
Johnson’s ministerial appointments
We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.
We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.
He resigned in December over Brexit, but has now been promoted from PPS to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.
The Prime Minister has started filling some of the extraordinary number of vacancies in her ministry we identified this morning.
Plus: What it was like being gay and a Tory – and being sexually assaulted in the “Brief Encounter” – during the vanished world of the 1990s.
Numbers 10 and 11 say that she attacked Duncan Smith without their approval. They can prove it by removing her as Pensions Minister.
Opposed by Clarke and Heseltine, supported by Lilley and Portillo and backed by John Major as Prime Minister, it was the former Tory leader’s “proudest achievement”.
It deserves to be honoured as part of the great tradition of Conservative social reforming legislation.
Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.
Ed Miliband said last month that the council leader is doing a very good job. He was absolutely right. But he was not aware that the leader in question is a Tory.
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