Spelman in the clear

Team Cameron will be delighted with the news that Caroline Spelman is to be cleared of any wrongdoing over the ‘Nannygate’ affair – the Tories can well do without any “sleaze” accusataions being fired in their direction –  and the expectation now is that she’ll be kept in the shadow cabinet, although not necessarily as party chairman.  To my mind, Cameron would be best-advised to move her to an alternative brief.  Although it may have been partially down to the allegations hanging over her, Spelman has been a near-invisible figure over the past year-and-a-half.  And one imagines that any of the names being mooted to succeed her – Eric Pickles, Jeremy Hunt or Chris Grayling – would better fill out the role, whilst maintaining a higher media profile.

P.S. Guido’s got a more forceful take here.