Keir Starmer kicked off another desperate reshuffle today after Angela Rayner was finally forced to quit over her tax affairs.
The PM is taking a knife to his team just days after he tried to launch a Labour 'Phase 2' following a torrid summer and consistently dire polls.
Sir Keir has been left scrambling to stabilise his government following the departure of Ms Rayner from her posts of Deputy PM, Housing Secretary and deputy Labour leader.
Standards watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus concluded that Ms Rayner had tried to act with 'integrity' but still fell short of the standards required in government, failing to pay tens of thousands of pounds of stamp duty.
In a letter to Sir Keir, Ms Rayner stressed the 'strain' that the furore had put on her family. She said she 'deeply regretted' not having sought expert tax advice - even though she had received an explicit recommendation to do so.
