A quick reshuffle in Boris Johnson’s government team, in response to the threat that continues to loom over his leadership as a result of the so-called Partygate scandal linked to the investigation into the gatherings organized between 2020 and 2021 in Downing Street in apparent violation of the Covid restrictions then in force.
Prime Minister Tory intervened on some medium-ranking boxes in the Council of Ministers – after the radical reset which he had already been forced to in recent days at the top of his entourage – going to affect in particular the tasks of coordinating the activities of the executive and relations with the parliamentary group: as he had promised to do to the deputies of the majority, to try to stop the bleeding of dissidents who tried to discourage him. The most significant change concerns the promotion of the loyal brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg as a full member of the Cabinet Council and head of the newly formed Ministry for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency (recipient of part of the competences attributed so far to the Minister of ‘Cabinet Office, Steve Barclay, just co-opted into dual role as Downing Street Chief of Staff). And the replacement of him as Leader of the House (Minister of Relations with the House of Commons) with Mark Spencer. The latter in turn leaves the chair of Chief Whip, minister-leader in the classroom responsible for the internal discipline of the majority, to Chris Heaton-Harris, another brexiteer. While among the junior positions stands the appointment of a deputy minister of construction, Stuart Andrew, a Welsh MP and gay activist, in the department for Leveling Up (the relaunch of the most depressed areas) led by Michael Gove since September.
Source: Ansa
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