Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Theresa May’s ministers make the decisions while the Prime Minister prevaricates

Who is taking all the big, difficult decisions in government at the moment? Not Theresa May, who seems to be caught up in a particularly bad bout of prevarication. Sajid Javid’s announcement today that there will be a review into the use of medicinal cannabis came just 24 hours after his boss said there was a ‘very good reason’ for the current rules being in place. Yesterday May had also tried to block Javid from raising the matter at Cabinet, arguing that it hadn’t been on the agenda.

It’s just one example of Cabinet ministers mounting very public campaigns for a policy change which they then get all the credit for. Jeremy Hunt for instance, campaigned very vocally for more cash for the NHS, which means that even though May did the big announcement herself, the Health Secretary will get the bulk of the political credit.

As I say in tonight’s Evening Blend (our free daily email round-up and analysis of everything going on in Westminster – sign

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