dismal election performance continues. Starmer has come under fire after opting to sack his deputy Angela Rayner from her role as party chairman and national campaign co-ordinator on Saturday, with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham warning him that it was “wrong”. But the Opposition leader will look to reshape his top team further across the weekend as he looks to reverse the party’s downward spiral in England. As well as undertaking a reshuffle, the former director of public prosecutions has also hired Gordon Brown’s former chief pollster Deborah Mattinson – who has written a book about why Labour lost the so-called “red wall” at the 2019 General Election – as director of strategy.
Michael Gove says talk of another Scottish independence referendum is not an issue for the moment Michael Gove has insisted that the priorities of the Scottish Government should be recovery and that any circumstances in which Boris Johnson might agree to another referendum are not an issue at the moment . The Cabinet Office Minister told Sky News that the UK and Scottish governments should “concentrate on the things that unite us” rather than “constitutional wrangling” over a second independence referendum. Asked whether the Westminster government would block a second referendum, Mr Gove told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge On Sunday: “No, what’re working on doing at the moment is working together to deal with all the challenges that we face across the whole United Kingdom.