When Parliament returns tomorrow, Theresa May will come back to work to find her position a bit more secure than it was when she left for the summer break. With no obvious leadership challenger and her party vaguely united behind her, May looks safe in No 10 in the coming months – even if her claim that she could lead her party into another election looks dubious at best.
It follows that talk has now turned to how she could shore up her position and assert her authority on her party. The Times reports that the prime minister and her allies are planning to use the threat of a reshuffle to further bolster her authority. There’s talk of an October shuffle but the paper says that this may now be pushed back so that she can be bolder and promote new talent like Tom Tugendhat, Johnny Mercer – and Jacob Rees Mogg.
Last month, I wrote in the magazine
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