Competent cabinets

The cabinet reshuffle has hardly been an exercise in gleaming meritocracy: after much trailing that it would change the gender profile, just two women were added to the numbers of full cabinet members.  This is not, at all, a snide comment on the competences of those who have been promoted.   It is simply that the exercise seems to have been very largely to do with presentation, and not at all to do with competence.  And that's not only unhelpful to the supposed  beneficiaries but runs directly against the cause it's supposedly espousing - better recognition for women. It's good that David Cameron has been sparing in his reshuffles.  Whether…
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