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Keir Starmer's No.10 Shake-Up Is An Admission His Government Is In Crisis

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01.09.2025

Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street.

Keir Starmer has unveiled another shake-up of his No.10 operation in a tacit admission that his government faces a full-blown crisis.

As HuffPost UK revealed last week, the prime minister is ringing the changes as MPs return to parliament after the summer recess.

Sources said Starmer “has decided to take more direct oversight of delivery” amid frustration that his demands are not being implemented quickly enough.

It comes less than a year after the last Downing Street re-organisation, which saw Sue Gray sacked as Starmer’s chief of staff after just three months in the job.

Since then, the government’s struggles have continued, with both the Labour Party and the PM’s poll numbers tanking.

After a summer dominated by the small boats crisis and with another tax-raising Budget coming in the autumn, Starmer hopes that the latest........

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