Esther’s shock Cabinet comeback
ESTHER McVey has been appointed Work and Pensions Secretary in a remarkable comeback.
The former television star, who previously attended Cabinet as an employment minister under David Cameron, was the most high-profile Tory casualty of 2015 when she was ousted from Wirral West by Labour.
She returned to Parliament last June after taking George Osborne’s former
seat in Tatton, and was made deputy chief whip in November. Now she returns to the Cabinet table in charge of the Department of Work and Pensions.
Miss McVey, 50, who found fame as a GMTV presenter, is one of the party’s strongest media performers.
She lost her seat two years ago after a union-led campaign in her constituency, which was surrounded by Labour seats.