Cabinet Reshuffle Live: Starmer Overhauls Home Office and Ousts Rachel Reeves’s Sister

Sir Keir Starmer has reshuffled key ministerial posts, including sweeping changes in the Home Office

The prime minister sacked Rachel Reeves’s sister from the Cabinet and farming minister Daniel Zeichner, while Jason Stockwood, who had a senior role at dating site Match.com, has been appointed to the Department of Business and Trade.

Asked if Angela Rayner’s resignation over her tax affairs would cause a split in the party, Mr Jones said: “Nigel Farage is wrong there. The Labour Party is not going to split and there won’t be an early election.”

The Home Office has seen sweeping changes of ministers as Labour’s poll ratings continue to be hit by anger over migration and policing

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones earlier denied that the Government was in crisis and insisted Sir Keir now has the “strongest team” in place around the Cabinet table following Ms Rayner’s departure.

He ruled out the prospect of an early election amid opposition claims that the upheaval could open up splits within Labour and collapse the Prime Minister’s authority.

Speaking to broadcasters on Saturday, Mr Jones dismissed suggestions that the rejig could delay the Prime Minister’s self-described “phase two” of Government by moving senior figures to unfamiliar briefs.

“It’s not instability insofar as the outcomes that we’re delivering are the same,” Mr Jones, who is also the newly-appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, told BBC Breakfast.

He rejected the idea Yvette Cooper had been moved out of the Home Office because she was failing to control immigration, adding she would be “brilliant” in her new role as the UK’s top diplomat.

Sir Keir Starmer has continued his major reshuffle following Angela Rayner’s resignation as housing secretary and deputy prime minister.

The prime minister is seeking to relaunch his government as it lags behind Reform UK in the polls and struggles to deliver on key promises.

Sir Keir moved Yvette Cooper from the Home Office to the Foreign Office on Friday in a major shake-up of his top team.

But now he is reshuffling other key ministerial posts, including sweeping changes in the Home Office.

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Labour government ‘moving forward with strongest team’ following Cabinet reshuffle after Rayner resignation

Shabana Mahmood is expected to unveil plans to move asylum seekers from hotels into military barracks as the Government seeks to harden its immigration policy amid rising numbers of crossings in the Channel.

The newly appointed Home Secretary is reportedly set to announce the use of Ministry of Defence sites to house people after a wave of protests outside migrant accommodation over the summer.

The scale of the challenge facing the former justice secretary in her new role was illustrated on Saturday, when an estimated 1,000 people arrived in the UK by small boat over the course of the day.

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries said that the ‘biggest egos in modern British politics’ should form a pact to bring down Sir Keir Starmer’s malfunctioning Government.

Referring to Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson she said: “Both men could and would find some way to accommodate each other’s egos and to coexist for the sake of the country.”

It comes after she declared “the Tory party is dead” and announced that she has defected to Reform UK, in her column for the Daily Mail.

“The time for action is now and I believe that the only politician who has the answers, the knowledge and the will to deliver is Nigel Farage. Nigel and I will never agree about everything. Neither of us are political robots,” she wrote.

The former culture secretary, was MP for Mid-Bedfordshire from 2005 to 2023.

About 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel on Saturday.

It comes as Sir Keir Starmer carries out a wide-ranging reshuffle including a shake-up at the Home Office.

He made a number of changes to the Home Office, in a bid to get a grip on illegal immigration.

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Anna Turley, the new chair of the Labour Party has said Nigel Farage needs to “come clean” after “misleading” his constituents and the British public about buying a home in his constituency, Sky News reported.

“Given he has had much to say on other people’s tax affairs this week, it’s only right that he comes clean and makes the full facts over this public,” She said.

“He told the public something that helped him politically, while in reality doing something that may have helped him financially,” she added.

Questions about Mr Farage’s tax affairs have risen up the agenda after he and fellow senior members of Reform strongly criticised former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner for failing to pay £40,000 of stamp duty on a property in Brighton.

Rebecca Whittaker6 September 2025 22:30

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