As if anyone needed proof that we have a new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson provided it in Spades yesterday. Harold MacMillan's 'Night of the Long Knives' pales into insignificance alongside Johnson's 'Culling of the Cabinet'.
By my reckoning, only 6 members of Theresa May's Cabinet remain as Cabinet Ministers, 2 others, Michael Gove and Brandon Lewis, being demoted to the position of attendees. Two former attendees, Liz Truss and Julian Smith, have been promoted to full membership while the Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, remains as an attendee. All this carnage results in the most dramatic mid-term Cabinet reshuffle on record and means that around 20 of the 32 men and women who will attend Cabinet in future did not do so last week.
Johnson has set out his stall and shown the world that he is serious about changing things; as new brooms go, his has been shown to have some pretty strong bristles. Whether this will produce the desired outcomes we can only wait to see.
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