Hilary Armstrong, former Chief Whip and currently Cabinet Office minister, is leaving the government at the same time as Tony Blair, John Prescott and John Reid on June 27.
Like Reid, who said he was leaving to give Gordon "maximum opportunity to Gordon to bring in new people," Armstrong has given the same basic message, saying that "I want to give Gordon Brown some space in his Cabinet to renew."
Which, of course as Ben Brogan points outs, translates as "I wanted to save Gordon Brown the trouble of binning me." Like Reid, she has almost certainly been told that there is no place for her in Gordo's new-look [but same substance] government. Unlike Brogan, I see it less as "quite the honourable way to go", but more as a way by which she can save face by leaving rather than actually being binned.
Source: BBC
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11 June 2007
Armstrong Does A Reid
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