May 10, 2005

Michael Howard Reshuffles the Shadow Cabinet

He's put together an awfully appealing team, or at least a team with a lot of potential. We'll see if whomever will soon replace him as party leader can equal this feat.

George Osborne, 33, is the new Shadow Chancellor (cue the spooky music). The party's other 30-something star of tomorrow today, David Cameron, is taking over at Education. Former Shadow Foreign Secretary Michael Ancram (an Earl and the heir to the 12th Marquess of Lothian) shifts to take over Defence. Malcolm Rifkind, the new MP from Kensington and Chelsea and a former Cabinet official - including Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary - under Prime Ministers Thatcher and Major, gets the choice job of shadowing the newly rehabilitated David Blunkett at Work and Pensions. And Francis Maude replaces Liam Fox as Party Secretary (Fox becomes Shadow Foreign Minister).

Posted by armand at May 10, 2005 01:07 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs


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