The financial crisis has rather got Brown out of his reshuffle hole. The word in Westminster is that there will be a relatively minor reshuffle tomorrow. To my mind, the most interesting question is who will Brown make Chief Whip? That choice will give us a good idea of how secure Brown thinks his position is and how he intends to handle the rebels, who haven’t gone away but are just biding their time.
Anyway, here’s a little list of the speculation that’s out there:
There’s a ton of other speculation floating around in Westminster—Liam Byrne to the Cabinet Office, Cruddas to the Cabinet, Paul Murphy to a new department of the nations—but these seem to be the main rumours. Most people are expecting a fairly undramatic reshuffle but I can’t think of the last reshuffle that actually went smoothly so expect some drama before this is all over.John Hutton to move from BERR (Telegraph) Hillary Benn to go from DEFRA (Boulton and Co) Tony McNulty to Chief Whip (The Sun)
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