‘It hurts’: Starmer loyalist Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Bridget Phillipson, the new chair of the Labour party, at the Rape Crisis centre in Cambridge. Photograph: Jill Mead/The GuardianView image in fullscreenBridget Phillipson, the new chair of the Labour party, at the Rape Crisis centre in Cambridge. “Being education secretary was amazing … and I’m really proud of what we achieved in that time.”The former education secretary was removed during Andy Burnham’s clear out of Starmer’s cabinet when he took office last week, and was replaced by Lucy Powell, an ally of the new prime minister.
- ▪Bridget Phillipson, the new chair of the Labour party, at the Rape Crisis centre in Cambridge.
- ▪Photograph: Jill Mead/The GuardianView image in fullscreenBridget Phillipson, the new chair of the Labour party, at the Rape Crisis centre in Cambridge.
- ▪“Being education secretary was amazing … and I’m really proud of what we achieved in that time.”The former education secretary was removed during Andy Burnham’s clear out of Starmer’s cabinet when he took office last week, and was replaced
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Bridget Phillipson, the new chair of the Labour party, at the Rape Crisis centre in Cambridge. Photograph: Jill Mead/The GuardianView image in fullscreenBridget Phillipson, the new chair of the Labour party, at the Rape Crisis centre in Cambridge. Photograph: Jill Mead/The GuardianBridget PhillipsonInterview‘It hurts’: Starmer loyalist Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotionAlexandra Topping Exclusive: The minister for women and equalities has also been handed the role of Labour chair, in a not-so subtle bid to restore unity to Burnham’s governmentWed 29 Jul 2026 09.24 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleIf Bridget Phillipson is angry at losing a job – which, in the brief honeymoon period at the start of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, she called the “honour of my life” – she is…
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