Labour sources confirm that chief whip Nick Brown has been sacked #LabourReshuffle
Labour sources confirm Rachel Reeves is new shadow chancellor #LabourReshuffle
Labour sources confirm Angela Rayner will be shadow CDL - and will be focusing on the future of work/ quality jobs for every part of country.
Labour sources confirm Anneliese Dodds will be new party chair #LabourReshuffle
I’m told this reshuffle will be “quite limited” and that leadership “backed off quite a lot of changes” after backlash. Eg Lisa Nandy and Jonathan Ashworth looking safe.
Thangam Debbonaire to shadow leader of the Commons #LabourReshuffle
Wes Streeting gets a new child poverty brief - sitting in the shadow cabinet. Labour sources say Starmer wants to make this and work/ jobs key planks of his future plan.
Nick Brown’s deputy Alan Campbell to become new chief whip. Understand that everybody else stays in post. #LabourReshuffle
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Keir Starmer is addressing Labour party staff - telling them they put their "heart and soul" into campaign and he is "proud" of them.
But he admits there's no hiding the "bitter disappointment" of results - partic Hartlepool. "I share that".
Starmer tells staff he is "incredibly proud and delighted" of Mark Drakeford's Welsh result & "really pleased" with Anas Sarwar's campaign in Scotland.
"The victories for metro mayors, in councils we won and in Wales shows the difference we can make in power".
Starmer: We're still too internally focused - not good enough yet at focusing on voters. We've been losing elections for 11 yrs. We'll be spelling out what a post-pandemic, post-austerity Britain outside EU looks like. Labour is going to be about going forward to something better
Committee chair @GregClarkMP reveals that Dominic Cummings has agreed to give evidence on the Covid pandemic to the joint health/science committee inquiry... but not today.
Cummings reveals conditions he set out to Boris Johnson to join him in No 10 the w/e before he became PM: 1. get Brexit done/ no 2nd ref 2. double science budget 3. create Arpa-style body 4. change how "disaster" of Whitehall works
Johnson told him: "Deal"
Underlines his power
Priti Patel tells MPs that heartache over Sarah Everard's death can be summed up in five words: "She was only walking home".
Home Sec says online accounts of womens' experiences are "so powerful" because "every single one of us can relate to them".
Home Sec says there has been a "totally unprecedented" 78,000 responses to the reopened govt consultation on tackling violence against women and girls since Friday.
“I continue to urge everyone for as long as these regs are in place not to participate in large gatherings or attend protests."
“The right to protest is the cornerstone of our democracy - but the Govt's duty remains to prevent more lives being lost during this pandemic.”
BREAKING: London Mayor @SadiqKhan to ask HMIC to conduct a "full, independent investigation" into the Met's policing of the Clapham vigil - and the IOPC to look into actions of individual police officers.
Khan: “I received assurances from the Met last week that the vigil would be policed sensitively. In my view, this was not the case.
“I asked the Commissioner to come in today to give me an explanation of yesterday’s events... I am not satisfied with the explanation provided."
Home Office sources confirm that Priti Patel has also asked the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Windsor, for a report into the Met's policing of the vigil yesterday.
Boris Johnson, asked by @bbclaurak what went so wrong, replies: “I’m deeply sorry for the lives that have been lost. I take responsibility for everything the Government has done. We did everything we could and continue to do everything that we can".
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty warns death toll is still going up.
“Unfortunately we’re going to see quite a lot more deaths over the next few weeks before the effect of the vaccine is felt”.
Asked by @PaulBrandITV about 100k Covid death toll, PM says he could “exhaust the thesaurus of misery”.
Not sure that’s *quite* the tone the bereaved might hope for.
He adds: “It’s an appalling and tragic loss of life”.