This just in from Sir Humphrey Beeching...
My former colleagues tell me that the delay in announcing the Department for Transport ministerial team was due to the time taken in matching faces to names.
When the PM wrote in 'Hammond' for SoS it took some time work work out whether he meant Hammond P, the doctor and comedian who was a huge success at a recent railway function, Hammond S, the shadow minister, or Hammond P the treasury shadow.
Although Dr Phil came close to a seat in the Lords as a working peer, the money man won through.
The Department is now struggling with Junior Ministerial appointments, where 'Baker' was pencilled in.
Does that mean veteran Tory Kenneth, who knows nothing about railways, Lib Dem Shadow Norman who knows a bit about railways or DfT's own Stuart who knows everything about railways.
Watch this space...
Grimsby and Back
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