Samuel Horti @SamuelHortiPW 1h1 hour ago Just been told by govt source that every single Downing Street adviser has gone. "It's pretty drastic. There's a lot of expertise [there]"
If you're going to do it, better it be done immediately.
Is Cameron pinching the best ones for his new foundation?
If Boris is Home Secretary, I'll believe that May really wants to kill off his political career.
If he wants to be taken seriously, then he'll have to prove himself.
He put himself out there as a more suitable PM than Theresa - now is his chance to put the hard work in to prove he's up to it.
It would hardly be an unfair appointment.
Yep, I agree. Personally, I think Boris at the Home Office (if true) will be sheer comedy. Another PBer said the best job for Boris would be Culture Secretary: I agree that he'd feel most comfortable there.
Lots of speculation about what Theresa's speech means. Frankly I doubt her rhetoric now will translate into much more than continued tinkering at the edges à la Cameron, the only thing that came across clearly from it was a kind of bland centrism; not necessarily a bad thing but she won't be a radical or serious reformer of any kind.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
I thought you needed to be in an affiliated union for 12 months so how does that work?
Samuel Horti @SamuelHortiPW 1h1 hour ago Just been told by govt source that every single Downing Street adviser has gone. "It's pretty drastic. There's a lot of expertise [there]"
If you're going to do it, better it be done immediately.
Is Cameron pinching the best ones for his new foundation?
@allisonpearson: May I be the first to point out that Philip May, the PM's consort, is a dead ringer for Arthur Askey. For younger followers: a comedian.
Ay-Thang-Yew!
And Askey was a brilliant comedian for his time and decade 1934 -1945
Trump moving in. I'm back into a 4 figure cashout situation.
There's speculation on PEC [not at all a Trump-friendly site] that there's been a genuine shift to him, and he could be ahead in a week or two.
He certainly continues to outperform in the swing-states, as I have noted for several months. A popular vote win for the Crooked One, but an EC loss also remains far more likely than the reverse.
The EC favours the Democrats at the moment, even if Trump wins Ohio and Florida, Hillary could still win if she wins Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania. Romney was much closer to Obama in the popular vote than in the EC
Some members of the new cabinet will have more in common with John Major's generation of cabinet ministers than Cameron and Osborne's. Hammond and May are only slightly younger than Michael Portillo, John Redwood, Stephen Dorrell, Michael Forsyth, David Mellor.
Lots of speculation about what Theresa's speech means. Frankly I doubt her rhetoric now will translate into much more than continued tinkering at the edges à la Cameron, the only thing that came across clearly from it was a kind of bland centrism; not necessarily a bad thing but she won't be a radical or serious reformer of any kind.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
I thought you needed to be in an affiliated union for 12 months so how does that work?
Yesterday I suggested Boris might get defence, turns out he gets foreign! Really impressed by that, he did a lot of trade negotiations abroad and diplomacy while London Mayor and can see him being suited to this role. Thank God it wasn't Home Secretary. Poor old George!
Expect a big kerfuffle about a new hereditary peerage in the Resignation Honours...
But the successor wouldn't get to sit in the Lords - unless elected at a Hereditary by-election.
Even newly minted hereditaries can't sit. When the 99 Act was passed the hereditaries which were the first holders of their title were offered life peerages.
Who was left by then? There can't have been many first generation hereditaries still alive by 1999, given I think there were only four or five after 1965 and only 1 after 1979.
Quite a few royal ones, I think one actually took a life peerage, maybe the husband of Margaret? Caused a bit of a stir.
Royal peers don't sit in the Lords, although those ennobled to marry female ones (Linley, Snowden) presumably can. Were they the ones?
Edit - do I mean Linley? What was Mark Philips created?
No, they cannot automatically - Royal peers have hereditary peerages and so would need to be elected in a hereditary peer by-election.
I meant before 1999! That was the point of the original comment.
Yes, they could (including the Prince of Wales & Earl of Chester) though I don't believe did.
