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[NilSatisOptimum]

Someone needs bitty time...

 

[PaddyJames]

I wonder if Laura Kuenssberg will be part of the re-shuffle.

 

[tsubaki]

Someone needs bitty time...

Raging Raab Recks Room!

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Raging Raab Recks Room!

Hope he knows the value of room wrecking industry and toy throwing from pram sector...

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Reshuffle live: 'Very angry' Dominic Raab demoted to justice secretary and deputy PM - with three others sacked

Boris Johnson is reshuffling his cabinet, with Dominic Raab demoted to justice secretary and deputy PM, and Gavin Williamson, Robert Jenrick and Robert Buckland all sacked.

news.sky.com

Oh gawd if Boris cops it, Raab is PM, is there no end to our purgatory.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Shame Boris didn't reshuffle himself.

 

[tsubaki]

Reshuffle live: 'Very angry' Dominic Raab demoted to justice secretary and deputy PM - with three others sacked

Boris Johnson is reshuffling his cabinet, with Dominic Raab demoted to justice secretary and deputy PM, and Gavin Williamson, Robert Jenrick and Robert Buckland all sacked.

news.sky.com

Oh gawd if Boris cops it, Raab is PM, is there no end to our purgatory.

he wouldn’t be - Deputy PMs are only for when a PM isn’t available, if the PM no longer exists they will just get a replacement PM

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

he wouldn’t be - Deputy PMs are only for when a PM isn’t available, if the PM no longer exists they will just get a replacement PM

Surely Raab would be PM while party donors looked for the replacement...

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Truss enters number 10... Foreign Secretary maybe!
We will be at war with Lichtenstein by Christmas.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It's war with Lichtenstein!

Cabinet reshuffle: Liz Truss gets foreign secretary job after Dominic Raab moved out

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has replaced Dominic Raab as foreign secretary.

news.sky.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

This reshuffle is like shuffling the deck chairs around on the Titanic. A cabinet reshuffle of the sycophants who will be thrown under a bus when required to save Johnson's political neck.

Was always said Williamson had all the gossip and indiscretions on others. Raab gets sacked and ends with three jobs, it's he who has the little black book.

 

[tsubaki]

Surely Raab would be PM while party donors looked for the replacement...

nope, it would be someone who could convince the Queen that they could command a majority of the Commons (basically there would be no PM until that had been agreed)

 

[roydo]

nope, it would be someone who could convince the Queen that they could command a majority of the Commons (basically there would be no PM until that had been agreed)

Pretty sure Rabb would be in situ till the Tories elected a new leader. He or She would then assume the job of PM.

 

[PaddyJames]

 

[tsubaki]

Pretty sure Rabb would be in situ till the Tories elected a new leader. He or She would then assume the job of PM.

That isn’t how it’s ever worked in the past - they (senior government figures and MPs) usually decide who will be PM very quickly and then that person goes to the Palace.

The idea of a “caretaker” PM isn’t one that has ever existed in our constitution, except when an already existing PM has announced they are stepping down but hold office until a successor can be elected by the party.

After all the people who get the office Deputy PM tend to be the ones who absolutely wouldn’t be the successor in the event of a sudden event - eg Prescott being deputy PM for Blair, or Clegg being deputy for Cameron, and now Raab.

If Johnson popped his clogs overnight would Raab be PM tomorrow morning? Almost certainly not, they’d just go with the one who was most able to get another government together.