Rishi Sunak this morning embarked on a minor reshuffle of his cabinet as he restructures several Whitehall departments. Today’s cabinet meeting has been pushed back from this morning to mid-afternoon so as to allow for the changes to take place. In a sign of Sunak’s reluctance to ruffle feathers among Tory MPs, no sackings took place. Instead the focus was on rearranging government departments and then matching them largely with serving ministers.
This could make the government run more efficiently and help Sunak point to delivery by the next election
The most pressing matter, however, was the vacancy of party chairman after Sunak removed Zahawi from his cabinet over his tax affairs after an independent adviser found he had failed to declare the details of the HMRC investigation he was subject to. Rather than a firebrand candidate such as Priti Patel or Kemi Badenoch, Sunak has appointed Greg Hands as the new party chairman.
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