Cabinet reshuffle: Boris Johnson’s team includes new faces

London: The Brexit cabinet has been replaced by a Build Back Better cabinet, if folks were wondering what Boris Johnson has been planning, it is his legacy. Johnson’s legacy revolves around two parts—Part 1 is that the Brexit is more or less accomplished, the less is Northern Ireland; Part 2 is the array of the electoral reforms in progress.
Let us take a look at the cabinet that will implement these domestic reforms. New Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is a career politician and somewhat of a chameleon, a former Liberal Democrat activist, and Remainer Truss is now being hailed an alternative to Margaret Thatcher. Her belief in free markets and her spectacular success in securing trade agreements across the world has made her top of the cabinet secretary polls, Truss is still a liberal and as the Minister for Women and Equalities, she will develop the PM’s Levelling-up agenda including the UK’s first-ever global LGBT conference to tackle inequality around the world. During the “golden era” pre-2015 Truss was pro-China visiting twice, since 2019 she has become more hawkish about human rights and values versus human rights in supply chains. Truss’s recent international experience will stand her in good stead at the FCDO, her priorities will be US, Russia, and China relationships and her appointment will bring closure to the Dominic Raab Afghanistan debacle.
Raab negotiated the sop of Deputy Prime Minister to compliment his transfer to Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, displacing the hard-working but discreet Robert Buckland. Raab is expertly qualified to take on the ECHR as he has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge in Jurisprudence; he is known not to be a fan of the Human Rights Act.
Michael Gove has been in the gossip columns recently but this does not detract from the serious and cerebral capacity he has as a politician, Gove’s influence is pervasive whatever he is in charge of. Now SoS of Housing (he has form here, he was Shadow Minister for Housing in 2005), after endless studies, assessments, and policy adjustments Gove is likely to deliver what the Red Wall needs, affordable housing that complements the green agenda.
Gove also has form in Scotland and the PM is relying on him to save the Union, it is reported that Gove intends to scrap David Cameron’s ‘English Votes for English Laws’. Gove is a tireless individual and transforms whatever department he operates in.
Iraq-born Nadim Zahawi’s effective vaccine roll-out program has rewarded him with Education SoS, he is a good communicator and organiser, co-founder of YouGov the international internet-based market research firm, and the first non-white Education Secretary. A chemical engineer, he previously has been on many Select Committees, advised No10 on apprenticeships, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education from Jan 2018 to July 2019. Education’s previous incumbent who was in charge during the Covid exam circus is not expected to sit quietly on the back-benches.
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