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British Premier Cameron unveils new cabinet

Monday, 11 May 2015 5:20 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 11 May 2015 5:20 PM ]

File photo of a cabinet meeting of UK PM David Cameron

The British prime minister has announced his new cabinet after the UK’s ruling Conservative Party won its first parliamentary majority in two decades on May 7.

For his second term in office, David Cameron effectively kept many ministers in their posts, especially those holding key cabinet positions like George Osborne as Finance Secretary, Theresa May as Home Secretary, Philip Hammond and Michael Fallon as Foreign and Defense Secretaries.

Now Press TV correspondent in London Narges Moballeghi says, “There has been a real injection of women cabinet ministers into this new cabinet and of course the old faces and I am sure lots of people wouldn’t be too happy about that.”

She also pointed to some complaints in the cabinet makeup, noting, “Teachers are already complaining and are not happy about Nicky Morgan being reappointed as education secretary.”

“Even if there are new faces there is certainly not going to be new strategy. The Tories are already going to fast-track a lot of the cuts that they wanted to implement.”

She further said, “The first real indicator of how the Liberal Democrats were in the government is to see how much of a change there is now that the Tories are doing this alone and you might soon find out that the Lib Dems were holding the tide against austerity and some other less popular strategies.

Cameron’s new cabinet faces the challenge of holding a referendum on Britain’s continued membership in the EU in 2017. That’s besides tackling a budget deficit of around 140 billion dollars by 2019.

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