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Coffee House Shots

What to make of the reshuffle?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Boris Johnson has reshuffled his cabinet. Gavin Williamson is gone. Dominic Raab is no longer Foreign Secretary, but is now the Deputy Prime Minister, with Liz Truss taking over his former position. These changes and many more are dissected by Katy Balls and James Forsyth on today's Coffee House Shots.

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

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0:19.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

0:22.5

I'm James Forsythe.

0:23.8

I'm joined by Katie Balls on a day of drama here in Westminster.

0:27.7

We have had a cabinet reshuffle today and it has been more extensive than many had expected.

0:35.0

It's had its moments of dramas and it spills. Katie, do you think this

0:40.1

reshuffle counts as a success for the Prime Minister? I think it's too early to tell. I think that we can

0:45.3

see it as a statement of intent from the Prime Minister. I think it's a show of his authority

0:50.2

that he has embarked on this reshuffle and it's not a particularly timid reshuffle.

0:54.8

It's fairly sizable.

0:56.9

If you look at some of the ministers who have just been cast out completely,

1:00.4

so Gavin Williamson has lost his job, Robert Jenrick has lost his job, Robert Buckland, Amanda Milling.

1:06.7

And I think that each one of those tells us something in the sense that there was lots of speculation and governments of not keep it on his role in education, but he could move to something else, perhaps leader of the house, because they're ultimately worried about having someone who is an organiser on the backbenchers.

1:23.2

I think the fact that Boris Johnson has decided that he is not sufficiently worried about that

1:27.5

tells you about something where he is mentally at the moment in terms of the unruly party.

1:32.5

I think that he is in quite a punchy mood.

1:34.7

Someone described it to me as he's in world king mode, feeling all-powerful at the moment.

1:39.4

And then I think you can see with Robert Jenrick.

1:42.0

Now, both Williamson and Robert Jenrick were ministers we knew

1:45.8

had a difficult time with their brief, who fell lower in those conservative home rankings.

1:50.8

But Robert Jenrick is also someone who was in that trio, Rishy's feeling Oliver Dowden and Robert

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