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Originally Posted by Hugh
But received a higher percentage of those who actually voted - 33.8% vs 32.1%
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Oh, that's okay then...
Has anyone noticed the state of the country under labour?
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Originally Posted by Damien
Not a massive point of interest but still noteworthy.
Starmer has appointed two non-MPs to the cabinet. Sir Patrick Valance of COVID fame is the Science Minister. Fair enough.
But probably bigger news. James Timpson of Timpson - the key cutters company - has been made Prisons Minister!
Both are being appointed to the Lords to be able to do this.
I quite like this decision. Timpson recruits out of prisons quite a bit and I saw an interview with him on Channel 4 a few months ago where he had an excellent understanding of it.
Putting people who understand the topic as Ministers makes sense to me. For balance, I said the same about making Cameron Foreign Secretary.
We should make the cabinet more qualified like the Americans do rather than try to find someone from the 99% of MPs who are humanities graduates to be the Minister for Science or whatever.
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Timpson are great for reforming prisoners and I've never understood how an mp proves themselves completely unsuitable for one ministerial role can be appropriate for another based on nothing other than seemingly that past failure.