If NHS waiting lists and staffing problems start to be addressed, don’t rule out the Tom Wambsgans of the Cabinet 🖋️ paulwaugh for ipaperviews
monthly survey of Tory members’ viewsA record six ministers were given negative ratings by the ConHome panel. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, Business Secretary Grant Shapps and International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell, all got the thumbs down.
Indeed, the North East Cambridgeshire MP has a unique claim to fame. He is the only minister who has never been out of the top 11 for the past three years. Better than that, amid all the Tory turmoil, he’s the only one who has been in the top five consistently over the past year. Bigger names have come and gone, fallen in and out of fashion, but Barclay is Mr Consistent.
Of course, Barclay would have to overcome some pretty hefty hurdles. Not least is the question of whether he’d actually want the job. Jockeying for the leadership, rather than getting on with the day job, has damaged Suella Braverman and Barclay is unlikely to make the same mistake. And Johnson rewarded him when Sajid Javid’s shock resignation as Chancellor required a replacement in the shape of Sunak, who in turn needed to be replaced as Treasury Chief Secretary. Barclay got the nod.
He was among the few who refused to resign from Johnson’s team even as the Government imploded in the summer of 2022, rewarded with the job of Health Secretary. Crucially, however, he quickly supported his old Treasury colleague Sunak for the Tory leadership and was brought back to Health after Liz Truss’s exit.
Critics point out that he is nowhere near as polished on the media or in the Commons chamber as some other ministers. They complain that Labour’s Wes Streeting regularly out performs him, indeed mocks him as the epitome of a tired Tory regime trying to project itself as “new”.
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