And it sends out a strong message to the EU too

Boris Johnson isn’t messing about. With his record breaking cull of non-believers from the Cabinet, it’s clear that he is keen to stamp his authority over his administration from day one. The Cabinet has decidedly shifted in the direction of champions of freedom and democracy. The Remainers are leaving and the Leavers are remaining.

Whilst Remainers and centrists like Rory Stewart and David Gauke ejected themselves before Boris Day, today saw the unprecedented expulsion of a further thirteen Cabinet level ministers from the Government. More than half the people who sat in the Cabinet this morning were out by the early evening.

This bold approach has the fingerprints of Vote Leave supremo Dominic Cummings all over it. Famously effective (and abrasive), it is easy to see that his touch will make this administration one of conviction not capitulation. This will be a Government that keeps people in like by daring them to bring it down and usher in Corbyn. The May tactic of keeping Remain agitators in the Cabinet just so they don’t make life difficult on the back benches has been thoroughly ditched, and for good reason.