Rachel Reeves is to be Labour’s new shadow chancellor as Anneliese Dodds becomes party chair in Keir Starmer’s reshuffle of his top team in the wake of the Hartlepool election defeat.

Ms Dodds was sacked from the party’s top economics job after just a year, but will chair a review of Labour policy ordered by Starmer.

Deputy leader Angela Rayner, who was removed on Saturday as chair and campaign coordinator, takes on a new role as shadow secretary of state for the future of work and will also shadow Michael Gove and take on the title shadow first secretary.

Veteran MP Nick Brown – who served in both the Blair and Brown governments – was replaced as chief whip by his former deputy Alan Campbell.

But in a relatively limited shake-up of the shadow cabinet, Lisa Nandy keeps her foreign affairs brief, Jonathan Ashworth remains at health and Nick Thomas-Symonds at home affairs. All three had been subject to speculation they would be moved.