Deliver PM’S agenda or you’re fired

MINISTERS face the chop if they spend too much time touringtv studios and fail to get on with the job of delivering his priorities for Britain.

The Prime Minister has confirmed a major reshuffle will take place before the Parliamentary recess in the middle of February.

Those who have shown they have “quietly got on with the job” will be rewarded, Downing Street has indicated.

It is also understood Boris Johnson wants to promote more women in the reshuffle as well as some of the MPS elected in 2015 and 2017 from the North and Midlands.

The Number 10 policy unit, headed by Munira Mirza, will be writing to all secretaries of state in the coming weeks to outline the Prime Minister’s key priorities.

The letter will emphasise ministers’

‘No more touring the TV studios’

ability to deliver the PM’S agenda will be the key demand, rather than building up a media profile, touring studios or having lunches with journalists.

The move is part of major changes to Whitehall threatened by the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Dominic Cummings, who wants to challenge thinking withinwhitehall.

It is also a reaction to problems within Theresa May’s administration when the former PM lost control of her ministers who gave interviews without seeking permission.

A Downing street source said: “In his time in office, the Prime Minister has been consistently clear that this Government will reward competence and hard work.

“We’ve been impressed by members of the Cabinet and junior ministers who have quietly got on with driving real change within their departments and delivering on the PM’S priority to level up our country.”