Blair's defiant reshuffle message

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Blair's defiant reshuffle message

By Nick Assinder
Political correspondent, BBC news website


If Tony Blair had wanted to send a defiant message to his rebellious backbenchers he has chosen a pretty effective way of doing it with his reshuffle of the lower ranks.

The appointment of unelected adviser Andrew Adonis to the department of education - and, as a result, the House of Lords - and the rehabilitation of fallen ex-minister Beverly Hughes are signs of a prime minister attempting to prove just who is the boss.

And, just as with the Cabinet changes, they underline his stated determination to finally get the job of reform of the public services done, presumably before he contemplates resignation.

The moves may not be deliberately calculated to provoke his dissidents, but they will almost certainly have that effect anyway...



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4531295.stm

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1. I guess that democracy still doesn't do it for Blair.

He still seems to want his unelected chums as yes-men rather than lowering himself to choose from MPs elected by Joe Public.

This is not good.

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