Andrew Murrison to defence.
Mark Harper moved from defence
Nick Hurd to the whips office
Tobias Ellwood to DCMS
Mark Lancaster to Dfid
Andrew Rosindell to Home Affairs
Robert Syms leaves the front bench
Ben Wallace to Scotland as deputy to David Mundell
Robert Goodwill moved from the whips office
Mark Prisk stays at Business & Enterprise
UPDATE
Mike Penning to Health (not whips office, as I previously reported)
Justine Greening to Treasury
Anne Milton to Health
Mark Hoban stays in post
Jeremy Wright to the whips office
Perhaps the juiciest appointment so far is Paul Goodman's move to assist Sayeeda Warsi at community cohesion. Given his robust views on the muslim issue it's safe to say he has been appointed to 'keep an eye' on her.
UPDATE 10.38am A commenter has said that David Ruffley moves to the Home Office team from Work & Pensions, presumably replacing Nick Herbert to cover police reform
UPDATE 11.27am Mark Simmonds to health
UPDATE 12.20pm Bob Neill to replace Jacqui Lait as Shadow Minister for London
UPDATE: 12.27pm Jacqui Lait to take on planning & development
UPDATE 2.34pm ConHome reporting David Burrows to Justice & ADam Afriyie to Skills & Universities
UPDATE 4.11pm James Clappison to Children & Schools
WHAT ???? No Nadine Dorries !!
ReplyDeleteRosindale to Home Affairs!! Hanging and Flogginf back on the agenda then
ReplyDeleteStill nothing for Nadine? I'm gutted.
ReplyDeleteWould be a real shame if Harper's gone - genuinely talented sensible right winger, who's done excellent work in building links with veterans groups...
ReplyDeleteI have no idea who these people are.
ReplyDeleteHardly a leader in sight!!!
ReplyDeleteIain,
ReplyDeleteSelling Tevez to Man Utd then?
The BBC seems to think so.
Anon @ 10:03
ReplyDeleteWe have no idea who you are. Shut it.
David Ruffley to Shadow Minister of State at the Home Office. Promotion.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see Mike Penning getting health, show's we'll be continuing to put on a strong challenge on that issue. He's a big hitter in the truest sense (I can see why you thought Whip!).
ReplyDeletehow do you know all this stuff?
ReplyDeleteI know for a FACT that one of the people you have mentioned has not been offered the job formally.
I said at the top of the post, they are unconfirmed. This info has come from various normally reliable sources within the party.
ReplyDeleteLast night I was told that Mike Penning was going tobe a whip. Turned out he has gone to Health. Which of the above appointments is wrong? Happy to correct.
Don't you mean Andrew **Rosindell** Iain?
ReplyDeleteReferring to a story from yesterday. The accusation about Tony Lit not be a registered voter is still the lead item on http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/
ReplyDeleteGrant Shapps needs to follow through on his threat to pursue Labour on this.
I'll be interested to see what, if anything, DC does about the Broon's appointment of ministers for the English Euro-Regions.
ReplyDeleteWill they be shadowed?
And I wish Brown could be challenged on his annoying phrase "The Nations and Regions of Britain", by which he is presumably trying to airbrush England out as a political entity.
So that's the cunning Tory plan!!
ReplyDeleteFill up the front benches with nobodys that nobody knows, and the whole of the United Kingdom will rush out and vote them in!
Superb!!
Gordon and his front bench full of known knowns that we all know must be terrified of either the short campaign or even the long one.
So what's the logic with Boris?
A known known that we know who is also a known unknown that we all don't know but liked by all unknowns that no one knows.
Dave should stick to sledging methinks.
I love Hilton.
Given his robust views on the muslim issue it's safe to say he has been appointed to 'keep an eye' on her. [ about Paul Goodman]
ReplyDeleteerrr ... it could also just be that he's a Tory MP with a large number of Muslim constituents who has written knowledgeably about community cohesion? Am second to no-one in my love of conspiracy but sometimes a cigar is just an illegal smoking device, you know?
Fingers crossed for something good for Harper - thoroughly deserving of a promotion!
ReplyDeleteYou are stealing a march on Conservative Home here, Iain. They haven't covered this at all.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Harper worthy of promotion.
ReplyDeleteAnd a good one at that.
Nothing on the new kid to be from Dover, Iain.
ReplyDeleteR wee forgotten????? or don't matter?
Has Bonking Boris been given anything.
