Changing faces at No 10
The prime minister's chief of staff Tom Scholar is leaving Downing Street to be replaced by the man who was Tony Blair's principal private secretary, Jeremy Heywood.
The move is an effort to strengthen the organisation of No 10 which has been criticised for poor organisation and slow decision making ever since Mr Brown became prime minister. Mr Heywood will now be the senior civil servant inside No 10 working alongside another recent appointment Stephen Carter, the ex-boss of Ofcom, who was recently appointed as the PM's senior political adviser.
Mr Scholar is returning to the Treasury to carry out an important job as managing director, international issues and finance. That means that he will be in charge of domestic and global markets and institutions, taking responsibility for efforts to secure greater co-ordination between international institutions and governments to prevent another crisis like that caused by the credit crunch.
Mr Heywood was head of domestic policy and strategy for Mr Brown and so now moves from the cabinet office to No 10.
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This is a contrarian, short term, British approach to running Brown's inner team and should be discouraged.
All hail the blessed leader! Let him retunr to his dithering ways.
Deckchairs and Titanic come to mind!
This is a contrarian, short term, British approach to running Brown's inner team and should be discouraged.
All hail the blessed leader! Let him retunr to his dithering ways.
So, if I understand you correctly, Tom Scholar who evidently did a poor job at No. 10 (otherwise he wouldn't have been replaced) is "returning to the Treasury to carry out an important job as managing director, international issues and finance ...taking responsibility for efforts to secure greater co-ordination between international institutions and governments to prevent another crisis like that caused by the credit crunch".
Are we supposed to be reassured by cast-off, useless political appointees?
Slow decision making? What about irrelevant decision making or pathetic decision making?!