The reshuffle announcements keep rolling miserably on, with Theresa May congratulating herself on people bothering to answer the phone to her. One of the new appointments is rather odd.
Anne Milton has had a promotion from the whips’ office to the Education Department, which must be flattering for the sharp Guildford MP. But it’s not clear why May has done it.
The best whips are the ones you don’t notice, and few outside Tory circles will have had much of an idea of how Milton works. But she is one of the most effective and respected whips in the party. This is valuable to any Prime Minister but especially to one who has managed to exhaust, infuriate and weaken her party in one fell swoop.
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