You know what it’s time for? A reshuffle

Go on, lads. You know you want to. Once you’re done with the bank holiday BBQ, get the big board out and get to work, writes Marie Le Conte

Tuesday 30 May 2023 12:19 BST
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They are united in one way: both the Labour party and the Conservatives should be reshuffling their top teams sooner rather than later
They are united in one way: both the Labour party and the Conservatives should be reshuffling their top teams sooner rather than later (ParliamentTV)

It is a sunny bank holiday in happy England and party leaders, like the rest of the country, are enjoying some well-earnt time off. There is, however, no rest for columnists, or indeed the newspapers they write for. The news never sleeps and so we cannot stop filing.

Well, this is only partially true: the news has, in the case of this weekend, more or less stopped altogether. Parliament is in recess and everyone is focusing on the Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby drama over at ITV. Westminster is eerily quiet.

It feels like a good excuse to turn to the near future, and wonder what our politicians ought to be doing in the coming weeks and months. There is little that Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have in common and, due to their respective jobs, there are few pieces of advice that can feasibly apply to the both of them.

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