TEAM MAY ALL OUT: H/t to Guido for the best headline accompanying a picture of a joyous looking Theresa May with former Chief of Staff Gavin Barwell and newly liberated former ministers David Gauke and Greg Clark at the Lords cricket yesterday.
Not having such a great time: The many politicos trying to get home for their summer break, who got stuck in the rail and air meltdown. (Today’s Playbook author can sympathize after spending an hour between Diss and Norwich when the signals failed at 11.30 p.m. last night.) Hilariously the Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr, the investigative journalist who spent months looking into Vote Leave and whether it had broken election law, ended up on the same broken down train as Vote Leave’s own Darren Grimes. Perhaps former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling’s parting shot?
And bad news for Larry the cat: Top scoop from telegram data the Mirror’s Mikey Smith, who hears the new PM told staff he is planning to get a dog. Watch out for the animal dynamics — former No. 10 felines have not been impressed with having to share their space. Freya, former Chancellor George Osborne’s cat, was reportedly sent away after bullying his dog Lola. Larry is unlikely to take too kindly to a pooch encroaching on his territory.
GOVERNMENT LATEST: On Day 2 of Johnson’s reshuffle, he promoted a raft of supporters to ministerial jobs a step below Cabinet level. Here are the traditional Playbook pen portraits …
Chris Skidmore, health and social care minister: A grammar school boy from Bristol, Skidmore joins the department for health after a brief stint as universities and science minister. Before becoming an MP, Skidmore wrote several history books, most recently “Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors.”
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