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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie

Balls and Fraser Nelson. Katie, we've got a few cabinet changes today. Talk us through what's happened.

So two major ones, I mean ultimately it's still the case as we write in the magazine this week that

they'll plan for a wide, a big reshuffle, a big pre-election reshuffle that has been shelved.

It may happen after the party conference that idea being they didn't want to have what tends

to happen with reshuffers which is lots of very angry people because they really mean sacked or

actually sometimes actually worse than being sacked for like you're missing out on your chance of

greatness which is often how Tory MPs feel after reshuffers. So the more expensive one has been put off,

we don't think indefinitely but no firm date exactly and instead what we've had today is

ultimately doing what they had to do which is replacing Ben Wallace because he had made quite

clear that he wanted to go to the back bench just before quitting as an MP at the next election

and they've announced grandchaps, a very seasoned minister to be the new secretary of state for

defence and then to replace the vacancy of the grandchaps left as energy secretary we have

Claire Katino who is the first of the 2019 intake to make cabinet and I think that's probably

in some ways the more eye catching of the promotions because it is a big jump in terms of going

from a fairly junior minister in the department for education to secretary of state and being around

the cabinet table and then in her place because she has been moved up you know how David Johnson

and he was a PPS to Michael Gove who is now taking on Katino's role in the Department of Education.

And Fraser the defence role really I think came back into prominence last year with the invasion

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