The last throes of Blairism
So a reshuffle, and we wait to find out which bit has been mucked up. Good news is that Clarke is off to the back benches, and Straw has been demoted to Leader of the House. It's hardly a government of all the talents though - Margaret Beckett will be a perfectly good Blairite foreign secretary, which isn't saying much, and John Reid will bring his unique knowledge to the Home Office.Update: Blimey, the Education Secretary has gone too, which clearly is good news in the sense she didn't seem particularly up to the job, and bad news in the sense that the new chap is only going to be around for a year or so as well, and this can't be good for the department. But that applies to all government ministries these days, almost.
Anyway the new Education Secretary is Alan Johnson, so well done to him for leveraging off the various Decency campaigns he has launched to get into such a high office. What is Domain Name Registrars loss is the country's gain.
posted by Matthew @ 5/05/2006 09:58:00 AM
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