Jeremy Hunt and NHS spending

Reshuffles are significant when they change policy and not just personnel. The reason that so much attention is focused on Transport is that the decision to move Justine Greening does suggest that Number 10 wants, at the very least, more room to maneuver on aviation policy.

But speaking on the Today Programme this morning, Matthew d’Ancona – the coalition’s biographer —suggested two other departments where a personnel change could be a prelude to a policy change.