ReplyDeleteWho has been saying that Grieve is not going to be dealing with diversity any more - would be odd that if true?
ReplyDeleteYou can't have a a man with military experience as shadow defence! What ever next? A Farmer at Defra.
ReplyDeleteSome of these are unknowns even in their own households. But I'm not sure Gary Elsby is right that many of the equivalent Labour bods are any better known. Look down the official list of Parly Under-Secs etc.
ReplyDeleteBut, bearing in mind your reader survey's categories of occupations that you offer (every possible variety of political nerd/lobbyist etc listed, but then most of the rest of the economy all lumped under "Other"), perhaps these appointments mean oodles for many of your readers.
When the news is firm it would be interesting for you to start a new thread actually telling us something about them and analysing whether it implies anything in terms of the sense of direction.
Hmm, thrilling.
ReplyDeleteWell Gary Elsby, you may not recognise these names, but I do - and perhaps you could bear in mind that other than Royalty and Leo Blair, few of us are born famous. Dare I say that 20 years ago, few people nationwide would have recognised the name Gordon Brown?
ReplyDeleteAny news on Hugh Robertson and his sport portfolio?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Bonkers Dorries ??
ReplyDeleteHasn't she been given ANY thing ??
vurrister @ 10:25
ReplyDeleteI realise you have no idea who I am. It doesn't matter. I'm not asking you to vote me into government. On the other hand these non-entity zero profile jokers are. The rest of the country knows the names of three Tories. Dave, Boris & Thatcher (blessed be her name). Really, that's it.
Until the Tories get some name recognition for the rest of their team no one outside the world of political anoraks is going to care. And until the majority of the country start to care who the Tories have on their front bench team they will not vote for you. So Gordon will continue to be PM and the Tories will continue to be in Opposition.
Load of strangers, doing jobs as irrelevant as their party and the leader who has absolutely no appeal to normal folk.Most who post on this blog are not normal,and are also irrelevant.They honestly believe because Gordon was a little nervous the other day that swarms of Labour voters will rush over to that loon Cameroon.Watched him during PMQs' as Gordon struggled. He came across as a slimy individual, and Gordon came across as a man taking on the biggest job this country can offer.I would have been bloody nervous.You will not win the next election you know,your party is made up of a load of lightweight toffs.This crowd looks like a selection from the '20s not 2007,your going back not forward.We who vote Labour love Cameroon and Boris, it is they and folk like them that will win us the next election.You have no idea how you are perceived,you are still the nasty party and are destined to be in opposition for all eternity.
ReplyDeleteOK, Judith,I see what you're saying.
ReplyDeleteYou reckon that 'Tobias Ellwood' is is a Prime Minister in the making and I'm just overlooking him.
OK,OK, I'll run with that. My mistake.
Sorry.
Gary
Gary Elsby said...
ReplyDeleteSo that's the cunning Tory plan!!
Fill up the front benches with nobodys that nobody knows, and the whole of the United Kingdom will rush out and vote them in!
Agree with you and that's a first.
gary elsby stoke said... You reckon that 'Tobias Ellwood' is is a Prime Minister in the making and I'm just overlooking him.
ReplyDeleteI think he was in "Great Expectations" if I am not mistaken.
Still nothing for Nadine ?
ReplyDeleteSigh, I can tell this is going to be a long wait...
"Until the Tories get some name recognition for the rest of their team no one outside the world of political anoraks is going to care"
ReplyDeleteIn 1997, a poll on shadow cabinet recognition three months before the elction showed the generalpublic were only aware of Tony Blair, Robin Cook, and Gordon Brown.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteWhat about Bonkers Dorries ??
Think Dorries should go for Cameroons job,it's what the voters would want.Perhaps with Boris as her deputy.
labour are best - perhaps Widdy Web could mentor Nadine Bonkers, and take her under her wing, as a way of getting rid of the 'Dorris Karloff' jokes so unkindly made at her expense
ReplyDeletelabour are best - good plan; I hear Nadine 'gypsy' Dorries has all the 'travelling community' vote sewn up..
ReplyDeleteI just did the Iain Dale's Diary opinion poll and I thought it was about broadening the blog's reach and appeal.
ReplyDeleteRolling updates on shadow nobodies is rather niche isn't it?
One big post at the end of all the musical chairs I can understand but 'breaking news' this ain't.
off topic, but...
