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Cabinet rehsuffle
With the Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor David Lidington having got a new job at the Cabinet Office today .... it means that there will have been been 6 justice secretaries in less than 8 years -
- Ken Clarke (2 years 4 months)
- Chris Grayling (2 years 8 months)
- Michael Gove (1 year 4 months)
- Liz Truss (11 months)
- David Lidington (6 months).
Sajid Javid, previously Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, becomes Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government!
Jeremy Hunt, previously Secretary of State for Health, becomes Secretary of State for Health and Social Care!
David Gauke moves from Work and Pensions to Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice so we’ll be looking at 5th Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since the beginning of 2016 -
IDS up to March 2016
Stephen Crabb (four months)
Damian Green (twelve months)
David Gauke (seven months)
???
After 2 and a half hours inside No.10 ... Justine Greening was offered and has refused Work and Pensions Secretary role ... and has left the cabinet ...
Work & Pensions Minister Damian Hinds is new Secretary of State for Education, replacing Justine Greening
New Work and Pensions Secretary is Esther McVey ...
“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”
New Work & Pensions Secretary’s voting record on welfare and benefits:
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24882/esther_mcvey/tatton/votes#welfare
Oh no!!
”...because of our welfare-to-work programme, 30 million people are in jobs today….”
”.. will say it again, although I heard no positive sounds from the Labour Benches before: there are 30 million people in work…”
“I will say this again because the Opposition still have not acknowledged it. Thirty million people are in jobs today.
“In the UK, it is right to say that more people are visiting food banks, as we would expect.
Food Banks 1debate 8 December 2013
Sigh…..
Former housing minister Alok Sharma becomes Minister of State for Employment at the DWP ..... and taking his place as housing minster at the new Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is former justice minister Dominic Raab ...
Since Theresa May became PM in July 2016, this will be her third housing minister, her third justice secretary and her third work and pensions secretary ...
Since Theresa May became PM in July 2016, this will be her third housing minister, her third justice secretary and her third work and pensions secretary ...
It’s a shame we can’t change government as easy as she can change her cabinet.
They come and they go (more frequently than ESA/PIP re-assessements) having achieved next to nothing (successfully) - just like ‘welfare (justice / education etc.) reform’ - maybe that’s no coincidence?
Rory Stewart becomes Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice ...
DWP Minister Caroline Dinenage becomes Minister of State at the new Department of Health and Social Care (and is joined by former Economic Secretary at the Treasury Stephen Barclay)
Kit Malthouse becomes DWP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ...
... elsewhere, Lucy Frazer becomes a justice minister and Rishi Sunak joins the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Guardian reporting ‘McVey’s appointment is vindictive’: readers on the Tory reshuffle
The Liverpool Echo (and its Facebook page) not too impressed either
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ester-mcveys-new-job-this-14130138
And (finally?!) Heather Wheeler becomes Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the new Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ..
And so here’s the new full line up at the DWP: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions#ministers
... and here’s how all the other departments have ended up: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-january-2018
A guide to personal development .... “changing your dream into reality”
A guide to personal development .... “changing your dream into reality”
Coming to a jobcentre near you!!!!
Labour has called on Theresa May to rethink the appointment of Esther McVey as work and pensions secretary because McVey was a director of a demolition company served with health and safety prohibition notices, an area covered by her department.
Jack Dromey has been appointed Shadow Minister for Pensions:
http://press.labour.org.uk/post/169625699984/jeremy-corbyn-makes-frontbench-appointments
Acerbic article from Frances Ryan on the appointment of Esther McVey as SoS for W&P.
I’ve spoken to many disabled people who are frightened by McVey’s appointment. That might be hard to understand if you are healthy or on a comfortable wage, but when you rely on social security to eat and pay rent, the DWP minister has power over you. For the families at the sharp end of austerity, McVey represents skipping dinner to pay the bedroom tax or becoming suicidal after losing benefits.
The new work and pensions secretary is an insult to disabled people
So, is the spelling of the title of this thread deliberate or what?
Aha!
We’re the top search result on Google though for ‘rehsuffle’ .... and in good company .... Guardian in 2nd and 3rd places!!