West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin has been promoted.
Having walked into Number 10 Downing Street this morning as Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for procurement at the MoD, she emerged, after talking to Prime Minister Theresa May, as Boris Johnson’s number two - Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth office for International Development.
That’s a promotion in terms of the job, and probably, in the prestige of the Department she will help lead.
Mrs Baldwin said: “I’m obviously delighted to be promoted into the new role working as a Minister of State across the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development. I look forward to working on behalf of Global Britain, using our soft power to further peace and security at home and abroad. “
(And certainly her new offices will be much grander.)
That throws up the interesting prospect of Mrs Baldwin, who was a strong and vocal Remainer before the EU referendum in 2016 working with Mr Johnson – one of the leading lights of the leave campaign and one of the cabinet’s biggest Brexiteers.
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