Post-Partygate: time for a Cabinet reshuffle?

Rishi Sunak may be ready to promote ‘younger faces’ after Boris Johnson drama

Rishi Sunak pointing
Sunak should turn Johnson crisis ‘into a major opportunity’, said one Tory MP
(Image credit: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak has been urged to draw a line under the Partygate crisis by refreshing his top team.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.