David Gauke: Reshuffles aren't always bad, but if things had been going well there wouldn't have been one

David Gauke: Reshuffles aren't always bad, but if things had been going well there wouldn't have been one

David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at the 2019 general election. Last Friday morning, most of the Cabinet were out of London preparing for a day of constituency engagements.  The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, for example, was off to a Haribo factory in Pontefract. By this point of the week, the resignation of Angela Rayner was not unexpected. Over the previous two days, the iss…