Heaton-Harris was appointed to rescue the Government’s whipping operation. The last 48 hours have not suggested that is going well.
Andrew is Housing Minister, Cleverly Europe Minister and Ellis and Wheeler move to the Cabinet Office.
The Transport Secretary has set up a reform committee which is getting ready to use the pandemic to rout the Luddites in the rail unions.
A new economic zone should have its own planning and development policies – with the potential to become a manufacturing powerhouse.
CCHQ itself is also a victim of what it has helped to create. Here’s a way forward that should be acceptable to all.
Since the Government believes the Yellowhammer leak details are out of date, it should publish an up-to-date assessment as soon as possible.
We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.
Leadsom threw such caution to the winds and promised Britain will leave the EU on 31st October.
He takes over the role vacated by Heaton-Harris, who resigned yesterday over Theresa May’s decision to reach out to Jeremy Corbyn.
It is a telling sign that several PPS positions – usually the first step on the ladder for ambitious MPs – have gone unfilled since November.
He praises the work done by civil servants to prepare for exit without a deal – and suggests the Prime Minister has not been fully informed of their progress.
Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?
“There’s a huge amount of activity,” Heaton-Harris tells Sky News, rejecting Baker’s criticism.
Downing Street sends a not-very-subtle message in its choice of successors in the mini-reshuffle.