Another Labour Reshuffle Is Happening
The reshuffle started with the sacking of chief whip Rosie Winterton and sees Diane Abbott move to shadow home secretary, among others.
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Jeremy Corbyn announced a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet on Thursday evening.
The news came with the sacking of chief whip Rosie Winterton in late afternoon, who has been replaced by Nick Brown, the former Labour chief whip under Gordon Brown.
“I welcome Nick’s agreement to serve as chief whip to the parliamentary Labour party,” Corbyn said in a statement. “I would like to pay tribute to Rosie Winterton for her six years’ exceptional service as Chief Whip. She has played an outstanding role in her support for me as leader and for the Labour Party as a whole.”
Other appointments were announced a few hours later, including:
- Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, who became one of the party’s peers over the summer, as shadow attorney general
- Sarah Champion, who had left the shadow cabinet after the referendum but has come back as shadow women and equalities minister
- former health shadow secretary and major Corbyn ally Diane Abbott as shadow home secretary, replacing Andy Burnham
- Jo Stevens as shadow secretary of Wales
- Jonathan Reynolds as shadow economic secretary to the Treasury.
- Dawn Butler as shadow minister for diverse communities.
- Clive Lewis was announced as shadow business, energy & industrial strategy secretary. It was reported that he would be replaced as shadow defence minister by Nia Griffith,
- Keir Starmer was announced as the new shadow Brexit secretary.
Welcoming the news, Chakrabati said she hopes to “follow in a great tradition of law officers on both sides of the aisle who have defended rights, freedoms and the Rule of Law.”
Abbott quipped that “my first job when I left university was as a graduate trainee in the Home Office, so my career has come full circle.”
The Labour leader also announced that “for the first time ever, two out of the three traditional ‘great offices of state’ will be shadowed by women.”
Further appointments are expected to be announced Thursday night and Friday.
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