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Labour reshuffle: waiting for Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn wants to avoid repeating the excruciating experience of Hilary Benn being applauded by Tories
Jeremy Corbyn wants to avoid repeating the excruciating experience of Hilary Benn being applauded by Tories
The government is selling today’s reshuffle as an advance for women. But talking to voters, I found that few cared whether their politicians are male or female, young or old.
Live updates from Downing Street as the prime minister reshuffles his cabinet.
Kenneth Clarke’s “retirement” from in the latest reshuffle will not have been voluntary. Meanwhile, Mr Cameron is likely to honour a pledge to give women a third of government jobs.
David Cameron seems, in effect, to have ditched his long-held pledge that one third of the members of his government will be women by the end of this parliament.
Did the handing out of honours to former ministers departing the government as a result of the reshuffle follow a tacit ‘tariff’ wonders Gary Gibbon.
When David Cameron met Iain Duncan Smith last night he told him that he wanted him to deploy the visionary creative genius he’d shown at DWP at the Department of Justice.
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.
So Gordon Brown is through this storm. And he has Peter Mandelson to thank for it. For one moment on Thursday night, the government hung by a cashmere thread. But Peter Mandelson rallied David Miliband, the moment of maximum danger passed. The Prime Minister is a weakened figure sitting in the Cabinet this morning. He…
The reshuffle has resumed! No, not the Cabinet – that’s fixed, for now. It’s the junior ranks. Some scope here for another walkout or two… but not any household names. Gordon Brown’s first response to the abysmal results last night is to shore up support on the left of the parliamentary party. They – most…