David Cameron has unveiled his first all-Conservative cabinet
Amber Rudd, John Whittingdale, Greg Clark and Robert Halfon all get roles
The PM also met Conservative backbenchers for the first time since the election
David Miliband criticises his brother's Labour leadership and rules out of the Labour leadership race
UKIP rejects Nigel Farage's resignation, meaning he will stay on as leader
Labour announced its shadow cabinet, with Chris Leslie replacing Ed Balls as shadow chancellor
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The Lib Dems are also in need of a new leader, following Nick Clegg's resignation last week. One of the party's eight MPs, Tom Brake, says there should be a contest for the Lib Dem leadership as there needs to be "a debate" on why the party did so badly and the strategy for the future. He's ruled himself out of taking part in it though.
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The issue Labour have is they speak to a Metropolitan white middle to upper class these days. They just do not speak to aspirational hard working people preferring instead to focus on a politically correct elite who sit round all day reading posh cookery books in places like Hampstead. Aspirational hard working people have drifted off to the conservatives as a result and their core vote has gone to UKIP and the SNP. Just no way out until they rid themselves of this elitest and condescending metropolitan image.
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Labour MP John McDonnell says he won't vote in the Labour leadership contest. He says he didn't vote for any of the candidates last time round, because "I didn't have confidence in any of them," he adds.
In a message to his party, he says: "Slow this process down, because this is just becoming just a glamour show rather than dealing with the real political reality of what people are suffering".
Another Labour MP, Rushnara Ali, agrees on the need for "a period of reflection" but cautions against "navel gazing" - as she calls for the leadership election to be held by September.
"If we're serious about being a winning party to deliver for our constituents we have to challenge the vested interests within our party as well as we have done outside."
Asked whether she means the unions, she says:
Quote MessageI'm not talking about the unions alone. I think all of us have to be very, very self critical about looking at what's in the British people' s interests if we are to get elected. And that means being challenging to ourselves in order to elect our leader."
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So here we go again. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. 5 more years of this will be devastating for the British population. No more NHS or public services they’ll all be ran by some Tory funding company or conglomerate bringing wages down and making the working class pay for services that should be free. At no point during this campaign did the Tories mention their sell off deal for our public services and our NHS which they are secretly negotiating with the US - TTIP
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It seems to me the Labour party spends more time, "reinventing," itself and on leadership contests than it does on anything else. Maybe its time to call it a day. Drop the party name and start afresh.
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Image source, ReutersSo after that flurry of breaking news on the government reshuffle, here's a summary of who's been appointed where:
- Business Secretary: Sajid Javid
- Culture Secretary: John Whittingdale
- Energy & Climate Change Secretary: Amber Rudd
- Employment Minister: Priti Patel - attending cabinet
- Boris Johnson - attending political cabinet
- Deputy Conservative Party Chairman: Robert Halfon (pictured above)
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