The first - faint - jolt of a series of tremors to shake the Government and
especially the Cameronistas of the Party in the coming weeks, has been registered. Chancellor George Osborne has
been stripped of his other successful job in the past, that of chief election
strategist for the 2015 general election. It is only the first of a number of
concessions to be made by the Tory front office to Boris Johnson, who is slated to take
the reigns of the Conservatives at some point in the future.
Ahead of the September government shake-up, George Osborne has to worry
about his cabinet post too. There is general dissatisfaction among the Party
rank-and-file, who want more decisive action on economic growth and the labour
market. Osborne's plan to grant the Bank of England a greater sway over banking
regulation has been criticized at City Hall and academics as "handing undue
powers to unelected officials," such as the widely ridiculed and dismissed
governor Mervyn King.
The new strong man at 30 Millbank to run the 2015 campaign will be Lynton
Crosby who ran the successful campaing to get Britain's #1 politician re-elected
as London Mayor earlier this year. PM Cameron is also under mounting pressure to
recall Dr Liam Fox to the cabinet as a credible counter-weight to the bothersome LibDems.
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