Keir Starmer Labour leadership in chaos after 'botched' cabinet reshuffle

KEIR Starmer's leadership of Labour is in chaos on Monday after a botched reshuffle left his authority in tatters and his top team at war.

An extraordinary briefing war broke out between him and his deputy Angela Rayner after his attempt to fire her spectacularly backfired.

After 24 hours of total chaos Sir Keir was forced to back down from plans for a total overhaul and make largely cosmetic changes to his shadow Cabinet.

The episode, coming on the back of some disastrous results in last Thursday's elections, has left his leadership holed below the waterline.

And today Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham had to issue an extraordinary plea for different factions within Labour to stop the public mudslinging.

Keir Starmer has kicked off his Labour Party reshuffle, demoting the shadow chancellor Annelise Dodds.

The Chief Whip, Nick Brown, has also been removed from the post.

Lisa Nandy is expected to stay in her position as Labour's shadow foreign secretary, according to the BBC.

Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, will now also become the shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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