In a broad swath of changes in which MPs on the Blairite wing largely prospered at the expense of those seen as being more on the softleft, the former shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy was demoted to the international development brief.
With Keir Starmer seeking to get his favoured team in place before the election, there was a big promotion for Pat McFadden from No 2 in the Treasury team to running the Cabinet Office brief and becoming Labour's national campaign coordinator.
Liz Kendall, formerly a shadow health minister and a longstanding Blair-era party aide who ran against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership in 2015, has replaced Jonathan Ashworth as the shadow work and pensions secretary. Peter Kyle, another former Blair aide, was promoted to shadow science secretary.
Starmer said that having "put in the hard yards to change the Labour party" it now had a "strong team on the pitch" in the run-up to the election that could deliver the change the country needed.
One senior ally said the reshuffle would "put round pegs in round holes", bring in heavyweight experience - including a handful of MPs with experience as ministers and aides - and put the party on an election footing by bolstering its political operation.
However, even some Labour moderates were uncomfortable about the so-called "Blairite takeover", which they said was in part orchestrated by unelected. party officials. Momentum, the hard-left group, said the reshuffle represented "a further narrowing behind a Blairite agenda" that was unfit for the challenges of today.
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