UK Cabinet demotion: Bridget Phillipson moves to equalities and Labour chair roles

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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‘It hurts’: Starmer loyalist Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion

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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