Jonathan Freedland talks about Boris Johnson’s brutal cabinet reshuffle which brings the members of the victorious Brexit campaign into the heart of government. And: Laura Snapes on the nominations for the Mercury music prizeIt was one of the most sweeping and brutal cabinet reshuffles in modern political history. Boris Johnson used his first evening in office to reshape his government, with a cull of any of his colleagues not signed up to his central pledge: leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal. The Guardian’s political writer and columnist Jonathan Freedland talks to India Rakusen about a new cabinet that many have said seems to be a campaign team built for an election rather than for running the country. With the ‘great offices of state’ held by Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Sajid Javid, the cabinet is certainly a diverse team, but one that is distinctly rightwing. Continue reading…
Via: Boris Johnson's hard Brexit cabinet – podcast
English News
PIERS MORGAN: A phone call I received from a fired-up Trump should be a warning to Democrats
President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…