The labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is set to carry out a reshuffle of his frontbench team later following the party’s poor performance in the English local elections.
Sir Keir has faced a barrage of criticism from even within his own ranks following defeat in the Hartlepool by-election and losing control of several councils.
Sir Keir has already sacked his deputy Angela Rayner as Labour’s chair and campaigns co-ordinator.
Following from this, the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said she had been made a “scapegoat”, but Sir Keir has said he takes “full responsibility” for Labour’s election results in England.
McDonnell also claimed that the leader’s style of running the party was “very centralised” and that he had “controlled” the election campaign.
He told BBC Breakfast: “Keir made it possible for people to listen to Labour’s message and then be influenced and that’s why the result was so good, because people listened to what we had to say… And obviously that’s really great for me and great for the Labour Party.”
It is understood the reshuffles he aim is to have more identifiable faces on the front bench who can increase the party’s impact.
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