The move of Nin Pandit, the prime minister's principal private secretary, is a sign that No 10 is not working as it should. As David Maddox, our political editor, argues, it suggests weakness and dysfunction at the heart of government.
Nominally, Pandit is moving to be one of several people in charge of "delivery", but her replacement as PPS reflects badly on Keir Starmer, given that he chose her for that post less than a year ago. That was after getting rid of Sue Gray as chief of staff, someone else he chose and then blamed for not being the right person for the job.
The change of PPS was going to be announced next week, along with other personnel changes and a junior ministerial reshuffle, described to me by one source as "deck-chair shuffling" – but it was leaked to the BBC along with an anonymous comment that Starmer thought Pandit was "ineffective".
This is an appalling way to run a government: for the prime minister to make appointments, including Gray, Pandit and Chris Wormald, the cabinet secretary, and then to allow political staff in No 10 to brief against them.
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