Theresa May Starts to Reshuffle U.K. Cabinet
- 6 years ago
Theresa May Starts to Reshuffle U.K. Cabinet
It’s 4.30pm and we only have one Cabinet change so far and a new acronym for one department
You might almost say, almost ’nothing has changed’ (so far) One minister who did leave the cabinet was James Brokenshire, who resigned as secretary of state for Northern Ireland for medical reasons, telling Mrs. May in a letter
that he needed surgery to remove a small lesion in his right lung.
Now you see it, now you don’t - here’s the Grayling tweet announcing him as party chairman
that has since been deleted... pic.twitter.com/UG5Fcmc6yg A later announcement of Brandon Lewis’s appointment as the new Conservative Party chairman, replacing Patrick McLoughlin, was not problem free, either.
And, despite her intention to focus more on domestic matters, the next 12 months are likely to be dominated by negotiations with
the European Union, leaving ministers with little time or energy to tackle issues like health, transportation and housing.
Worse, Mrs. May’s reshuffle got off to an unfortunate start when her Conservative Party’s
Twitter account announced the appointment of Chris Grayling as party chairman.
The most senior figures in Mrs. May’s cabinet, including the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson,
and the chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, kept their jobs in the shake-up, despite calls for them to be moved or dismissed.
It’s 4.30pm and we only have one Cabinet change so far and a new acronym for one department
You might almost say, almost ’nothing has changed’ (so far) One minister who did leave the cabinet was James Brokenshire, who resigned as secretary of state for Northern Ireland for medical reasons, telling Mrs. May in a letter
that he needed surgery to remove a small lesion in his right lung.
Now you see it, now you don’t - here’s the Grayling tweet announcing him as party chairman
that has since been deleted... pic.twitter.com/UG5Fcmc6yg A later announcement of Brandon Lewis’s appointment as the new Conservative Party chairman, replacing Patrick McLoughlin, was not problem free, either.
And, despite her intention to focus more on domestic matters, the next 12 months are likely to be dominated by negotiations with
the European Union, leaving ministers with little time or energy to tackle issues like health, transportation and housing.
Worse, Mrs. May’s reshuffle got off to an unfortunate start when her Conservative Party’s
Twitter account announced the appointment of Chris Grayling as party chairman.
The most senior figures in Mrs. May’s cabinet, including the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson,
and the chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, kept their jobs in the shake-up, despite calls for them to be moved or dismissed.