Angela Rayner will become deputy prime minister if Labour wins power and will take on the levelling up brief, in a long-awaited shadow cabinet reshuffle that also saw several MPs on the right of the party promoted before the next general election.
In a broad swathe of changes in which MPs on the Blairite wing largely prospered at the expense of those seen as being more on the soft left, Lisa Nandy, the former shadow levelling up secretary, was demoted to the international development brief.
