Reshuffle
A New Labour restoration
To understand the political journey of Sir Keir Starmer, look to Liz Kendall. This week the Blairite and one-time leadership…
Backbencher’s notebook
Politicians are supposed to have a survival instinct. Mine didn’t kick in last week, so I had no idea that…
Does Liz Truss have what it takes to be Foreign Secretary?
In the dying days of Theresa May’s benighted premiership I spotted a long-serving Tory MP on the same weekend train…
Boris Johnson’s government shake-up continues
After a rather quiet day, the reshuffle is back on, and Boris Johnson is proving to be even more brutal…
Johnson’s reshuffle rumours won’t go away
When Boris Johnson was asked at today’s Covid press conference whether he could rule out an imminent cabinet reshuffle, he…
Is Boris weaponising reshuffle rumours?
Parliament is back today and the Prime Minister is facing an autumn filled with problems. Boris Johnson had hoped to…
What will the next reshuffle look like?
Following reports over the weekend that Boris Johnson has threatened to demote Rishi Sunak to health secretary, Downing Street has today…
Will Boris come to regret his Treasury power grab?
Has Boris Johnson made the first major error of his premiership? Choosing his adviser over his Chancellor could be seen…
Diary
Whatever you do, don’t allow your six-year-old to be caught short at Crewkerne station. With the rain pouring and the…
Corbyn is untouchable now
There have been few more pathetic displays of political impotence than the tweets sent by shadow cabinet members paying tribute…
Letters
Give the women a chance Sir: Melissa Kite’s article about the reshuffle seems downright unfair (‘A misogynistic reshuffle’, 19 July). Whatever…
Portrait of the week
Home In a ministerial reshuffle, William Hague, who promised to leave Parliament at the election, was made Leader of the…
Barometer
What Germans do worst Some things Germans aren’t very good at: — Making reliable car engines. According to a survey by Warranty Direct…
The Spectator’s Notes
This must be the worst reshuffle since Mrs Thatcher demoted Geoffrey Howe in 1989. Unlike that one, its errors are…
Cameron was right to move Gove
I tried to reach Michael Gove on Tuesday shortly after the news broke that he’d been moved to the Whips’…
Dickensian misery at the pawnbrokers’ — but now it’s on the other side of the counter
While attention has focused on the sudden ubiquity and alleged iniquity of payday lenders, boom and impending bust has infected…
