What to expect from Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle

Nervous ministers will be waiting to find out who’s up, down and out next week, says Ashley Cowburn

The PM now has the political authority to drastically reshape the cabinet (Reuters)

You’ve have to be absolutely determined to get what you want because if you compromise you’ll live to regret it afterwards,” says Lance Price, a former deputy communications director under Tony Blair, when asked what advice he would give Boris Johnson when conducting his reshuffle.

“If you keep on somebody that you don’t think is very good, that they’ve made a terrible fuss and it all gets too embarrassing, so because you run out of patience just to let them stay – don’t ever do that,” he adds.

Cabinet ministers will hardly be appreciative of this advice as they nervously await a phone call from the Downing Street switchboard to inform whether they are up, down or out of Johnson’s top team.