Rural affairs don’t tend to be the biggest draw for Labour governments. But Environment Secretary Steve Reed may be counting on a personal trump card to win his department a better deal.
He has an old friend, Labour’s election mastermind Morgan McSweeney, now installed not far away across Whitehall on a mission to end the dysfunction, infighting and hostile briefing that has disfigured Sir Keir Starmer’s first 100 days as PM.
