Comments on the recent Government reshuffle from the
Conservative Home blog:
Housing may be seen to have been demoted. Mark Prisk, who has left the Government, was
a fully-fledged Minister of State. By my count, the Department now has no
Minister of State at all, and four Under-Secretaries: Nick Boles (Planning),
Brandon Lewis (Local Government), Stephen Williams (Communities) and Kris
Hopkins, who Departmental sources say will take the lead on housing. I intend no disrespect to the latter by
pointing out that the interest groups and others will inevitably see the loss
of a Minister of State as a loss of status for housing itself. It is certainly
an odd signal to send at a time when housing is a crucial political
battleground, when Ed Miliband is fighting for its possession, and the
Government is making such a push with Help to Buy.
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