It's time for a reshuffle for Sunak and Starmer alike

It is a sunny bank holiday in happy England and party leaders, like the rest of the country, are enjoying some well-earned time off. There is, however, no rest for columnists, or indeed the newspapers they write for. The news never sleeps and so we cannot stop filing

- MARIE LE CONTE

Well, this is only partially true: the news has, in the case of this weekend, more or less stopped altogether. Parliament is in recess and everyone is focusing on the Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby drama over at ITV. Westminster is eerily quiet.

It feels like a good excuse to turn to the near future, and wonder what our politicians ought to be doing in the coming weeks and months. There is little that Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have in common and, due to their respective jobs, there are few pieces of advice that can feasibly apply to the both of them.

Still, they are united in one way: both the Labour Party and the Conservatives should be reshuffling their top teams sooner rather than later. In the opposition’s corner, the pitch is pretty straightforward.