DefSec & ex-chief whip, Gavin Williamson, – a good bet at 7/1 for next cabinet exit?
The latest of TMay's favourite's G Williamson under pressure over what happened at fireplace firm https://t.co/ODNt4ubCnu
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 29, 2018
The PM doesn’t seem to have much luck with her favourites
After losing Nick Timothy after the election, then her close Oxford friend, Damian Green, in December it looks as though the latest of the prime minister’s favourites, Gavin Williamson, could be in trouble.
The front page Guardian story won’t make comfortable reading in Downing Street this morning.
The paper is reporting that Gavin Williamson went to the Daily Mail to avoid answering questions from Guardian and then set up the Russian threat headline in the Daily Telegraph to switch attention.
What the veracity of the report is I don’t know but it is another embarrassment for TMay at a time when she herself is under great pressure.
Williamson’s appointment to the Defence Sec job in November was highly controversial given his total lack of ministerial or defence experience and the rumblings over it continue.
It has been widely suggested that Williamson is Mrs May’s choice of preferred successor whenever she steps down or is pushed.
PaddyPower have Williamson at 7/1 for next Cabinet exit.