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Originally Posted by Hugh
Lord Cameron of Witney?
(He will need to given a Peerage to serve in Government)
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The first time one of the Great Offices has been held by a peer since Carrington, who resigned for failing to spot the imminent invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 (and arguably also for a foreign policy posture that encouraged Argentina to think they could get away with it). Though the more serious question is whether it is any longer acceptable to have a senior cabinet member beyond the scrutiny of the elected chamber.
Sunak may well be trying to distance himself from his own party’s right wing but winding back our principles of democratic accountability by a generation is a desperate way of doing it.