The new Housing Minister is Lee Rowley - who was a former housing minister in the short lived premiership of Liz Truss.
Rowley - who since last autumn has been serving as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - now takes centre stage in charge of the Renters Reform Bill.
He replaces Rachel Maclean who this afternoon was sacked as housing minister as part of today's government reshuffle.
She tweeted: “I’ve been asked to step down from my role as Housing Minister. Disappointed and was looking forward to introducing the Renters Reform Bill to Committee tomorrow and later the Leasehold and Freehold Bill. It has been a privilege to hold the position and I wish my successor well.”
As she intimated in her tweet, Maclean was scheduled to be part of tomorrow morning’s Committee Stage session, debating the Renters Reform Bill.
Maclean, who was first elected to Parliament in 2017, was appointed to this role in February this year and was the 15th housing minister since 2010.
Housing Secretary Michael Gove - who was Maclean's boss at the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - has indicated his support for Maclean by sharing a message posted on social media by Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
Badenoch wrote of Maclean: “You were an excellent, minister, always attentive to MPs and their constituents and got some very tricky legislation over the line.”
Rowley, 43 and a Brexiteer, is MP for North East Derbyshire.
His first job out of Oxford university was as an estate agent; prior to entering parliament he spent over a decade in finance and consultancy roles at Barclays, Santander, KPMG and Co-Op Insurance.
In politics he served for eight years as a councillor at Westminster City Council, stepping down in 2014 in a bid to become an MP.
In 2020 he was appointed deputy chair of the Conservative Party but he resigned that position in 2021. He then became a junior minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and a junior government whip.
In the early summer of last year he was amongst the many ministers to resign from the government of Boris Johnson, and became an active supporter of Kemi Badenoch in the summer 2022 Conservative leadership election.
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Good riddance. A waste of space in that role: couldn't even get facts right.
As I have said many times on this forum she told me via my MP that the scottish prs supply was stable. I wonder if Edinburgh council who just declared a housing emergency know this - Im sure it will be a huge relief to them!!!
And the revolving door turns yet again. Who up next?
Treason May? Might as well get all the Remainers in the cabinet.
Is it my turn next?
(It ought to be, I’d be better than anyone of the last 16 years)
Presumably this might slow down the progress of the RRB a bit, which is therefore good news! Looks like they are rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic (again).
Apparently, Rishi Sunak is struggling to find a new housing minister willing to replace Rachel Maclean.
Boris maybe he's full of BS
I don't think he is an MP anymore.
How are you Andrew, now - most important!
Well Ellie, you kindly ask how I am, I'.m booked into Papworth for a hart valve and an aortic loop replacement on the 25th of this month, will let you know afterwards how I get on
Sounds like essential surgery. It will be over in no time and you'll be able to enjoy Christmas. I wish you the very best!
@andrew, hope all goes well, hope you have a speedy recovery
Hope all goes well for you on the day mate
Thanks for all the best wishes guys
@ Andew, Papworth is one of, if not the best heart hospital. You will be in safe hands. Having had AF and heart failure and a partner who had five stents, I know the worry heart problems can cause.
@Andrew, My advise. Don't be impatient with your recovery, I was off work for 5 months, but most are back around 3 months. Follow the instructions and advise from your health care professionals. Wishing you all the best and don't forget, if you want to contact me at any time, feel free to do so.
My parents had heart problems so I, too, know the worry associated with them.
Are you in sinus rhythm now, Annoyed landlord? There seems to be a move towards adopting pulmonary vein isolation to stop the abnormal electrical impulses which cause the AF even if there is some degree of heart failure. Eliminating the AF through PVI can increase the left ventricular ejection fraction after a few months - a small study has shown that.
@ Ellie, fortunately mine is responding to medication, but PVI is worth considering should that change. Thank you.
I know somebody who had PVI with great results, but obviously each person needs to be considered individually.
The Catheter Ablation vs Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation (CABANA)
trial randomised patients to either PVI or drug therapy (rate or
rhythm control). In patients with heart failure there was an improved outcome in the PVI group. However, PVI doesn't always lead to permanent sinus rhythm.
Best wishes Andrew and hope all goes well for you.
Ellie, neither was Cameron ! Who suddenly got enobled this morning so is now in the upper house and becomes a cabinet minister. Klaus Schwab rules ok!
You are very well informed, Edwin
Ellie
Who really picked the cabinet ? It appears to be someone who is unfamiliar with british politics, but is desperate to keep Sunak in power. One publicity stunt after another, and his popularity tanks. Normally politicians have a honeymoon period with their own party when first in power but after a few minister are sacked the knives go in. Bringing back Cameron will infuriate the red wall mps.
Edwin, Very few Conservative voters are popping champagne corks at the return of Cameron.
I haven't made a study of this, as you both have.
However, I thought it might be a good thing that Lee Rowley has become housing minister as he seemed to be advocating a "hands off" approach with respect to housing - and was appointed by Liz Truss who was initially going to scrap the Renters Reform legislaiton. We will have to wait and see.
@ Ellie, sadly Liz Truss was toppled by the money men before any of her policies were put into practice. I hope Lee has a chance to do some good.
Cameron won't have to worry about the party or the electorate. He will be pursuing globalist policies, he allowed oligarchs to run riot, shut down refining capacity so we brought Russian petroleum products and gas. Arrogant Euro freak, another ethnic German.
Good Riddance to her has done to much damage supposed to be an expert after only 5 / 6 years in Politics moved up the ladder to top like a shot.
Now we have lee Rowley from the levelling up Department who will be already infected.
What is it with those 43 year olds supposed to be experts in everything, 43 year old Premier and Ben Beadle 43 years I think a consultant in everything.
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