Grant Shapps will be a good Conservative Party Chairman.
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Andrew Mitchell will be a good Chief Whip.
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Jeremy Hunt will be a good Health Secretary.
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This was a clever reshuffle which has put effective MPs, like Greg Clark, Michael Fallon and Liz Truss into departments where more economic activity is needed.
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One of the best appointments was the appointment of Paul Deighton, the man behind the organisation of the Olympics, to a job focusing on economic delivery.
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Because of the constraints of the Coalition the reshuffle won't make a big difference to the direction of the Government.
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The reshuffle suggests that David Cameron is focused on economic growth and overcoming Whitehall inertia.
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Justine Greening lost her job as Transport Secretary because the leadership is getting ready to U-turn on its policy towards a third runway at Heathrow.
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It was an inappropriate use of the honours system for David Cameron to give knighthoods to some of the ministers he sacked.
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David Cameron should have given ministerial jobs to David Davis and John Redwood.
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It was right for George Osborne to remain as Chancellor.
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It was right for Iain Duncan Smith to remain as Work and Pensions Secretary.
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It was right for William Hague to remain as Foreign Secretary.
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It was right for Theresa May to remain as Home Secretary.
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Chris Grayling will be closer to public opinion on prisons and human rights policy than Ken Clarke.
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David Laws should not have returned to Government given his misuse of parliamentary expenses.
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By putting David Laws into the Department of Education, Nick Clegg is trying to control Michael Gove.
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It was irresponsible of Sayeeda Warsi to leak her removal from the Chairman's office to a left-wing journalist.
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I am worried that there are not enough women in the Cabinet.
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By removing 29 MPs and Whips, David Cameron proved he has a tough streak.
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There was too much change in this reshuffle and we now have too many inexperienced ministers.
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The promotions for Chris Grayling, Owen Paterson and Theresa Villiers mean Eurosceptics are better represented in the Cabinet.
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It is good news that the Liberal Democrats have been removed from the Ministry of Defence.
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Ken Clarke is a good media performer and I am glad that his voice will still be heard in Cabinet.
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The reshuffle doesn't alter the fact that Cameron, Clegg and Osborne will still take all the big decisions.
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