ReplyDeleteThere is a particularly good natured debate on BBC Parliament on higher education. John Denham and David Willets have been having the kind of exchanges that shows the Commons at its best.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletelabour are best - good plan; I hear Nadine 'gypsy' Dorries has all the 'travelling community' vote sewn up..
I'd heard that,she's a winner is our Dorries.The dream team Dorries and Boris,what do you think?
Who'll speak for us fish? We deserve a better herring...
ReplyDeleteI woild like to complain about you showing Mr Brown with his trousers down. It is disgrace. Don't you know he is Scottish You should have used a kilt.
ReplyDeleteHey buy the way why do you you only use google adsense why do you no use trade doubler.
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/Trade%20Doubler.htm
It is Swedish so we keep cash in Europe supporting a left wing ecnomy.
wrinkled weasel said...
ReplyDeleteoff topic, but...
You know the rules by now wrinkled surely.Keep on topic there's a good fellow.I don't want to have to tell you twice,O.K.
eric the fish said...
ReplyDeleteWho'll speak for us fish? We deserve a better herring...
wish I'd said that.
Hmmm. Who will 'keep an eye'on either of the 'community cohesion' bods re: their dismal record on the acceptance of homosexuality...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeletelabour are best - perhaps Widdy Web could mentor Nadine Bonkers, and take her under her wing, as a way of getting rid of the 'Dorris Karloff' jokes so unkindly made at her expense
Your a saint,what a kind thought.Bless you.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI woild like to complain about you showing Mr Brown with his trousers "down".
It's "doon" not "down"
judith said...
ReplyDeleteDare I say that 20 years ago, few people nationwide would have recognised the name Gordon Brown?
OR "Madonna" Judith ?
Pick any of the names listed then google them. Majority are either floppy haired “rah rah rrahh we’re going to smash the oiks” brigade, having recently come out of their military officers’ commission, ( In the rear with the gear ). Or they are jolly hockey stick pony girls, turned up polo shirt mummy types.
ReplyDeleteColin D said...
ReplyDeleteHardly a leader in sight!!!
Colin are you looking for a new leader then ?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletePick any of the names listed then google them. Majority are either floppy haired “rah rah rrahh we’re going to smash the oiks” brigade, having recently come out of their military officers’ commission, ( In the rear with the gear ). Or they are jolly hockey stick pony girls, turned up polo shirt mummy types.
That is called a Tory Party.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Who will 'keep an eye'on either of the 'community cohesion' bods re: their dismal record on the acceptance of homosexuality...
July 05, 2007 1:09 PM
INDEED... so far all of the names Iain has listed are against equal rights for gay people, pro fox hunting pro Iraq, yet strongly against any new anti-terrorism laws.
what about shadow minister for women or don't the tories have one?
ReplyDeleteThere seem to be a lot of NuLab trolls out today - wouldn't your lazy public service days be better spent dealing with the floods and looting disaster in the North? Or planning on what to do when the economy finally implodes in the not too distant future? Idiots.
ReplyDeleteHow do people follow who all these people are .I spend most of my time following politics in one way or another. Books , magazines, papers and so on .Nonetheless the vast majority of these people mean nothing to me and I could not tell you whether their oppos were better known.
ReplyDeleteTake Gary Ellsby , for example , a conspicuously dim commenter who demonstrates mountainous ignorance regularly .But what do I see , he claims to know every Tom Tit in the Labour Party.
Is there a fanzine? Can you buy stickers from a garage and paste them lovingly into a cardboard House of Parliament for prizes. I `d love to know.
BaldockBaldrick said...
ReplyDeleteIain,
Selling Tevez to Man Utd then?
Not be available for Camerons front bench then ?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThere seem to be a lot of NuLab trolls out today - wouldn't your lazy public service days be better spent dealing with the floods and looting disaster in the North? Or planning on what to do when the economy finally implodes in the not too distant future? Idiots.
July 05, 2007 1:33 PM
WHAT A CLASSIC TORY. This is why you will never win with "Camera On". Some one niggles you gently and straight away the nasty side is revealed. Public sector workers are all shirkers, your wish, nay desire, that the economy fails just to gain political points. No doubt those on the dole deserve to be. In fact you probably wish there were more.
You are all so pathetic; any criticism means you are by default a “NuLab Troll”. I could be a Lib, a UKIP. a Green, a Nationalist, or just may be someone how thinks Cameron is hopeless.
Newmania said...Take Gary Ellsby , for example , a conspicuously dim commenter who demonstrates mountainous ignorance regularly .
