Adrian Delia is considering a shadow Cabinet reshuffle, he told reporters on Friday, days after Prime Minister Robert Abela unveiled a Cabinet of “new blood”.

"Yes I'm considering it", he told MaltaToday on Friday, adding that the decision to reshuffle was his prerogative as Opposition leader but that it could also ensure that every person in the PN parliamentary group was best utilised.

"It's not just a matter of reacting to what the government is doing," he insisted. 

Dr Abela made several changes to Cabinet when he unveiled his 26-person team on Wednesday, reassigning many portfolios and handing some young faces their first-ever portfolios as ministers or junior ministers. 

Dr Delia's acknowledgment that he is thinking of reassigning responsibilities to his MPs also comes as his predecessor as leader, Simon Busuttil, prepares to leave Malta's parliament to take up a top job in Brussels. 

Dr Delia has had a fractious relationship with Dr Busuttil and some of his other MPs and has at times struggled to assert his leadership of the PN. 

Last summer, he fended off a challenge to his leadership when he won a vote of confidence with 67 per cent of the vote. 

On Friday, the Opposition leader insisted that he was not facing internal pressure to implement changes within the party.

"Absolutely not. That issue is a case closed... We now need to work harder than ever before to ensure the best for our country," he said.