The departure today of Baroness (Shriti) Vadera from her position as Parliamentary Secretary at (predictably both) the Business department and the Cabinet office has many interesting features, of which the newspapers have focussed on 'why' and 'what can it mean'.
She is yet another government minister (Malloch-Brown, Darzi) who has departed without a successor - the official statement is that her duties will be undertaken by Lord (Mervyn) Davies of Abersoch, the man who (eventually) successed Digby Jones as Trade Minister. Is this a reflection that her job in government has been concluded (seems unlikely given that she was a business minister and the economic realities haven't changed) or that no-one else wants the job?
Normally, you'd expect one reshuffle, on one day, triggered either by an event or the periodic wish of a Prime Minister to refresh government. This week, 3 months after the last reshuffle and not triggered by any forced departures, we've had two separate reshuffles, on two separate days. It's an unusually random and apparently uncoordinated approach to reshuffles - I can't think of any similar pattern to reshuffles over the last half century or so.
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