May's Cabinet

[Gromit]

A position for Cameron, Foreign Secretary perhaps.
Osborne at No.11.
Nowt for Gove, and Boris.
Then much as before.

[jno]

I remain unconvinced by Osborne at No 11, but maybe that's the best she's got.

[anneasquith]

Be interesting who she chooses for home Secretary ?

[retrocop]

I though Nigel Farage as Foreign Secretary and Andrea Leadsom as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

[ichkeria]

Osborne won't be chancellor, not if she's serious about binning austerity
Cameron Foreign Secretary? More likely to be Stephen Crabb, and as we know that is probably rather, er unlikely ...

I am still hoping there'll be an election sooner rather than later

[Bazile]

//A position for Cameron, Foreign Secretary perhaps.//

Are you joking ?

I can't see an ex PM accepting any cabinet position .

Osborne on the other hand will accept anything to avoid being relegated to the backbenches .
He would think that all his christmas's had come at once , if he hung on to no 11

[anneasquith]

LOL @rc.

[dannyk13]

I don't think Cameron will accept a cabinet post,,

[mikey4444]

I'm with danny here....Dave would be mad to accept any Cabinet job.

In times of yore of course, he could rely on a nice Euro Commissioner's job, but ......... !

Given all the mess that Osborne had made of his Budgets and his stated targets, I can't see him hanging onto to Number 11.

After all, he has yet to explain how he is going to fill in that big black hole that was left when the central plank of his Budget was defeated in the House of Lords.

[jno]

Cameron said he was standing down as PM months ago, long before the referendum, but it was always possible he would be prepared to take on a cabinet post nd he didn't deny it.

[anneasquith]

No, Cameron has a book to write, after dinner speeches to make , and reflect :-)

[Gromit]

Cameron wanted to stay on until 2020 or slightly before.
Foreign Secretary would suit him because he knows the other leaders and would get to haunt about a lot.
I don't think he will do a Heath and go and sulk for 25 years. He won the election so he still has a stake in this Government.

[Gromit]

I definitely did write *jaunt* about, though haunt is funnier.

[retrocop]

Cameron just announced new PM takes over Wednesday.

[jourdain2]

Gove was doing well as Justice Minister with his reforms, he should keep that. She needs to have Brexiteers in her Cabinet, for credence. I suspect that Mrs. Leadsome might head up the 'Brexit' team. Osborne will gladly accept No. 11 - and (having had the fright of his life) may do reasonably well and it will make for stability in the eyes of the world - for now!

Cameron will not accept serving in her Cabinet, although she will offer him something (Foreign Sec. of Home Office?). Boris is too much of a wild-card for her to have him roaming freely, so I suspect that something will be offered - whether or not it is accepted is another matter.

[mikey4444]

Jourdain....as far as Boris goes, isn't there a phrase from LBJ that might help here :::::: “It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

[ichkeria]

She should give Stephen Crabb something - or would that be um sending out the wrong message ....

[Jackdaw33]

There is a precedent for an ex-PM serving as Foreign Secretary - Alec Douglas-Home.

[ichkeria]

Yes but Alec Douglas-Home didn't make an *** of himself in the face of foreign heads of state with an ill-judged referendum. Cameron might come back eventually, but given he's done 7 years as PM (again rather longer than ADH) and he was planning to step down in 2020 anyway ...

[ichkeria]

6 years, but still a bit longer than old Alec