It's a bit like how the Queen could vote in a general election, but doesn't for constitutional convention reasons.
Since 1964 there have been three non-Royal hereditary peerages created:
1983 - Viscount Tonypandy - Former speaker George Thomas - Extinct childless 1983 - Viscount (Willie) Whitelaw - Extinct because he had no son and there wasn't a special remainder for his eldest daughter to inherit the title. 1984 - Earl of Stockton - Former PM Harold McMillan - Title inherited by his Grandson who was already a Viscount.
Peers of the first creation are allowed to sit and vote in the HoL regardless of rank.
Incidentally there has only been one Baronetcy created since 1964 and that was a special gift from The Queen for Maggie Thatcher's husband Sir Dennis, now held by their son Sir Mark Thatcher.
Some members of the new cabinet will have more in common with John Major's generation of cabinet ministers than Cameron and Osborne's. Hammond and May are only slightly younger than Michael Portillo, John Redwood, Stephen Dorrell, Michael Forsyth, David Mellor.
Some members of the new cabinet will have more in common with John Major's generation of cabinet ministers than Cameron and Osborne's. Hammond and May are only slightly younger than Michael Portillo, John Redwood, Stephen Dorrell, Michael Forsyth, David Mellor.
I'd love to see the likes of Lilley and Howard back.
Mr. Glenn, indeed, although I did quite like the Cameron approach of only rarely doing reshuffles. Made a change from Blair chopping and changing all the time.
Guardian liveblog comments Bojo didn't look particularly happy when leaving downing street. Would've thought Foreign Sec is the best he could have hoped for no?
Expect a big kerfuffle about a new hereditary peerage in the Resignation Honours...
But the successor wouldn't get to sit in the Lords - unless elected at a Hereditary by-election.
Even newly minted hereditaries can't sit. When the 99 Act was passed the hereditaries which were the first holders of their title were offered life peerages.
Who was left by then? There can't have been many first generation hereditaries still alive by 1999, given I think there were only four or five after 1965 and only 1 after 1979.
Quite a few royal ones, I think one actually took a life peerage, maybe the husband of Margaret? Caused a bit of a stir.
Royal peers don't sit in the Lords, although those ennobled to marry female ones (Linley, Snowden) presumably can. Were they the ones?
Edit - do I mean Linley? What was Mark Philips created?
No, they cannot automatically - Royal peers have hereditary peerages and so would need to be elected in a hereditary peer by-election.
I meant before 1999! That was the point of the original comment.
Yes, they could (including the Prince of Wales & Earl of Chester) though I don't believe did.
It's a bit like how the Queen could vote in a general election, but doesn't for constitutional convention reasons.
Peers of the first creation are allowed to sit and vote in the HoL regardless of rank.
Btw is the Brexit secretary actually going to be called Secretary of State for Brexit? Surely something more official sounding?
Probably will be either Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster... *and* "Minister for British Exit of the European Union" (or whatever) within either Foreign and Commonwealth Office or maybe the Cabinet Office (ie not a Secretary of State).
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@GdnPolitics: Owen Smith to offer referendum on Brexit deal if elected Labour leader https://t.co/0UBX3FeWDx
Very brave!
Do it.
Where he will find a note saying "Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck! George."
:-)
Looks like I'm going to be eating my words on May. That is a radical and quite clever move.
Wow
1983 - Viscount Tonypandy - Former speaker George Thomas - Extinct childless
1983 - Viscount (Willie) Whitelaw - Extinct because he had no son and there wasn't a special remainder for his eldest daughter to inherit the title.
1984 - Earl of Stockton - Former PM Harold McMillan - Title inherited by his Grandson who was already a Viscount.
Peers of the first creation are allowed to sit and vote in the HoL regardless of rank.
Incidentally there has only been one Baronetcy created since 1964 and that was a special gift from The Queen for Maggie Thatcher's husband Sir Dennis, now held by their son Sir Mark Thatcher.
Howard as leader in the Lords maybe?
It comes down to Britain to calm the waters.
Boris enters 'hello chaps'