Who is going to be your Shadow Chancellor?
I've followed the Tory leadership election probably a tad more than the average person, but two tads less than the average blogger. So I could be wrong when I say that none of the candidates appear to have said who'll be in their Shadow Cabinet. In American politics a lot of attention is paid to the choice of Vice-President, even if in reality it matters only sometimes. A parliamentary system is not the same as a Presidential one, and in a party of less than 200 MPs clearly there is not a great deal of uncertainty over who will fill the positions, if not perhaps the specific positions.But any ideas? Presumably George Osbourne will be David Cameron's Chancellor*, though if he's got any sense above that silver spoon of his he'll look over the Despatch Box and choose someone less ambitious. But Ken Clarke's? Or David Davis's? Will they give Cameron a job? And where does John Redwood fit in?
* Politically however one wonders how this would play. Two very rich and privileged (Osbourne in particular) 30-somethings thinking of introducing a tax that benefits the rich and privileged at the expense of the 90% of the population strikes me as a bit of a disaster.
posted by Matthew @ 10/12/2005 10:30:00 AM
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