Anneliese Midgley used to be married to Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne, of the serious popular music press in its last golden days, and of two rather good histories of pop music, Yeah Yeah Yeah and Let’s Do It. Having swum in such waters and run with such packs, she will find it a doddle to be Chief Whip, especially since, though herself from the Knowsley for which she now sat, she had dealt with Home Counties cool kids such as gravitated towards the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Wes Streeting at Defence will be worth watching, because in 2024 it was Gaza that cut his majority by 90 per cent, from 5,198 to 528. Everything about Chris Bryant seems to have been designed to blow the minds of Northern Ireland’s politicians, although its general population will be quite unphased. And Bryant has replaced one dynastic fag end at the same time as another line has entered the Cabinet for the first and last time. They are very much of a type: Constantine XI Palaeologus, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Charles X, Nicholas II, Puyi, Mehmed VI, Hilary Benn, Stephen Kinnock. For now, and possibly forever, Andy Burnham is the only Labour Prime Minister never to have had a Benn in his Cabinet. But imagine knowing that the most distinguished member of your family was Stephen Kinnock.
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