Jan 29 2007
Why John Reid is in the spotlight
Many of the government’s departments are chaotic under this government. There is a lack of intelligent strategic leadership by senior Ministers, and a complete failure by many junior Ministers to follow up the detail to ensure they
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Another way of putting this is that he is being shafted by his officials who are presumably the source of many of the leaks, that he is acting in impossible circumstances & that Britain would be much better governed if those “in charge” really had the powers to treat civil servants the way employees elsewhere are.
To which the answer would appear to be - yes shadow minister.