My Burnham cabinet:
Chancellor: Hitler
Foreign: Mussolini
Home: Shabana Mahmood
Chief Secretary to the PM: Abolish
Energy: Daniel Plainview
Housing: Mao
Justice: Judge Holden
DWP: Iain Duncan Smith
Defence: Henry Kissinger
Minister without Portfolio: Keir Starmer
Ciaran
Okay, now I've started - what my Burnham cabinet would broadly be (If I get 4+ right, I'm doing well!)
Chancellor: Miliband
Foreign: Mahmood
Home: Streeting
Chief Sec to the PM: Powell
DESNZ: Haigh
MCHLG: Nandy
Justice: Cooper
DWP: Rayner
Defense: Jarvis/Healey (depends on DIP)
James Austin
The criteria for chancellor are ideological alignment, intellectual heft and experiance.
On this basis you have 2/3 candidates; Miliband, Cooper and (at a stretch) Haigh.
Wes, to his credit, has clear economics and a economic vision. But 'progressive capitalism' doesnt fit with Manchesterism
James Austin
This is all rather silly. The PM and Chancellor need to have shared overall objectives, otherwise it's not going to work. That matters more than whether "markets" have "confidence". They'll go along with whoever unless they do something Truss-level stupid
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Briefing war breaks out between advocates for Wes Streeting and those close to Ed Miliband
