David Cameron has embarked on his first reshuffle of the
cabinet since the coalition took office in 2010. Currently nobody knows exactly
who has been fired, hired or moved, all we know is that it is a very extensive reshuffle
that only excludes those in the highest office. The Home Secretary, Teresa May,
Foreign Secretary William Hague, the chancellor George Osborne, the deputy
Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the business secretary Vince Cable are all
supposed to be safe. David Cameron has seriously reduced flexibility compared
with previous Prime Ministers as he is part of a coalition. For all his ideas
he will have to consult the leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg and that
makes everything more difficult.
There are certain people that the press think are people to
watch. David Laws, the Liberal Democrat MP who resigned two years ago will
likely return to the cabinet. Other people currently in the cabinet, health
secretary Andrew Lansley and Culture, Media and Sports secretary Jeremy Hunt,
are ones that many believe will be given less senior positions or fired from
the cabinet altogether. Both have received much negative attention in the
press. Lansley presided over the NHS reforms which have an approval rating of
less than 10% and have seriously damaged the government. Hunt is thought to be
far too close to the Murdochs, and the fact that he was handed the BSkyB
decision angered a lot of people who felt he was far too biased to make a good
decision.
I’ll be better able to report on what Cameron has done later
tomorrow as news come on. The government drastically needs a revitalisation if
they are to win the next election; the current polls suggest that it will take
a lot more than a reshuffle to do that, but a comeback must start somewhere.
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| David Laws would be a good choice for government unity as he is viewed as a centre-right Liberal Democrat |
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