Bridget Phillipson, a Starmer loyalist and former education secretary, was demoted from her cabinet position and assigned roles as minister for women and equalities and Labour party chair. The reassignment is characterized as an attempt to restore party unity under Starmer's leadership.
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Exclusive: The minister for women and equalities has also been handed the role of Labour chair, in a not-so subtle bid to restore unity to Burnham’s government If Bridget Phillipson is angry at losing a job – which, in the brief honeymoon period at the start of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, she called the “honour of my life” – she is doing a good job of hiding it. “It hurts to lose a job you l
The Guardian shows signs of becoming the house journal of Starmerites in Exile. I suppose it's North London solidarity. Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities