Gary Gibbon
Labour reshuffle: waiting for Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn wants to avoid repeating the excruciating experience of Hilary Benn being applauded by Tories
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Tory polling failure: Blame ‘the captain of the ship’, says former MP Dorries
Earlier we spoke to her and began by asking what proof she had that Rishi Sunak was at the heart of it all.
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Sajid Javid appointed Home Secretary after Windrush scandal
Early this morning, Sajid Javid became Britain’s first Muslim Home Secretary. Theresa May conducted a hurried mini-reshuffle after Amber Rudd finally gave in to calls for her resignation over the Windrush scandal. The final straw proved to be her ignorance of Home Office targets for deporting illegal immigrants.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: has Cameron solved the ‘women problem’?
The claim “If elected, by the end of our first Parliament I want a third of all my ministers to be female.” David Cameron, 30 April 2009 The background Critics have called it the Conservatives’ “women problem”. A failure to promote women to top cabinet posts, and fears that the Tories are losing the female…
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Gary Gibbon
Cabinet reshuffle: Gove clipped, women in
Education Secretary Michael Gove is to become the new chief whip in the most wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle of David Cameron’s premiership.
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Gary Gibbon
Cabinet reshuffle: William Hague quits
William Hague stands down as foreign secretary and will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street confirms.
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Victoria Macdonald
A tricky task for the new care minister
Norman Lamb, who is the new Minister for Care Services, has a difficult job. How will the government find the £2bn that it will cost to implement the recommendations in the Dilnot Commission report?
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Victoria Macdonald
Lansley brought down by love of unsexy detail
Andrew Lansley’s obsession with the finer details of health policy could explain his unwanted shuffle away from the Department of Health, Victoria Macdonald writes.
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Gary Gibbon
The meaning of Ken
Some will see David Cameron’s attempt to tame Ken Clarke in the reshuffle with a cabinet seat a score in the “mouse” column in the “man or mouse” debate, Gary Gibbon writes.
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Gary Gibbon
‘Nothing will change my mind’. Really, Mr Clegg?
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues