Additional junior appointments [UPDATE]

howard Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 08:32:04 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Here are the latest ministerial appointments and No. 10 moves.



  • Margaret Beckett is new Housing Minister
  • Paul Myners (Chairman Guardian Group) to be a City Minister.
  • Lord Drayson to be Science Minister
  • Stephen Carter (ex No. 10 Strategy) to be a junior Communication, Telecom and Broadcasting Minister
  • Damian McBride is moved from his spokesman role to another job in No. 10.
  • His replacement is Justin Forsyth, ex Oxfam.
 Update [2008-10-4 20:51:14 by howard]: According to BBC / Mail on Sunday and unconfirmed:
  • Rosie Winterton and Tom Harris sacked from Transport
  • Margaret Hodge resigns from DCMS (her husband is seriously ill)
  • Barbara Follett becomes Culture Minister at DCMS
  • Chris Bryant Deputy Leader of the House
  • Phil Woolas replaces Liam Byrne as Immigration Minister
  • Shahid Malik goes to Communities at DCLG
  • Parmjit Dhanda leaves DCLG
  • Tom Watson joins campaign team
  • Jon Trickett appointed PPS to Gordon Brown
  • Sion Simon goes to Universities Minister at DUIS


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Additional junior appointments [UPDATE] | 7 comments (7 topical)

Re: Additional junior appointments (#1)

by RedRooster on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 11:43:39 AM GMT

The housing switch is interesting, for a number of reasons.  Is this a promotion for Caroline Flint?  Or did Brown want a safe pair of hands to discuss mortgage rates with journalists?

There is also a massive review on the private rented sector and 'studentification' that has just reported.  Flint was generally seen as supportive of greater regulation of Houses in Multiple Occupancy- will Beckett still carry that forward?


Tom Harris (#2)

by rwendland on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 03:00:38 PM GMT

On the flip side, our contributor Tom Harris has been returned to the back benches from Parliamentary Under Secretary at the DoT.


Re: Tom Harris (#3)

by swatantra on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 03:46:14 PM GMT

That'll teach him to blog on Labourhome.


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Re: Tom Harris (#4)

by otware on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 04:16:16 PM GMT

Unlucky!


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Re: Tom Harris (#5)

by Floating voter on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 09:05:40 PM GMT

Luck had nothing to do with it. You may recall he had a "you've never had it so good" moment which was not as well received for him as it was for McMillan. Then again, when McMillan said it, things were not falling apart.


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Re: Tom Harris (#6)

by Al on Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 12:01:29 PM GMT

I can't believe he has been sacked for that to be honest. By all accounts he defended his statement well and it was a while ago now so it's hardly something that is automatically associated with him.

I'd have thought that he was just an unlucky junior minister who loses out when other names come in. I think he'll get another chance at some point in the future.


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Re: Tom Harris (#7)

by otware on Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 02:04:12 PM GMT

Yeah I think at that end of politics they just get nudged out now and then. Maybe Brow felt he didn't have the drive needed to progress through the ranks? Maybe he didn't get on with his secretary of state? There are many possible reasons, the blog that to me seemed totally uncontroversial was probably a lesser factor.


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Additional junior appointments [UPDATE] | 7 comments (7 topical)