Minor shadow Cabinet reshuffle in the end.
Rayner made, well, lord of all sorts of stuff: Deputy Leader, Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Secretary of State for the Future of Work.
Dodds goes from shadow chancellor to Party Chair & Chair of Labour Policy Review. Rachel Reeves takes her old job.
Nandy stays at foreign. Not much other movement.
I... don't really see the point of any of this. Could understand why there might be a reshuffle to get a few more prominent figures in place. But no sign ie of Yvette Cooper.
Feels like a fumbled bit of badly thought-through panic.
No great harm done, although I plough a lonely furrow thinking Dodds was good as Shadow Chancellor. But the manner of it doesn't exactly fill you with confidence for the future.
I still don't understand why Nandy is in foreign. She's been good but, rightly or wrongly, it's a fairly invisible role. She seems perfect for several domestic briefs. Baffling that she hasn't been given one.
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