Angela Rayner named shadow levelling up secretary in Labour reshuffle
by Pippa Crerar and Peter Walker from World news | The Guardian on (#6EEC8)
Deputy leader to take over brief from Lisa Nandy as Keir Starmer makes long-awaited changes to top team
Angela Rayner will become deputy prime minister if Labour wins power and will take on the levelling up brief, as Keir Starmer's long-awaited shadow cabinet reshuffle promoted several MPs on the right of the party before the next general election.
In a broad swathe of changes in which MPs on the Blairite wing largely prospered at the expense of those seen as being more on the soft left, Lisa Nandy, the former shadow levelling up secretary, was demoted to the international development brief.
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