Jane Merrick has a post over at The Independent speculating that David Davis could be made shadow defence secretary in the 2009 reshuffle. Certainly, back when Cameron was putting his first shadow cabinet together it was thought that Davis would get either the Home or Defence briefs. But I don’t think Davis will get defence for one of the reasons Jane Merrick thinks he might get it: Afghanistan. (I’d also be surprised if Cameron moved Fox).
Jane Merrick notes that Davis “has been asking a lot of questions in parliament recently about troops in Afghanistan”. But I suspect Tory high command, which thinks about Afghanistan more than any other foreign police issue, would be wary of putting Davis in charge of it given that a few months ago Davis mused to a couple of colleagues that maybe Britain could do no good there and should just get out.
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