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Theresa May made a power play this week and failed.

After weeks of plotting and briefing, the Prime Minister held a re-shuffer of her ministers on Monday and

Tuesday. It did not go very well. Jeremy Hunt refused to move on from the Health brief

and ended up leaving Down Street with a wider portfolio than the one he went in with.

Greg Clark, Andrea Ledson and Chris Grilling all remained in situ despite Number 10's desire to move

them on and Justin Greening refused a move from education to work and pensions abruptly exiting the government.

Far from showing Theresa May strength, the reshuffle revealed her weakness.

Sir George Parker, it was quite extraordinary, Rieshofer, We've talked about this for weeks on successive

podcast episodes, but who was going to survive, who was not going to survive, and

generally it was a big load of nothing. Yes, it was certainly a reshuffle of

two halves, wasn't it? The first day was a total disaster.

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