Oh dear. With each day that passes, it gets clearer that Brown’s June reshuffle may cause him more trouble than it’s worth. For instance, this passage from today’s Mail caught my eye:
“A senior Labour figure said: ‘You can’t plan a reshuffle around those who have transgressed on their expenses because that would quickly involve a whole lot of people.’ Mr Darling is also resisting any attempt to move him amid Whitehall talk that the PM would like to replace him with his most trusted ally Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband is fighting for his job behind the scenes in the face of a campaign by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who has long dreamed of taking his post.
An ally of Mr Miliband added: ‘David doesn’t want to move and he’s not the only one.’
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