ReplyDeleteGary is not going to be chuffed with that I feel Newmania ,not at all chuffed.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
There seem to be a lot of NuLab trolls out today - wouldn't your lazy public service days
I'm retired friend, and taking the .... out of silly folk like you is what I now do.
Anon.1.33 Bless!
ReplyDeleteFAO Anonymous ( The retired one )
ReplyDeleteNot many Tories talking about Camerons comments on Hizb ut Tahir today.
oohhhhh... I wonder why ????
Anonymous said: "I've had enough of anonymous comments on here."
ReplyDeleteQuite right. There are far too many.
Can I just make yet another reference to Nadine Dorries?
ReplyDeleteNewmania said...
ReplyDeleteHow do people follow who all these people are .I spend most of my time following politics in one way or another. Books , magazines, papers and so on .
Bit of an intellectual then you would say,a man of letters.A Labour supporter Newmania.This blog needs folks like you.
Nadine Dorries fanatic said...
ReplyDeleteCan I just make yet another reference to Nadine Dorries?
Yes.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said: "I've had enough of anonymous comments on here."
Quite right. There are far too many.
I second that.
Never heard of these people - and really don't care. YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeletewhat about shadow minister for women or don't the tories have one?
That would be Boris.
Who is Boris Johnson.Is he that guy who advertises Turkish delight?
ReplyDeleteSuddenly inchoate glee overcame the creature and he began to make low barking sounds almost like real laughter. Finally his simian digit , shadowed by a sympathetic tongue rewarded the painful concentration and the sentence was typed
ReplyDeleteNot be available for Camerons front bench then ?
Shrieking with spasms of pleasure he rocked in rapturous contemplation of his work. “Funny’ he grunted “ Funny words” .Idly he picked a flea from his pelt quickly consuming it ....
Iain, you really have to get yourself elected to parliament. This is not healthy for you :>D
ReplyDeleteAnon 1.55 That's Norris not Boris.
ReplyDeleteUnderstandable mistake.
Anon 12.22,
ReplyDeleteThe general public have rarely heard of the junior posts. How many people do you expect have heard of Bob Ainsworth, Kitty Ussher, Steven Timms or Gareth Thomas. All hold pretty important governemnt positions yet have zero public presence.
For any party to win an election it does not require the public to know the entire front bench, but that the message is delivered effectively. This only takes a handful of key people who are capable of delivering it. Few people voted Labour in 1997 because they thought Jack Cunningham would do wonderful things for agriculture.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAnon 1.55 That's Norris not Boris.
Understandable mistake.
Thanks,silly me.
Who are these people?
ReplyDeleteWhy do they pester us so?
What have we done to deserve this?
Few people voted Labour in 1997 because they thought Jack Cunningham would do wonderful things for agriculture.
ReplyDeleteNo but most thought he would do great things for Jack Cunningham without going to jail like his father
Will there be lots of Boris's old biking friends coming along to support him when he stands.
ReplyDeleteAnd which lucky so and so will pick up his Henley seat at the bye election.
For Boris's sake I hope this isn't another dave /Hilton "you know what" up!
Two people now on the "community cohesion" gravy train. What the hell is "community cohesion" (given that Britain is 95% indigenous Britons and that we have never needed government assistance to get along with one another)?
ReplyDeleteIs there no area of British life that David Cameron does not think he can improve by getting personally involved in? I cannot for the life of me see how he differs from control freak Tony Blair.
I would appreciate an explanation of how these "community cohesion" people are going to occupy their days. Involving themselves in the lives of other people, perchance?
Boris, Norris, Schmoris!
ReplyDeleteThe limit to my interest in politics is reached way before junior shadow ministerial appointments, I have to admit...
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 1.27: Oh I say, old boy, that's so awflly, awflly funny about Toff Tories!
ReplyDeleteI've just got my old butler to look up the background of Labour MPs, dontcha know, and one perceives they are all horny-handed sons of the toil who went on the Jarrow March, then worked down t'mines and sit in the Commons with their flat caps on and their whippets on a piece of string by their sides.
Bloody hilarious, as the old Nanny used to say, before we had to confine her to the attic in the west Wing.
West wing?
ReplyDeleteI see MPs have been accused of smoking in the commons toilets. One rule for us....
ReplyDelete"I would appreciate an explanation of how these "community cohesion" people are going to occupy their days. Involving themselves in the lives of other people, perchance?"
ReplyDeleteVerity - let me explain. The Chambers English dictionary defines cohesion as the process of sticking together.
