Communities Secretary Greg Clark will be sacked if there is no improvement in the number of homes built in the next few years according to one of Westminster’s most respected and best informed political journalists.
Isabel Hardman, assistant editor of The Spectator, says Prime Minister David Cameron has a “new sense of mission” and is keen to take advantage of both the Conservatives’ unexpected parliamentary majority and Labour’s internal squabbles to achieve some of his party’s key goals.
Hardman, writing in The Times, says: “Some ministers have been left in no doubt that if they don’t deliver the PM’s priorities, they’ll lose their jobs.”
She says the principle applies to many but she names only one. “Greg Clark, for instance, will be sacked as Communities Secretary if he fails to get more homes built and reverse the decline in home ownership over the next few years.”