Boris Johnson's reshuffle is being widely depicted as a ruthless exercise of power, but those with memories of his Mayoralty might just see it as incompetence based on a failure to understand how other people work. It is unsurprising the Jeremy Hunt did not want to replace Penny Mordaunt given she had just been fired for supporting him. That Johnson did not see that coming reminds me of how he stumbled into firing Ian Blair. We might also find the pattern of appointments being made without properly checking out the backgrounds of those appointed being repeated.
The peculiar approach of putting an English MP in the Scottish Office and diverging the UK EU policy from opinion North of the Border will do no good either to the continuation of the UK or the possible Tory revival.
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