THE EYE CANDY SHUFFLE.

No! This has nothing to do with 'Strictly Come Dancing' and won't replace the waltz, foxtrot, quickstep or even the American smooth. This week David Cameron injected considerable pulchritude into his cabinet, and we had a display of ankles entering 10 Downing Street, far more than we would see on the dance floor during the Charleston.

Naturally, it is too early to judge these new ministers, and the author is aware that some of the outgoing occupants had run their course. Quotas are, nevertheless, not what Conservatives should be doing, copying the left; the left has never had a woman leader, they just talk about it.

What this intake has to do is hit the ground floor running; there will be little time for any apprenticeship, with the next election less than a year away. The new education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has a particularly difficult brief following Michael Gove, who, to some, had set the bar too high. Unfortunately, the English education system has become bogged down with left wing dogma, this is designed to produce good little socialists, whereas Gove thinks that schooling is about the three 'Rs' plus history etc., This 'off the wall' logic is alien to the teachers' unions, particularly the Marxist National Union Of Teachers (NUT) who want to strike at the drop of a hat. One can only hope that the new incumbent will not forsake this drive for excellence.

WE SHALL SEE IN DUE COURSE.