If the Prime Minister doesn’t have confidence in his most senior Ministers, it’s impossible to see how anyone else can.
The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
Which former aide turned down a peerage? See text (and picture left).
The long-serving adviser to Eric Pickles is to join the team at the heart of the Government.
On polling day, we honour the unknown heroes of this government – the Special Advisers, without whom little of what has been done would have been done.
The governing duopoly of the Prime Minister and Chancellor should be replaced by a collegiate top team – including the present ’22 Chairman as a new Chief Whip.
In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.