SIR KEIR STARMER was accused today of doubling down on a failed strategy with his shadow cabinet reshuffle after a disastrous election campaign for Labour last week. 

Left group Momentum criticised the replacement of Anneliese Dodds as shadow chancellor with rightwinger Rachel Reeves, who is notorious for pledging to be “tougher than the Tories” on benefits at the height of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s attacks on the jobless and disabled in 2013.

And former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the Labour leader was trying to make his deputy, Angela Rayner, carry the can by firing her as party chair.