Henry ZafmanChief political correspondent
Getty imagesMany names included in the Downing Street Shake-up of Sir Kir Stmper do not even have domestic names in Westminster.
But the latest tricks were announced on Monday that MPs return to Parliament, a big thing for many reasons.
First, in the context of organizational innovation.
If you are struggling to remember who was the Chief Secretary of the Prime Minister before Darren Jones, then the answer is that no one was there.
The role is a new creation, designed to give the Sir Kir starrer firmer command of the government machine, which he has complained that he is dull and unknown.
It is unusual to bring an MP in the heart of the operation of Downing Street, if it is not completely unprecedented – Orthodox MP Steve Barkle was the Chief of Staff of Boris Johnson in his last months as Prime Minister.
Clear structure
For all that innovation, these latest tricks are also partially more traditional – and clear – installing structures.
This morning there were two directors of communication, and four people who could claim to be the head of policy in some sense. Now one of each is.
Arriving for football analogy as Prime Minister, a government internal source told me: “There is no 10 Squen [Goran-Eriksson’s] England team. There were lots of midfield talent that could not play together. ,
The second important thing about these changes is cruelty.
It is a well -worn subject of starrer leadership, but he is ready to do demot, sideline or dispenses with those who have served him very closely.
On the other hand, some of the people today were sidelined, which were already appointed long ago – therefore, for some of his labor critics, cruelty is a good way to say that he is correcting his errors.
Economic focus
Third, 10 Downing Street has a clear focus during the entire change to increase economic knowledge. Jones has spent the last fourteen months as the second command of REWS.
The civil servant has now spent his career in Treasury. The new Chief Economic Advisor of the Prime Minister is a former deputy governor of the Bank of England amidst other superb qualifications, Bairoyon Shifik.
It is a belief that the budget of this autumn will not only be a decisive moment of the next few months, but for this whole government, although it lasts for a long time.
Some senior government figures are explaining this as the Prime Minister wants to play a big personal role in the discussion in the run-up for the budget.
People around Reeves say that she was pushing for some time for the starrer to promote her economic team, and she was involved in the discussion with the Prime Minister about her employees’ broad rage.
Perhaps the most important thing is that this shake-up is important what it says that how the star has gone on his own premiership so far.
This is clearly, an entry that has not really gone to the plan that the first year and their tenure. And this is their attempt to ensure next year and becomes a little better.
The leaflet is “delivery”. And it can be well that Jones and the rest are able to give the Prime Minister’s priorities more effectively than before.
Still for many labor MPs and advisors I talk, this issue is more fundamental: they are not clear what the Prime Minister wants to distribute to his team.
This is a question that only one person in Downing Street can answer anytime.
