Peerages for Ben Houchen, Kulveer Ranger and Shaun Bailey. Knighthoods for Jacob Rees-Mogg and Simon Clarke. Priti Patel becomes a Dame.
It’s unjust to sack an Minister, rather than suspend him, over unproven claims. Now those against him have been dismissed, he should be restored to government.
He has effectively been treated as being guilty, which he may or may not be, before the claim has been investigated. This offends natural justice.
He says that “I was not given any information about the complaint nor was I asked to. I will fully cooperate with the Party’s enquiry and look forward to clearing my name.”
His expertise and long experience will be useful if the Government does go ahead with triggering Article 16.
And Dorries moves up a rank at the Department of Health to become a Minister of State.
The Parliamentary Commissioner found he had misused his parliamentary privilege, and the Standards Committee accepted the report.
CCHQ itself is also a victim of what it has helped to create. Here’s a way forward that should be acceptable to all.
We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.
His appointments to the Territorial Offices are a mixed bag: Cairns is a welcome retention, Jack a bold but possibly risky change, and Smith another letdown for Ulster.
Also: MPs criticise Foreign Secretary over Ulster veterans; Johnson makes Thomson his Scottish campaign chief; and fierce competition to lead the NIO.
The logic of his position was that the UK was leaving by March 29th. It hasn’t changed. The Government’s has. So he’s gone.
It may have produced Anna Soubry – but it also gave us a mixed cross-section of Tories, including Conor Burns, Esther McVey, Priti Patel and Liz Truss.