What Keir Starmer’s latest reshuffle means for Labour

Overhaul moves party more to the centre as leader pitches to ‘make Brexit work’

Keir Starmer
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Yvette Cooper has been appointed shadow home secretary in a headline-grabbing reshuffle of Labour’s top team by Keir Starmer.

The Guardian said the “ruthless shakeup” left “almost no senior role untouched” and was “widely viewed at Westminster as accelerating Labour’s shift to the centre”.

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