Cabinet churn is disrupting Britain’s government
Ministerial life expectancy in some departments is less than a year
AFTER AMBER RUDD quit the government on September 7th, Thérèse Coffey became the seventh work and pensions secretary in little more than three years. Since the 2016 referendum the cabinet has been churning, making it harder still to fix problems like Universal Credit (Ms Coffey’s task), scarce housing and rising knife crime.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Cabinet churn is disrupting Britain’s government”
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