Any regrets, Keir? One day after PM hits the reshuffle panic button, key ministers already on the back foot

 

Keir Starmer's panic reshuffle was already unravelling last night with questions raised about his two highest profile appointments.

 

Jewish leaders complained that new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was a pro-Palestinian 'activist' who 'encouraged mob rule'.

 

And just ten days before Donald Trump's State visit to the UK, outspoken criticisms of the US President by Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper also emerged in which she accused him of 'Islamophobia, xenophobia and hatred'.

 

The Prime Minister was forced into an emergency reshuffle on Friday after Angela Rayner's resignation for failing to pay up to £40,000 in tax owed on a luxury seaside flat.

 

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Why did Starmer have to move his Ministers from their current job to another, which they may not have much experience of. Surely he just needed a new Housing Minister, and still say Lammy is DPM?