"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."
"I just don't accept the definition of chaos. Of course, we would rather Angela had not been in that position, but she was, the process happened. The process happened quite quickly as well if you think about the point at which Angela referred herself to the ethics adviser, the point at which she gave the advice, and the prime minister acting within a matter of hours off the back of that advice. And as I say, the prime minister had been planning a broader reshuffle on a slower timetable, but he brought that forward because that is his decision as prime minister; that's exhibiting leadership and control, not chaos."
An emergency cabinet reshuffle was brought forward after Angela Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister following a finding that she breached the ministerial code over her tax arrangements. The prime minister accelerated a broader reshuffle he had been planning for the autumn and made rapid ministerial changes within hours of receiving advice from the ethics adviser. Darren Jones, the new chief secretary, described the accelerated reshuffle as a demonstration of leadership and control rather than chaos. Starmer had previously stood by Rayner amid questions about underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 flat. A senior MP put in charge of day-to-day delivery was also pressed on related matters.
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