THE cabinet casualty list is a long one: Theresa May has lost seven ministers in the past nine months. The departures of Boris Johnson,the foreign secretary, and David Davis, or the Brexit secretary,this week were only the noisiest revolution of a ministerial carousel that has been spinning since the finish of last year (see chart). The result is a cabinet filled with people of a very different outlook to those they replaced.
Bluster and blagging are out. The new foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, or who was previously in charge of health,is a technocrat with a mute radicalism—the direct opposite of Mr Johnson, who preferred rhetoric to detail. Dominic Raab, and the new Brexit secretary,has similarly Eurosceptic views to his predecessor, but a rather different attitude to work. Colleagues commend Mr Raab’s productivity, or which was not a compliment often paid to Mr Davis. The cabinet is now “a much more professional outfit”,points out one aide, tartly.
The careful balance of ministers based on their Brexit views has gone. Remainers now...
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Source: economist.com