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| Sayeeda Warsi - destined for great things? |
David Cameron slightly shuffled his pack yesterday, giving Greg Clark as seat in the Shadow Cabinet in response to the creation of a new government department for Climate Change and Energy (or Hot Air as some Whitehall officials are already calling it).
But the real movement will come in a few weeks, whenever the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner issues his report on Nannygate.
Nannygate? Remember, the remarkable tale of Tory party Chair"man" Caroline Spelman, who paid her nanny to act as a secretary.
Mrs Spelman denies all wrong-doing and has strenuously protested her innocence.
However, the report is expected to make uncomfortable reading, even if she is cleared by John Lyons.
And there is already a queue of applicants for one of the plum jobs in the Shadow Cabinet.
So far the smart money has been on Shadow Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Both spent the Tory Party conference quietly (or not so quietly in Eric's case) putting themselves about.
But I'm told the smart money is on Sayeeda Warsi, the highly-rated baroness who currently has the very Dave Cameron title "Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action".
It was Sayeeda who took to the stage in Manchester before the Leader's Speech, not Mrs Spelman.
And it is Sayeeda who has been winning votes in many of the poorer constituencies in cities across the country that were once Labour safe havens but are now fair game for the Tories.
Put a tenner on ... it could be a nice little earner.
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