Tory members give their overall verdict on the reshuffle
By Tim Montgomerie
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I've already published some of the results of our reshuffle reactions poll - your task list for Grant Shapps and your sense that the PM is getting ready to U-turn on Heathrow. Here are the results of the other questions:
Agree / disagree
KEY APPOINTMENTS
67% / 10% Grant Shapps will be a good Conservative Party Chairman
47% / 15% Andrew Mitchell will be a good Chief Whip
35% / 39% Jeremy Hunt will be a good Health Secretary
62% / 32% Ken Clarke is a good media performer and I am glad that his voice will still be heard in Cabinet
46% / 42% It was right for George Osborne to remain as Chancellor
85% / 11% It was right for William Hague to remain as Foreign Secretary
58% / 31% It was right for Theresa May to remain as Home Secretary
91% / 6% It was right for Iain Duncan Smith to remain as Work and Pensions Secretary
GROWTH AND DELIVERY
60% / 17% This was a clever reshuffle which has put effective MPs, like Greg Clark, Michael Fallon and Liz Truss into departments where more economic activity is needed
56% / 14% One of the best appointments was the appointment of Paul Deighton, the man behind the organisation of the Olympics, to a job focusing on economic delivery
52% / 30% The reshuffle suggests that David Cameron is focused on economic growth and overcoming Whitehall inertia
68% / 14% Justine Greening lost her job as Transport Secretary because the leadership is getting ready to U-turn on its policy towards a third runway at Heathrow
COALITION ISSUES
53% / 28% By putting David Laws into the Department of Education, Nick Clegg is trying to control Michael Gove
68% / 15% It is good news that the Liberal Democrats have been removed from the Ministry of Defence.
82% / 9% Chris Grayling will be closer to public opinion on prisons and human rights policy than Ken Clarke
74% / 9% The promotions for Chris Grayling, Owen Paterson and Theresa Villiers mean Eurosceptics are better represented in the Cabinet
19% / 74% I am worried that there are not enough women in the Cabinet
63% / 30% David Cameron should have given ministerial jobs to David Davis and John Redwood
OTHER QUESTIONS82% / 12% It was irresponsible of Sayeeda Warsi to leak her removal from the Chairman's office to a left-wing journalist
50% / 43% David Laws should not have returned to Government given his misuse of parliamentary expenses
63% / 28% It was an inappropriate use of the honours system for David Cameron to give knighthoods to some of the ministers he sacked
20% / 64% There was too much change in this reshuffle and we now have too many inexperienced ministers
OVERALL SIGNIFICANCE OF RESHUFFLE
90% / 5% The reshuffle doesn't alter the fact that Cameron, Clegg and Osborne will still take all the big decisions
71% / 18% Because of the constraints of the Coalition the reshuffle won't make a big difference to the direction of the Government
41% / 43% By removing 29 MPs and Whips, David Cameron proved he has a tough streak
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