SIR Keir Starmer attempted to bolster his top team with a Ministerial re-shuffle after a summer of chaos – as a top aide walked away from Downing Street.
The Prime Minister returned from his summer break to make a series of changes as his top team struggle to grapple with immigration and a sluggish economy.
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The move comes after a difficult few months for the PM as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage attempts to tackle the small boats crisis head on.
Sir Keir has appointed Darren Jones to be the new Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister in a new position.
He was previously number two to Rachel Reeves in the Treasury but will now oversee work across government.
Treasury minister James Murray will replace him as Treasury chief secretary while Chipping Barnet MP Dan Tomlinson has replaced him as Treasury exchequer secretary.
Ahead of the Budget, with a date expected to be announced this week, he has recruited Baroness Minouche Shafik, an economist and former president of Columbia University in New York, as his chief economic adviser.
James Lyons, his strategic communications director, has also walked away from Number 10.
It is the second such departure as former top spin chief Matthew Doyle left.
Tim Allan who was a former adviser to Tony Blair from 1992 to 1998 will be the Government’s Executive Director of Communications based in Downing Street.
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