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29-10-2022, 01:42 PM
Matilda Long·Data and Politics News Editor, Yahoo News UK
Sat, 29 October 2022 at 1:14 am
The recent turmoil in the Conservative party has seen numerous records broken.
Liz Truss made history as the UK’s shortest serving prime minister, clinging on for 49 days.
Grant Shapps holds the title of the briefest home secretary after holding the office for just less than a week in October after the sacking of Suella Braverman.
These pale in comparison to the dubious achievement of Michelle Donelan, who managed 36 hours as education secretary under Boris Johnson, before resigning as his leadership collapsed.
As well as the headache for government HR departments, the ministerial churn has a significant cost to the taxpayer.
Ministers are entitled to a quarter of their salary in severance pay when they leave the job.
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This puts the cost of cabinet reshuffles in 2022 alone at between £400,000 and £500,000, according Yahoo News UK analysis of ministerial records.
This does not include payouts to junior ministers, who are also entitled to severance pay at a lower rate.
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In the 18 years of Conservatives rule between 1979 and 1997 the UK had five chancellors, serving an average of 3.6 years each.
In just three years since Boris Johnson took power in 2019 there have been another five chancellors, serving for an average of eight months each.
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former Tory minister Rory Stewart describes his and his colleagues' tenures as "absurdly short" in a column for the Observer newspaper.
"I held five ministerial jobs in four years," he said.
"Just as I was completing my 25-year environment plan, I was made a Middle East minister.
"Just as I was trying to change our aid policy in Syria, I was made the Africa minister.
"Just as I was finishing my Africa strategy, I was moved to prisons. I promised to reduce violence in prisons in 12 months, and violence was just beginning to come down – when I was made secretary of state for international development.
"How can this be a serious way to run a country?"
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/the-eye-wateri...39964.html
Sat, 29 October 2022 at 1:14 am
The recent turmoil in the Conservative party has seen numerous records broken.
Liz Truss made history as the UK’s shortest serving prime minister, clinging on for 49 days.
Grant Shapps holds the title of the briefest home secretary after holding the office for just less than a week in October after the sacking of Suella Braverman.
These pale in comparison to the dubious achievement of Michelle Donelan, who managed 36 hours as education secretary under Boris Johnson, before resigning as his leadership collapsed.
As well as the headache for government HR departments, the ministerial churn has a significant cost to the taxpayer.
Ministers are entitled to a quarter of their salary in severance pay when they leave the job.
......
This puts the cost of cabinet reshuffles in 2022 alone at between £400,000 and £500,000, according Yahoo News UK analysis of ministerial records.
This does not include payouts to junior ministers, who are also entitled to severance pay at a lower rate.
......
In the 18 years of Conservatives rule between 1979 and 1997 the UK had five chancellors, serving an average of 3.6 years each.
In just three years since Boris Johnson took power in 2019 there have been another five chancellors, serving for an average of eight months each.
......
former Tory minister Rory Stewart describes his and his colleagues' tenures as "absurdly short" in a column for the Observer newspaper.
"I held five ministerial jobs in four years," he said.
"Just as I was completing my 25-year environment plan, I was made a Middle East minister.
"Just as I was trying to change our aid policy in Syria, I was made the Africa minister.
"Just as I was finishing my Africa strategy, I was moved to prisons. I promised to reduce violence in prisons in 12 months, and violence was just beginning to come down – when I was made secretary of state for international development.
"How can this be a serious way to run a country?"
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/the-eye-wateri...39964.html
