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How do reshuffles really work? With Luke Sullivan

How do reshuffles really work? With Luke Sullivan

Update: 2025-09-04
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Luke Sullivan, a former political adviser to Keir Starmer and two labour chief whips, explains how politicians get promoted and why some lose their jobs while Jonathan and Gloria reflect on their own experiences of their appointments to the shadow cabinet


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