Keir Starmer’s government is not in chaos, the prime minister’s new chief secretary, Darren Jones, has said, following an emergency reshuffle triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation as deputy prime minister.

 

The cabinet reshuffle, originally planned for later in the autumn, was brought forward by Starmer in an attempt to assert control after Rayner was forced to step down from all three of her roles, having been found to have breached the ministerial code over her tax arrangements.

 

Asked whether the public should view the flurry of ministerial changes as instability—just a week into the new parliamentary session and only days after Starmer announced he had begun “phase two” of his premiership—Jones told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the reshuffle was in fact a demonstration of leadership. “No, this is not chaos,” he said. “This reshuffle was accelerated ahead of what [Starmer] had wanted to do. That’s not chaos, that’s leadership. He acted in the moment and decided to get on with it.”

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/06/not-chaos-darren-jones-defends-reshuffle-angela-rayner

This is the moron that said most of the criminals entering the UK by small boats were women and children, so believe what he says at your peril!