Theresa May’s blunt stiletto

Theresa May’s cabinet revamp “fell flat” after senior ministers derailed her reshuffle, says Emily Hohler.

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It was the "night of the blunt stiletto", said one government source. Theresa May's cabinet revamp "fell flat" after senior ministers derailed her reshuffle by "refusing to budge", say Jack Maidment and Kate McCann in The Daily Telegraph. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has been in his post for nearly six years, turned down the job of business secretary and instead emerged with the new "beefed-up title" of secretary of state for health and social care.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.