The reshuffle is finally complete. Here are the changes to government PPS:
David Cameron, Prime Minister: Gavin Williamson
Dominic Grieve, Attorney General: Jessica Lee
David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities: Paul Uppal
Michael Fallon, Minister of State for Energy: Therese Coffey
Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade and Investment: Margot James
Matthew Hancock, Minister of State for Skills : Nicola Blackwood
Grant Shapps, Conservative Party Chairman: Jake Berry
Oliver Letwin, Minister of State for Government Policy: Paul Maynard
Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office: Stuart Andrew
John Hayes, Minister without Portfolio: Mel Stride
Greg Clark, Minister of State for Cities and the Constitution: David Mowat
Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities a: John Glen/Mike Freer
Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State for Faith: Eric Ollerenshaw
Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport: Mary Macleod
Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence: Penny Mordaunt
Mark Francois, Minister of State for the Armed Forces: Damian Hinds
Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for the Environment: David Burrowes
Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education: Ben Gummer
Greg Barker, Minister of State for Climate Change: Laura Sandys
William Hague, Secretary of State for ForeignOffice: Keith Simpson
David Lidington, Minister of State for Europe: Charlie Elphicke
Hugo Swire, Minister of State at the Foreign Office: Richard Graham
Hugh Robertson, Minister of State at the Foreign Office: Simon Kirby
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health: Tobias Ellwood/Andrew Jones
Theresa May, Home Secretary: George Hollingbery
Damian Green, Minister of State for Policing: David Rutley
Mark Harper, Minister of State for Immigration: Guy Opperman
Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Dev: Julian Smith
Alan Duncan, Minister of State for International Dev: Mark Menzies
Chris Grayling, Secretary of State for Justice: Lee Scott
Andrew Lansley, Leader of the House of Commons: John Howell
Lord Hill of Oareford, Leader of the House of Lords: Nigel Adams
Theresa Villiers, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Damian Collins
Andrew Robathan, Minister of State for Northern Ireland: Robin Walker
Patrick McLoughlin, Transport: Iain Stewart/Julian Sturdy
George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer: Rob Wilson
Sajid Javid, Financial Secretary to the Treasury: Marcus Jones
IDS, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Andrew Selous
Mike Penning, Minister of State for Disabled People: Steve Brine
Esther McVey, Minister of State for Employment: Harriet Baldwin
David Jones, Secretary of State for Wales: Daniel Kawczynski
Ken Clarke, Minister without Portfolio: Ben Wallace
Alun Cairns, Andrea Leadsom, Priti Patel, Chris Skidmore and Nadhim Zahawi have all joined the Number 10 Policy Board.
Via ConHome
Read the full transcripts of Jimmy Savile’s 2009 interview with Surrey Police…
…over on Media Guido.
Savile in his own words. Chilling…
Proof that a Westminster parking warden will try and ticket literally anyone. Even Hillary Clinton.
Cllr Daniel Astaire, Westminster City Council cabinet member for business, told the Mail:
‘Despite our traffic marshal being questioned by the secret service for just doing his job, he was in the right. The former US Secretary of State was parked for nearly 45 minutes without paying. I’m sure she will understand that we have to be fair to everyone, regardless of their status on the world stage.”
Presumably it will go on the pile along with the £7.2m the US Embassy owes for parking fines and missed congestion charge payments.
It’s hard to summon the invective to describe the nice young regulator who’s going to head up the NHS’s Monitor.
Pleasant, modest Dominic Dunn (£63,000 a year for three days a week) is there to provide another layer of strategic obfuscation in the multi-billion miasma of the NHS.
That’s not written in to his job description but he is certainly an elusive target.
When asked a direct question – is it your job to promote competition in the NHS? – he answered: “Not to promote competition, but to address anti-competitive behaviour.”
Here’s one for the Euro-sceptics. The Attorney General thinks we should stay in the EU for “ethical” reasons. Dominic Grieve was speaking to his legal chums about the EU and the ECHR:
“I hope it is clear that the economic, physical and ethical well-being of the United Kingdom remains rooted in international engagement. We have to play an active part in these organisations.”
That should further endear him to his party.
