A friend has put forward the following ideas for inclusion in a fantasy British cabinet:
PM: Denis Healey (Labour's lost leader who was defence secretary 1964-70 and Chancellor, 76-79)
Home Secretary or possibly Minister for local government?: Joseph Chamberlain (visionary father of Tory municipal welfarism (>Birmingham) and then later a leading Tory, if not leader of the Tories, at the national level in opposition to the Lloyd George Liberal Government)
I had suggested to my friend the idea of putting Joseph Chamberlain's nephew Neville in as foreign secretary (more as a joke than a serious suggestion). On previous occasions we have discussed the idea of Shirley Williams as foreign secretary, although I will await his further thoughts on this interesing idea)
Education: Anthony Crossland (would-be destroyer of grammar schools - serial incompetent or intellectual visionary of revisionist socialism?)
I await my friend's further contribution to this list
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