Sir Keir Starmer's cabinet reshuffle will "not fix the fundamentals" following Angela Rayner's departure, a top UK pollster has claimed.
Speaking to GB News, academic and polling guru Matt Goodwin declared the latest appointments in the Labour Government will "not fix their unwillingness to do the difficult stuff".
Following the announcement of Angela Rayner's departure from Government, the Prime Minister was forced into a major cabinet reshuffle.
David Lammy has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, with Yvette Cooper moved to Foreign Secretary and Shabana Mahmood taking her position as Home Secretary.
Matt Goodwin has delivered a scathing verdict of Keir Starmer's cabinet reshuffle following Angela Rayner's departure
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Delivering his verdict on the new appointments, Mr Goodwin told GB News: "This is the week in which both of the big parties now have fallen below 20 per cent, according to some of the polls, so the combined vote share for what we might call the establishment is collapsing. Reform just peaked 35 per cent.
"I don't think anything in this reshuffle today is going to change the fundamentals. The boats are going to keep coming, the economy is still going to be incredibly weak, and we're not going to solve the housing crisis."
Highlighting Labour's "unwillingness" to "do the difficult stuff" in policy making, Mr Goodwin added: "Labour have shown they're not willing to do the really difficult stuff. Welfare reform didn't happen, they're not going to leave the ECHR, they're not going to detain and deport.
"They're not going to slash taxes across the board if anything, taxes are going to go up. So, putting some of these ministers in a different department is not going to fix any of that."
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| GB NEWSIn a pointed criticism of Yvette Cooper moving to Foreign Secretary, Mr Goodwin argued that she may have the "worst record" of any Home Secretary.
The pollster fumed: "Yvette Cooper will surely go down now in history as the most incompetent, unsuccessful Home Secretary in the history of British politics.
"She's failed on every level of her brief. Hotel use has gone up, small boat numbers have gone up, the cost of the crisis has gone up, and they've just given her another major role in office in the UK state."
Weighing in on Angela Rayner's departure from Government, Mr Goodwin told GB News the ex-Deputy leader was "supported by the taxpayer" in "every level of her career".
Mr Goodwin told GB News that Yvette Cooper could become the 'most unsuccessful Home Secretary in the history of politics'
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He stated: "As Jeremy Clarkson rightly pointed out, Angela Rayner has been supported at every level of her career by the British taxpayer, and the idea that a Housing Minister dodged tax on a house kind of summarises this Government.
"Just like Rushanara Ali, the previous Homelessness Minister, who basically some people might say treated her own housing tenants rather appallingly, or like the Labour Government that took endless freebies from Lord Alli while lecturing everybody about standards in public life. This is the state we're in at the moment."
In her resignation letter, Ms Rayner told the Prime Minister that she "deeply regrets her decision to not seek additional specialist tax advice".
She added: "While the Independent Adviser has concluded that I acted in good faith and with honesty and integrity throughout, I accept that I did not meet the highest standards in relation to my recent property purchase."