Former head of the Crown Prosecution Service Sir Keir Starmer is being tipped to replace Andy Burnham as shadow home secretary.
The barrister and Holborn & St Pancras MP had been working as a junior shadow Home Office Minister under Mr Burnham, though quit in June in the mass resignations over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
However he is now expected to return to the shadow front bench and his legal background and work on Labour’s immigration policy is said to make him a good fit for Mr Corbyn, despite him only being an MP for just over a year.
Mr Burnham resigned yesterday at party conference to focus full-time on his campaign to become the elected mayor of Greater Manchester.
Today the New Statesman reported that Shami Chakrabarti, who recently became a Labour peer and chaired the party’s anti-Semitism inquiry, is set to become shadow attorney general.
The barrister and former Liberty director would move into the position occupied previously by Karl Turner, who resigned in June.
It was also speculated at the Labour Party conference that former shadow housing minister John Healey will make a return to the shadow front bench.
He also resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s team as part of the mass walkouts staged after the sacking of Hilary Benn.
Labour challenger Owen Smith, former shadow work and pensions secretary, has ruled out working under Mr Corbyn again.
