'People want competence' Ex-MP Anna Soubry rips into Cabinet following reshuffle

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    Anna Soubry, 64, locked horns with former Conservative colleague Charles Walker, 54, over Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday night’s episode of BBC Newsnight. The ex-MP for Broxtowe, who spent some time as a junior minister during David Cameron’s premiership, claimed the reconfigured Cabinet.

    “Let’s try and root this in the real world, shall we?,” she said.

    “We’ve got Brexit, and Covid and the fall-out from that, and then climate change to deal with.

    “They [the public] don’t care about the make-up of the Cabinet.

    “What they want is competence and they want good Government and they want people who know what they’re doing and they want people with some big ideas to sort out the crises we are in.”

    “When you look at this Cabinet”, she continued, “I struggle to find anybody in it who can match up to what this country needs at the moment.”

    Ms Soubry then went on to concede that the promotion of Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi to Education Secretary was a “very good appointment”.

    However, the Europhile ex-MP went on to berate a demoted Dominic Raab and promoted Nadine Dorries.

    On the Esher & Walton MP, Soubry said: “The farce over Dominic Raab speaks volumes.”

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    She added: “He wasn’t good enough to be Foreign Secretary but apparently he is good enough to be Deputy Prime Minister and, in the event of anything happening to Boris Johnson, to be Prime Minister.”

    But it was on Ms Dorries that Soubry was particularly scathing.

    The former Broxtowe MP said the Mid Bedfordshire MP was “not up to the job” and also said the Culture Secretary couldn’t make it as a “bag carrier” under David Cameron or Theresa May.

    Mr Raab had served as Prime Minister’s Foreign Secretary since Boris Johnson won the 2019 Tory Party leadership contest.

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    He now finds himself as Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.

    The reshuffle also saw Nadine Dorries elevated from her position as the Minister of State for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety to become the UK’s tenth Culture Secretary in as many years.



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