Who does Cameron want sitting round the Cabinet table?

Considering the amount of chatter there is about a possible Tory reshuffle, Philip Johnston’s Telegraph column is a good reminder that the skills that make someone a good opposition spokesman are quite different from those that make a good Cabinet Minister. As Johnston points out only one of the shadow Cabinet have been in an actual Cabinet—William Hague as Welsh Secretary—so it is hard to know who might or might not make a good minister. But considering this is probably the last planned reshuffle, Cameron will do before the next election he is bound to be thinking about this.

One move that might be prompted by this thought is shuffling Chris Grayling from shadow Work and Pensions to Party Chairman. The thinking goes that Grayling is almost the perfect opposition politician—indefatigable and with a great political nose—but might not be so well suited to being a cabinet minister charged with delivering one of the major policy planks of an incoming Cameron government.