Darren Jones Sidelined from Number Ten

0:00On April 7th, Kear Starmer's chief secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones, has been sidelined from number 10 after just seven months on the bail. Job. He got the gig back in September of last year as part of a big team reset to steady the ship after MPs came back from summer break. Now, the Bristol Northwest MP is barely showing up there anymore. New heavy hitters like Antonio Romeo, the first female cabinet secretary appointed in February, and Vidya Alacacin, the acting number 10 chief of, staff have taken center stage. Sources say Jones got pushed aside once they came on board, calling the whole chief secretary role a not-so-great idea from the jump. Government insiders are blunt, telling outlets he's been turfed out to all intents and purposes. But his allies insist there's no beef with Starmer, just as shift to focus on bigger reform tasks outside the daily no-ten grind. This shake-up echoes the chaos last September, when deputy PM Angela Reiner quit on the fifth

1:02over a tax bet, sparking a reshuffle, and then lured. Mandelson got sacked on the 11th as U.S. ambassador over Epstein ties. Starmer's September reboot barely lasted days. Officials are standing by Jones, saying he's pushing hard to rewire government for better public services no matter where he's working from. With local elections coming next month, expect another round of changes in Downing Street.