{"id":132143,"date":"2020-02-14T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/14\/boris-johnsons-reshuffle-was-all-about-centralising-power-katy-balls\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:46:35","slug":"boris-johnsons-reshuffle-was-all-about-centralising-power-katy-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132143","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson\u2019s reshuffle was all about centralising power | Katy Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u2019s moves have put No 10 firmly in control. Now Johnson can\u2019t avoid responsibility for his government\u2019s actionsIn the weeks after Boris Johnson\u2019s election victory, a cabinet minister paid a visit to Downing Street to discuss their brief. It wasn\u2019t to pitch a flagship policy or suggest a personal programme of radical reform. Instead, their message to the No 10 operation was simple: what do you want to do?This secretary of state had clocked early on what\u2019s only now dawning on many ministers \u2013 and former ministers \u2013 in the wake of Thursday\u2019s reshuffle. The minister had read the tea leaves and worked out that the best way to get on in this government was to show No 10 that you would drive forward its agenda. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/14\/boris-johnson-reshuffle-centralising-power\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Johnson\u2019s reshuffle was all about centralising power | Katy Balls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u2019s moves have put No 10 firmly in control. Now Johnson can\u2019t avoid responsibility for his government\u2019s actionsIn the weeks after Boris Johnson\u2019s election victory, a cabinet minister paid a visit to Downing Street to discuss their brief. It wasn\u2019t to pitch a flagship policy or suggest a personal programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}