The window 'slams shut' on the football transfer market, as every pundit is obliged to say, ending months of speculation of who will be in or out, and even wilder rumours about the size of the transfer fees.

And now our attentions turn to the shenanigans at Westminster, where the Prime Minister has already begun the shake-up of his team, and where the speculation is even wilder about the size of the hole in the public finances. Is it £20 billion, or is it the £41.2 billion reported by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research? And most importantly of all, what taxes will be going up to fund this?

But first to the transfer window. Sir Keir Starmer isn't the type of fellow who spills the beans to journalists out the window of his car, and his mini-reshuffle is probably not going set the public's pulses racing.

The big move has been for Darren Jones, not the biggest name in the Government, but perhaps best described as Sir Keir Starmer's answer to Michael Gove. Admired by some for his bright mind and reformist........

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