GAUCHE: RESHUFFLE NOTES

4 September 2012

RESHUFFLE NOTES

This is not a very exciting reshuffle. But:

Jeremy Hunt has been moved from culture to minimise the damage of Leveson.

Ken Clarke has been kicked upstairs to appease the Tory right.

Sayeeda Warsi has been shifted to a non-job under William Hague at the FCO because the experiment of having a Pakistani as national spokeswoman didn’t go down well with racist white voters.

The awful Justine Greening has been fired to teach Boris Johnson a lesson on airports

That's it.

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