Lynne Featherstone is to return to the Home Office to replace Norman Baker as Minister of State for Crime Prevention, Nick Clegg has announced.
This is interesting because Damian Green named Featherstone as one of the ministers who worked effectively rather than caused trouble. The minister herself said this afternoon that she has ‘always had a very constructive relationship with Theresa May’, so perhaps the deliberate strategy of antagonism is over for a while.
At least we know what the Tories think of Baker’s departure. At Treasury Questions today, George Osborne slipped in a cheeky reference to his former Coalition colleague, saying:
‘There’s now a vacancy, because the hon. member for Lewes has resigned, for a conspiracy theorist at the Home Office.’
Other appointments announced in the Baker aftermath are that Baroness Northover has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development at DfID, Lorely Burt MP has been appointed as an Assistant Government Whip, Tom Brake MP has been appointed as an Assistant Government Whip, in addition to his current role as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, and Baroness Garden has been appointed as a Government Whip; Baroness in Waiting; and Government Spokesperson in the House of Lords.
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