Posts Tagged cabinet reshuffle
Revolving door politics?
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Politics on 24/01/2011
Last Thursday Alan Johnson quit front-line politics, and with it his position as shadow chancellor of the exchequer. His replacement by Ed Balls was coupled with a major shadow cabinet reshuffle which saw Douglas Alexander becoming shadow foreign secretary, Liam Byrne becoming shadow work and pensions secretary, Tessa Jowell becoming the shadow Cabinet Office minister and Balls’ wife Yvette Cooper becoming shadow home secretary.
Caught in the crossfire
Posted by Pete Quentin in Uncategorized on 27/10/2008
In an interview with The Sunday Times, the new Defence Secretary, John Hutton, has backed the creation of a European fighting force, writes Judith Gollata,