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Theresa May’s Botched Cabinet Reshuffle Confirms PM’s Weakness<\/b>
\nReshuffle has chaotic start as Conservative Party accidentally announces Chris Grayling as new chairman on Twitter instead of Brandon Lewis.
\nJustine Greening resigns as education secretary after reportedly turning down move to DWP.
\nJeremy Hunt keeps job as health secretary but takes on extra responsibility for social care.
\nChancellor Philip Hammond, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Brexit Secretary David Davis and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson remain in post.
\nDavid Lidington handed Damian Green\u2019s old job of Cabinet Office minister – but does not inherit first secretary of state title.
\nJames Brokenshire resigns as Northern Ireland secretary due to ill health and is replaced by Karen Bradley.
\nSajid Javid remains communities secretary in a renamed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
\nDavid Gauke appointed justice secretary. Matt Hancock promoted to culture secretary.
\nLiam Fox remains international trade secretary. Chris Grayling stays as transport secretary.\u00a0
\nPenny Mordaunt reappointed as international development secretary. Michael Gove remains environment secretary.
\nAbortion rights campaigners protest appointment of Maria Caulfield in shake-up of CCHQ.
\nOne week into 2018 and Theresa May had clearly been reading all those \u2018New Year! New You!\u2019 magazine features. She wanted to freshen up the image of her Government, promoting talented women<\/a> and minority ethnic MPs, while rewarding quiet competence.<\/p>\n

But so far this isn\u2019t a reshuffle, it\u2019s a re-brand. And a badly botched one at that. Competence seemed far away when the Conservatives themselves wrongly tweeted Chris Grayling had got the party chairman post, for all of 27 seconds. And as for diversity, some of the party vice-chair appointments smacked of tokenism, given none are paid or ministerial posts.<\/p>\n

The first big jobs went to men<\/a>, not women<\/a>. Apart from James Cleverly, the men<\/a> were all white. And Justine Greening\u2019s resignation left the impression that the only person who had been fired was a woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The promotion of media-savvy Brandon Lewis to Tory chairman, and David Lidington\u2019s move to replace Damian Green, were shrewd placements of round pegs in round holes. Yet shifting David Gauke from DWP felt like an error that undermined the idea that political effectiveness should be rewarded. The re-badging of the \u2018Ministry for Housing\u2019 and \u2018Department for Health and Social Care\u2019 also risked the charge this is all about spin not substance.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Hunt\u2019s refusal to budge from Health proves yet again that May lacks even a PM\u2019s usual powers of patronage, adding his \u2018unsackability\u2019 to that of Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond. Changing the Tories\u2019 reputation on the NHS is probably a bigger challenge than getting Brexit right. And it\u2019s far from clear that Hunt will persuade his critics as effectively as he defied the PM today.<\/p>\n

Most reshuffles are remembered, if they are remembered at all, for one memorable moment.\u00a0Theresa May\u2019s January 2017 shake-up is likely to be known for CCHQ\u2019s decision to tweet, and swiftly delete, the appointment of Chris Grayling as party chairman as the job was actually going to Brandon Lewis.\u00a0In a second error, the official No. 10 tweet naming Lewis to the job misspelled \u201cportfolio\u201d.<\/p>\n

While everyone\u2019s eyes were glued to Cabinet ministers walking into No.10 to, mostly, accept the same job they already had, parliament returned from the Christmas recess.<\/p>\n

Conservative health minister Philip Dunne told the Commons there were \u201cseats available in most hospitals where beds are not\u201d for patients who can not be found a bed in an emergency.\u00a0Labour have branded the comment an \u201cappalling and ignorant remark\u201d.<\/p>\n

And the row over Toby Young\u2019s appointment to the new universities regulator shows no sign of going away.\u00a0Tory MP Robert Halfon, the influential chair of the Education Select Committee, said Young had \u201cdark and very dangerous\u201d views on disabilities and working class people.<\/p>\n

W H A T\u00a0 N E X T\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Theresa May will tomorrow move to reshape the more junior ministerial ranks. It has been reported she will promote more women<\/a>, ethnic minority and new Tory MPs in an attempt to refresh her government.
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