The reshuffle might be over, but the government is still changing shape. It has emerged that George Bridges has quit as a Brexit minister. He was highly rated by David Davis, his erstwhile boss, and had established himself as one of the most able ministers in the government – precisely the sort of person they can’t really afford to lose at this time. So why has he walked out now? We are only given a diplomatic answer: he’d been contemplating moving on for some time, and it seemed like a good time.
If this rationale sounds familiar it’s precisely the formula that Katie Perrior deployed when she quit as Theresa May’s communications chief after just nine months in the job. We now know the real reason that Perrior quit: she felt that May’s No10 was dysfunctional, that she was unable to consult or lead a team, that there were “batshit crazy” ideas flying around and that the Prime Minister preferred diktats to consultation.
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