Size:
Old Cabinet 23, new Cabinet: 22
Women:
Old Cabinet 8, new Cabinet 5
Scots:
Old Cabinet 5, new Cabinet 4
Ministers over 60:
Old Cabinet 5, new Cabinet 1
Ministers under 40:
Old Cabinet 2, new Cabinet 5
Average age:
Old Cabinet 54, new Cabinet 49
Sacked, resigned or demoted: 10
OLD FACES, NEW JOBS
Prime minister: Gordon Brown
Chancellor: Alistair Darling
Foreign Secretary: David Miliband
Home Secretary: Jacqui Smith
Health: Alan Johnson
Justice: Jack Straw
Environment: Hilary Benn
Defence and Scotland: Des Browne
Int Development: Douglas Alexander
Transport: Ruth Kelly
Wales/Work and Pensions: Peter Hain
Business and enterprise: John Hutton
Communities: Hazel Blears
Olympics minister (attending Cabinet when needed): Tessa Jowell
NEW ARRIVALS
Commons leader: Harriet Harman
Chief Whip: Geoff Hoon
Innovation, universities and skills: John Denham
Lords leader: Baroness Ashton
Attorney General (attending Cabinet when necessary): Baroness Scotland
Culture: James Purnell
Schools and children: Ed Balls
Northern Ireland: Shaun Woodward
Chief secretary to the Treasury: Andy Burnham
Cabinet office minister/Duchy of Lancaster: Ed Miliband
Housing minister (attending Cabinet when needed): Yvette Cooper
Children and youth justice (attending Cabinet when necessary): Beverley Hughes
Africa, Asia and UN (attending Cabinet when necessary): Lord Malloch Brown
Lords chief whip (attending Cabinet when necessary): Lord Grocott
LEAVING CABINET
Tony Blair
John Prescott
John Reid
Margaret Beckett
Patricia Hewitt
Stephen Timms
Lord Goldsmith
Hilary Armstrong
Lord Falconer
Baroness Amos
Ian McCartney
John Prescott
John Reid
Margaret Beckett
Patricia Hewitt
Stephen Timms
Lord Goldsmith
Hilary Armstrong
Lord Falconer
Baroness Amos
Ian McCartney
6 comments:
Well, our cabinet hasn't been red for quite some time! The TRP missing Blair already?
"god" forbid! blair is one of the biggest political disappointments of the last decade, i wish him well in jerusalm but i fear that hitting 2 pigeons with a stone may be reversed, the locals will hit a pigeon with two stones.
Putting Blair in the Middle East is like appointing Le Pen as chief of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance.
Unless Blair commits to years out of the limelight, patiently listening to people who know what they're talking about, it'll be a disaster. He should do a Bonino: disappear for a while, live in the Middle East, learn Arabic etc
to do a bonino would imply, not only disappear (to study arabic) for a while, but also to radically change the approach to the subject.
2 people 2 states is not the solution and this is what tony and the quartet are pursuing
Our Tony has done his fair share of u-turns, so it shouldn't be hard for him!
Re: "two states" - at his final PMQ he reaffirmed this would be his approach. Let's hope the Quartet shafts him enough to force Blair to adopt a different personal strategy.
well to the best of my knowledge the quartet share the 2-state approach
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