‘Quite the reverse’, says home secretary, amid reports Starmer’s reorganisation is aimed at freezing chancellor out ahead of autumn budget
Good morning. Kemi Badenoch has a big speech this morning (albeit one extensively trailed), the Greens are announcing the results of their leadership contest, but there is still considerable focus on what is happening in Downing Street, where Keir Starmer will chair the first cabinet to be attended by Darren Jones in his new role as chief secretary to the PM. As Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot report in the Guardian’s splash, Starmer’s mini-reshuffle is being seen as an attempt “to wrest back control of economic policy from the Treasury”.
Other papers have offered a more brutal intepretation, writing this up as Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, being marginalised.