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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Gary Gibbon
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Cathy Newman
Do voters care about the feminisation of the front bench?
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.
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Cameron’s big reshuffle: live updates
Live updates from Downing Street as the prime minister reshuffles his cabinet.
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Gary Gibbon
Ken Clarke may be dispensable – but don’t expect him to go quietly
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.
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Michael Crick
Cameron’s pledge on women ministers unlikely to be met
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.
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Gary Gibbon
Knighthoods and sell-offs
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.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron’s reshuffle is for finishers, not visionaries
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.
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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
The government hung by a cashmere thread
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…
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Gary Gibbon
Will Royal Mail ‘slow down’ be enough for rebels?
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…