Latest editorial
Two spectres from New Labour era appointed junior ministers
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair campaigning alongside former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, May 3, 2010
TWO spectres from the New Labour era have been appointed as junior ministers by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Former home secretary Jacqui Smith and Douglas Alexander, transport secretary under Tony Blair and international development secretary under Gordon Brown, have both returned to the fold.
Ms Smith will enter the House of Lords to become an education minister and Mr Alexander, back as an MP after losing his seat in 2015, is now a business minister.
Similar stories
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests