MP senior conservative Alan Duncan, who was caught complaining that members of the parliament were going to live on “rations”, has been relegated from being the Commons shadow cabinet leader to being the shadow prisons minister.
Duncan, the Rutland and Melton MP, is no longer part of the shadow cabinet right after David Cameron, the leader of the Tory, announced his demotion.
He replaces former shadow minister, Edward Garnier, who is now assigned as the new shadow attorney general.
His new position was also formerly held by Dominic Grieve, the present shadow justice secretary.
Cameron commented, “I’m grateful for Alan’s work as shadow leader of the House and I’m sure he will continue to make a valuable contribution as shadow justice minister”.
The replacement to the position will be declared in the policy speech on Tuesday, during which Cameron is anticipated to announce plans that will “cut the cost of politics”.
Duncan, who used to hold the position of the Tory on MPs’ expenses, regarded the demotion as a “sensible decision”. According to him, he was actually “very happy” in his new job.
He stated, “This is a sensible decision. You have to be realistic about how difficult the expenses issue has been. What matters most is winning the election and David Cameron becoming the prime minister. I don’t want to be a brake on that by making a difficult issue more problematic. I am very happy to get stuck into another job.”
In July, Heydon Prowse of Don’t Panic magazine secretly filmed Duncan complaining regarding the changes on the MPs’ expenses system.
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This should have happened at the time.