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Considered one of Labour’s latest MPs has joined the social gathering’s frontbench workforce simply 54 days since being elected to Parliament.
Michael Shanks has been made a shadow Scotland minister in Sir Keir Starmer’s high workforce as a part of a reshuffle of Labour ranks.
It’s a fast political promotion for the previous trainer who was solely elected as MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West on 5 October.
He gave his maiden speech within the Home of Commons lower than a fortnight in the past.
Mr Shanks appears to have been handed his new function on the premise that his election final month doubled the variety of Scottish MPs on the Labour benches.
Michael Shanks, pictured with Dachshunds Allan and Stanley, has been made a shadow Scotland minister in Sir Keir Starmer’s high workforce as a part of a reshuffle of Labour ranks
Mr Shanks appears to have been handed his new function by Sir Keir on the premise that his election final month doubled the variety of Scottish MPs on the Labour benches
Mr Shanks will workforce up in Sir Keir’s shadow Scottish workforce with Ian Murray (left), the shadow Scotland secretary and Labour MP for Edinburgh South
He’ll workforce up in Sir Keir’s shadow Scottish workforce with Ian Murray, the shadow Scotland secretary and Labour MP for Edinburgh South.
The reshuffle of Labour shadow ministers got here after Sir Keir was this month hit by a slew of resignations as a part of a rebel towards his stance on the Gaza disaster.
Sir Keir was hit by the lack of 10 frontbenchers as a complete of 56 Labour MPs defied him and backed a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in a Commons vote.
Mr Shanks grew to become MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West at a by-election prompted by the ejection of Margaret Ferrier from the Commons for breaking Covid guidelines.
His marketing campaign to interchange the disgraced former SNP MP was virtually derailed initially when he put himself at odds with Sir Keir on advantages coverage.
Mr Shanks vowed to marketing campaign towards the ‘heinous’ two-child profit cap.
This was regardless of Sir Keir having said he would hold the measure in place if he turns into prime minister after the following basic election.
However, with assist for the SNP having drained away following Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as social gathering chief, Mr Shanks managed to safe the seat for Labour.
The by-election victory represented an enormous enhance to Sir Keir’s hopes of successful a lot of Scottish seats on the basic election.
Throughout his maiden speech to the Commons this month, Mr Shanks swiped on the Tories for shedding their deposit within the Rutherglen and Hamilton West contest.
He additionally joked at how, with Labour having secured 4 by-election victories since July, ‘maybe a basic election won’t be crucial in any case for Labour to kind the following Authorities’.
Different modifications in Sir Keir’s high workforce, within the wake of the rebel over Gaza, included the appointment of one in all Gordon Brown’s previous aides as a shadow Treasury minister.
Lord Spencer Livermore, who was chief strategist to Mr Brown throughout his time as prime minister and chancellor, is now shadow exchequer secretary to the Treasury.
He was additionally accountable for Labour’s marketing campaign on the 2015 basic election, when the social gathering suffered a close to wipe-out in Scotland beneath Ed Miliband’s management.
