If Keir Starmer dreamt that his shake-up of the Downing Street operation yesterday would lend him a new air of strategic competence, he was badly mistaken.
As recently as Sunday, Downing Street was reportedly insisting any plans for a reshuffle 'had been put on ice'.
By yesterday morning, in a sign of the confusion and chaos that defines this administration, the sackings and promotions had duly begun.
Some members of the Cabinet, who were on their first day back at Westminster after the summer recess, only realised what was going on thanks to social media.
One minister harrumphed to me last night: 'The first I knew was when I saw it on Twitter.'
