Prime minister replacing Nadhim Zahawi amid reports he could break up business department
The cabinet will meet at 3pm, Steven Swinford from the Times reports.
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, was energy secretary in the coalition government, when energy and climate change was a stand-alone department. In an interview on the Today programme, asked about reports that Rishi Sunak is going to bring back that arrangement (see 8.38am), Davey said Sunak needed to change his policies, not just the Whitehall machinery.
I do think bringing in energy department back is a positive step.
But, by itself, changing Whitehall machinery doesn’t get you better energy policy. Changing energy policy is also what’s needed. And we’ve not really seen anything to suggest that’s going to happen.
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