With no fanfare whatsoever, David Cameron has dumped Liam Fox out of the Shadow Cabinet - according to the Conservative Party website - in favour of the unknown Lord Luke.
Also dumped is Party Vice-Chairman and Jeffrey Archer lookalike Andrew Rosindell, who has been relegated to the post of junior whip.
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Hague has gone too, btw.
Kerron said this on December 13th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
You are spending an awful lot of time on the Tory website Monkey.
Guido Fawkes said this on December 13th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Just called Central Office to ask what was going on and caused somewhat of a panic by the sounds going on in the background. A web-site error is apparently to blame and Dr Fox will be reinstated shortly.
David said this on December 14th, 2005 at 10:21 am
It appears to now be fixed, Fox is back in, and Hague is there, as Shadow Foreign Secretary & Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet.
What does the latter bit means?
I’d blame a cock up, but conspiracies are so much more fun. So, litle tiff perchance?
MatGB said this on December 14th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
Hague is “Senior member of the Shadow Cabinet” because he’s better than most of the rest, and will deputise for Boy Wonder when he or Blair is absent (ie. Prezza vs Hague!)
MattSimpson said this on December 14th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
A busy man, that ‘unknown’ Lord Luke.
He’s got 4 jobs listed on the Tory web site - surely they’re not short of Tory Lords to fill shadow non-jobs?
Paul C said this on December 14th, 2005 at 11:27 pm
He’s ‘unknown’ because they missed the ‘n’ of the end of his name.
He’s been out of the country for a while you see…
Eskimo Nell said this on December 15th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
I see this turned up in the Time diary today. Did they pay you a fee for it?
Andrew Tattersall said this on December 15th, 2005 at 6:46 pm
I generally don’t require payment. Courtesy is sufficient to keep me sweet.
Recess Monkey
Recess Monkey said this on December 16th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Obviously the removal of Rosindell would have nothing at all to do with the fact that Michael Crick’s forthcoming book is set to reveal exactly why Rozzer looks so like Lord Archer. Apparently he has the blood test evidence to prove his point too ……… whatever that point may be of course.
Matt said this on January 1st, 2006 at 4:57 am