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Ed Miliband called up two of Gordon
Brown’s backroom bruisers to the political front line yesterday in a
Shadow Cabinet reshuffle designed to beef up his attacks on the Tories.
Tom Watson – who led a campaign to expose the News of the World phone-hacking scandal – will become deputy party chairman in charge of a new campaigns attack unit.
In a sign Labour is failing to land significant political punches, he will be joined by Michael Dugher – a former Brown spin doctor who becomes Shadow Minister without Portfolio.
The Labour leader’s decision to create a Brownite cabal at the top of the party overshadowed the elevation of rising stars such as Chuka Umunna, the business spokesman; Rachel Reeves, the new Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; and Liz Kendall, who will speak on care and pensioner issues.
The reshuffle left the most senior posts unchanged. Husband and wife team Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper remain Shadow Chancellor and Shadow Home Secretary respectively, while Douglas Alexander retains his position as Shadow Foreign Secretary. Read More
Tom Watson – who led a campaign to expose the News of the World phone-hacking scandal – will become deputy party chairman in charge of a new campaigns attack unit.
In a sign Labour is failing to land significant political punches, he will be joined by Michael Dugher – a former Brown spin doctor who becomes Shadow Minister without Portfolio.
The Labour leader’s decision to create a Brownite cabal at the top of the party overshadowed the elevation of rising stars such as Chuka Umunna, the business spokesman; Rachel Reeves, the new Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; and Liz Kendall, who will speak on care and pensioner issues.
The reshuffle left the most senior posts unchanged. Husband and wife team Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper remain Shadow Chancellor and Shadow Home Secretary respectively, while Douglas Alexander retains his position as Shadow Foreign Secretary. Read More
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