Ordinarily people take great care not to 'stick together' as walking around on the Underground would be impossible if people bumping into each other were to 'stick together'. However, under plans to make mass-transit more efficient there will be plans to make people of diverse backgrounds stick to each other, thus having to travel in the same direction, which will use less fuel, and allow the nation to meet those pesky 20% carbon reduction targets. Now I know you may think this is rather batty, but trust me it is more credible than the real story, and the truth is so much stranger than this fiction, it is the story we are going to have to sell to the voters, 'cos they are too smart to believe the truth about 'community cohesion'..
daily referendum wrote: "I see MPs have been accused of smoking in the commons toilets. One rule for us...."
ReplyDeleteThe truth is probably that some scummy journalists did this and then decided to say it was MPs. Anyway, who cares? Relax and you'll live longer.
No-one has mentioned Nadine for a while.
ReplyDeleteIain, can you please post some more? I am getting bored and you're not helping. Plus this junior shadow ministerial resuffle stuff is really dull!
Anonymous said: "what about shadow minister for women or don't the tories have one?"
ReplyDeleteWhat about a minister for women's shadows?
re: smoking in the Commons toilets, I just paid a visit myself and the place absolutely reeks of smoke with ash all over the cubicles. Heh, the place gets more like a school by the minute...
ReplyDeleteSurely 'James Clappison' is the 'nom de plume' pseudonym of Nadine Dorries ?
ReplyDeleteThe seeming absence of Boris J from this line-up might be a further signal of his intentions? Surely he would not just have been sacked?
ReplyDeleteGo Boris! London and the Party needs you.
John Penrose to stay as Letwins PPS for the policy review.
ReplyDeleteThe odd thing about these dead people who have been promoted out of oblivion and into more oblivion is the entertainment value of it all.
ReplyDeleteNewmania should at least understand that to this simplistic socialist, who was at the heart of Thatcher's venom,any bad news for the Tories is music to my ears.
The best thing that can happen to these dead nobody's is for Dave to sack them at once.
They then would be famous and we'd all want to know why they were sacked. The press would cut forests down to supply the print.
The new current bunch of dead people will only add to the morticians,Hague and Davis.
Keep it up Dave/Hilton. I love you pair.
gcj said...
ReplyDeleteJohn Penrose to stay as Letwins PPS for the policy review.
Thanks for that.
Gary Elsby said...
ReplyDeleteDon't worry Gary I think Newmania's on something.Have you seen his last post ?
Newmania said...
ReplyDeleteSuddenly inchoate glee overcame the creature and he began to make low barking sounds almost like real laughter. Finally his simian digit , shadowed by a sympathetic tongue rewarded the painful concentration and the sentence was typed
Not be available for Camerons front bench then ?
Shrieking with spasms of pleasure he rocked in rapturous contemplation of his work. “Funny’ he grunted “ Funny words” .Idly he picked a flea from his pelt quickly consuming it ...
Mine was funnier.
'David Burrows'? Do you mean David Burrowes, MP for Enfield Southgate (and impressively prolific breeder)?
ReplyDeleteFor a moment you had me thinking that the former chairman of the Solicitors Family Law Association had turned his hand to politics...
Can I have a 99 flake with raspberry ripple ?
ReplyDeleteGosh a 'ton up' and to think Guido was dismissing this as 'too much detail'.. Where can he have got that idea from ?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to put Nadine Dorries in Comment, sorry, Room 101...
ReplyDeleteSurely the dullest day on the ID diary for a long while. When hours have been occupied by commentary revolving around Oliver Letwin's PPS and (probably) Cameron's fag boy's fag boy then you are left to wonder the value of the internet ;) I had to do some work today because this was all SO dull and irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteWell, I do have a day job too you know! Sorry I can't be prolific all the time!
ReplyDeleteIain, I hope the alternative activity was more fun. I can assure you that I shall loyally return when we (you) get back to some meat. BTW - why no mention of Brown's constitutional stuff? I see the Power Inquiry dabs all over it - the language was almost identical - and that pleases me. Or maybe some more on the VERY loose cannon that is Sayeeda Warsi?
ReplyDeleteIain - tip for your readers survey - please do not repeat such detailed coverage on a junior Ministerial reshuffle - a tory geekfest and dull, dull, dull.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I am concerned, this list of people I have never heard of being appointed to totally useless jobs is as interesting as reading the staff roster at the local Boots. So bloody what?
ReplyDelete