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It’s a description imported from the State Department but calling the Foreign Secretary the “UK’s top diplomat” doesn’t quite work. It’s more complicated than that.

It’s hard to see a particular reason for Ian Murray’s removal as Scotland Secretary, except to allow room for change. It’s a fairly modest job post-devolution, but Murray hasn’t cocked up egregiously. He has some cause to feel rather roughly handled.

One technical observation of the reshuffle so far: Jonathan Reynolds, the new Chief Whip, will be a member of Cabinet, which Chief Whips generally are not. The new Leader of the House, Sir Alan Campbell, will merely "attend" Cabinet. I think this is A Bad Matter, on balance.

Amid all the Rayner-related reshuffle brouhaha, don't overlook the departure of the investment minister, Baroness Gustafsson, after 11 months in post. It took months to appoint her (after Ben Wegg-Prosser turned the job down). Who's next for what was billed as a key post?.

🚨 Machinery of government changes! 🚨.Pat McFadden to combine responsibility for skills with the Department of Work and Pensions.

Worth remembering that Deputy Prime Minister means only as much as the PM wants and allows it to mean. It has no inherent authority, formal powers or ministerial responsibility. It can make you vital to the government (Whitelaw) or a nuisance who’s been placated (Raab).

I can’t help but think that the early 20th century switch in table tennis from golf balls to celluloid balls must have been a striking transformation for players.

When I said that Foreign Secretary was the worst Cabinet job David Lammy could possibly have, I did *not* mean “make him Deputy Prime Minister”. I really need to be clearer, don’t I?.

The government promises its delayed Steel Strategy this autumn but is briefing that it wants the UK’s six steel manufacturers to merge. In @CapX I look at echoes of the Iron and Steel Act 1967 and ask how the government can make the industry competitive.

Second instalment of the Prime Minister’s @10DowningStreet “reset”: Baroness Shafik is appointed Chief Economic Adviser.

A question occurs to me: if Angela Rayner does have to resign her ministerial posts, will she also quit as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party?.

The National Military Establishment, by the way, was headed by the Cabinet-level Secretary of Defense; until 1949, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Air Force were also in the Cabinet.

OK, one more time for the slow kids. The Department of War was not "renamed" the Department of Defense; it was merged along with the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment in 1947. The NME was renamed the Department of Defense in 1949. Clear now?.

Dorries's move to Reform UK reminds me of Roy Jenkins (who couldn't say his Rs) announcing "We leave the Labour Party without rancour". Dennis Skinner: "I thought you were taking Marquand with you!".

Sigh. So pointless, so shallow, so ignorant, and displays the incredible brittleness of Trump and Hegseth. Not even an official change, just an executive order to give the DoD a "secondary name".

Just caught a clip of Curtis Yarvin holding forth to Unherd on how "democracy" and "politics" mean the same thing (they don't). Think that's all I needed to see.

The @HouseofCommons is considering @UKHouseofLords amendments to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill. In the @Telegraph: the government isn't serious about genuine reform. It just wants less opposition. That's why it won't compromise.

I’m not sure this will play with British voters quite as well as Farage obviously thinks it will. He has something of a blind spot when it comes to Trump.

An attractive and neat framing of François Bayrou's potential ascent to the Élysée Palace in @POLITICOEurope, but I'm not sure French voters, any more than any others, appreciate a politician who can say "I told you so".