Alastair Campbell claims that the recent cabinet reshuffle was a deliberate purge designed to replace Starmer loyalists with figures who align more closely with Andy Burnham's vision.

“Because Andy Bernham wants to create a new cabinet much more in his own image. Look, I I I agree. I think there are some of these people that you'd say have have been and could easily have continued to be very good cabinet ministers, but it's more, I think, about the people that he wanted to bring i”