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Is there a Gove in the house? The Prime Minister is considering how to reshuffle his cabinet once the summer parliamentary recess is over. He is in urgent need of a new health secretary and there is Whitehall chatter he’ll send for reformer and moderniser Michael Gove, who used to run the education department.
Elsewhere, the departure of the Defence Secretary means this could be a wide-ranging reshuffle. It’s Rishi Sunak‘s last chance to reconstruct the government before the long run-in to the general election, expected next autumn.
