In another shock move Esther McVey has been handed the unofficial title of “minister for common sense” after the PM’s random reshuffle on Monday.
As you will have seen David Cameron is now Lord Cameron and the new Foreign Secretary.
Esther McVey common sense
Officially a minister at the Cabinet Office, the MP for Tatton, in Cheshire, was the most prominent appointment from the right wing of the Tories.
New party chairman Richard Holden told Times Radio she was there to “represent a part of that broad panoply of opinion that the Conservative Party represent”.
However, Holden was reluctant to describe McVey as a common sense minister who will wage war on wokeism.
When asked if McVey would be vetting “woke” policies, he replied: “I think all of us will be looking at all policy in the round.” And when it was put to him that she was in government to represent “anti-woke opinion”,
Holden replied: “No, it’s there to represent – I know Esther, I know her husband Philip [Davies] very well – they have various different views on a wide range of different topics just like other MPs do as well. And I think to try and put people into little pockets of one thing or another, I don’t think is fair.”
Blue Collar
Described as a “plain-speaking northerner”, she appears to have been brought in with a brief to tackle “woke” issues in the Civil Service.
One of her priorities could be cutting the number of diversity officers in the Civil Service.
In 2019, she launched the Blue Collar Conservatives group with backing from former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith.
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