Vote now: who will be the next Home Secretary?
Monday, June 11th, 2007As you’ll no doubt be aware, Dr John Reid has announced that he won’t be hanging around for the inevitable Cabinet table musical chairs that will follow Gordon Brown’s leap into Number 10 - this barely over a year after Dr Reid told the Daily Mirror that he would be working “18 hours a day” to sort out the Home Office (unsurprisingly, we don’t think it’s sorted out yet).
Consequently, there’s going to be a Reid-shaped hole in the Cabinet and the troubled department will be getting another new broom. But who?
Will it be Brown’s friend and fellow Scot Alistair Darling? Will this Government’s first Home Secretary, Jack Straw, be rewarded for managing Gordon’s leadership campaign with a return to his old job? Could a strong second place in the deputy leadership contest put Hain, Benn, Blears, Harman or Johnson behind the big desk at Marsham Street? (We confess to discounting Cruddas.)
We’re big fans of democracy, so we’re leaving it up to you. (Not the appointment itself - that’s still up to Gordo.) We’ve selected ten possible replacements for Dr Reid - who do you think it’ll be?
