Meanwhile Penny Mordaunt overleaps Kemi Badenoch to take top billing after being front and centre in the row over Speaker Hoyle a couple of weeks ago.
ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
If you bluntly tell your officials to do their jobs, you are accused of bullying; if, like Braverman, you are by nature polite, you find yourself undermined in other ways.
“Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall; And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.”
“I made the decision I made for reasons that were personal to me – there was a fundamental difference of economic policy… What happened thereafter was not my doing.”
The Scottish Secretary, understated in his public utterances, “often makes the wittiest interjections in Cabinet discussions”.
I’ll be looking at these changes mainly through four lenses: balance, experience, capacity and authority. Who did each member vote for? What experience do they have? How able are they – and who turned down a job?
Robert Buckland, Greg Clark, James Cleverly and Andrew Stephenson come in. The latter joins Ben Elliot as Conservative Party Chairman.
It may be that there’s one between more frequent ballots and a higher threshold – a quarter of the Parliamentary Party, say, rather than 15 per cent.
It is important not to mistake the salience of high-profile controversies as a sign that the system is failing; indeed it often is the exact opposite. As a sign of the effectiveness of the current regime, look no further than the premiership of Boris Johnson.