As promised, Chris Bryant’s Standards Committee has come out with a nine-point list to clean up Parliament’s standards rules. Here’s Guido’s precis for co-conspirators:

1. An outright ban on Members providing paid parliamentary advice, consultancy or strategy services
2. MPs must have a written contract for any outside work, explicitly saying they cannot lobby
3. Clarifying the “serious wrong exemption” rule in the lobbying code
4. Double the six-month limit on reward or consideration restrictions in the lobbying rules to 12 months
5. Encouraging MPs to seek expert advice before acting, meaning they cannot ‘accidentally’ breach the code of conduct
6. Ending the ministerial exemption to register gifts and hospitality
7. Improve the transparency and searchability of the register
8. Adding a new code of conduct rule banning MPs from subjecting anyone to “unreasonable and excessive personal attack”
9. Adding an 8^th principle to the public life principles – “Respect”

This last one is already facing significant opposition from MPs…

The JCVI has announced that booster jabs will become available for all 18-39 year olds who received their second jab at least three months ago. The rollout will still prioritise age and underlying conditions. 12-15 year olds will also be eligible for their second jab at least three months after their first…

Magdalena Andersson has been reappointed as Sweden’s Prime Minister, having stood down seven hours after acquiring the accolade as the country’s first female PM last Thursday following the collapse of her coalition. The country’s first female Prime Minister has managed to also steal the title of its second…

SNP MP John Nicholson batted away claims that his party colleagues are considering replacing Nicola Sturgeon on Politics Live this morning:

“I’ve heard absolutely nothing[…] I think she’s an enormous asset. She’s head and shoulders above our competition, and people like her in Scotland […] It’s not true, I have not had a single conversation with any other MP about a successor.”

Sturgeon herself has insisted she intends to serve a full five-year term, and has no plans to step down. At any rate, it’d be rude to claim otherwise amid Labour’s reshuffle. Save it for later, John…

And so it’s begun:

19.41: Ed Miliband shifted down to climate and net zero after major disagreements with Starmer over energy nationalisation
19.41: Jonathan Reynolds gets Shadow Business Secretary
19.29: Jon Ashworth demoted to shadow DWP
19.29: Pat McFadden gets Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
19.28: Lisa Nandy gets slight demotion to shadow Gove at levelling up, though she’ll be on more familiar ground
19.28: Lucy Powell promoted to shadow DCMS
19.28: Steve Reed shifted to shadow Justice Secretary
19.29: Thornberry demoted to shadow Attorney General
19.29: Lammy promoted to Shadow Foreign Sec
19.28: Bridget Phillipson appointed to Education
19.28: Wes Streeting gets Health
18:11: Yvette Cooper gets Shadow Home Secretary. Will take a £15,000 pay cut stepping down from chairing the home affairs select committee…
16.44: Nick Thomas-Symonds shifted to shadow trade
14.19: Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green out
13.25: Jo Stevens demoted from Shadow DCMS to Shadow Welsh Secretary
11.57: Shadow Secretary of state for Young People and Democracy, and left-winger, Cat Smith has confirmed she’s left the Shadow Cabinet, partly over Corbyn’s suspension. She specifies Starmer did ask her to continue in the job.

#StayTuned…

Rayner reacting to the news of Starmer’s ongoing reshuffle:

“I don’t know the details of any reshuffle – I’ve been concentrating on the job that I’m doing…Six months ago I said again we need some consistency in how we’re approaching things and I want us to be seen as a government in waiting”. 

While some claim Rayner and her team have been totally blindsided by LOTO, Guido is being heavily briefed by other shadow cabinet sources denying this. One tells Guido she is just “desperately trying to confect a row” – she knew about both the timing and reshuffle herself, having been “pushing [it] for months”. Just this morning on Times Radio she said “I reckon that Keir would tell me first”. Popcorn supplies running dangerously low in SW1…