Good morning. I promise this newsletter contains no explanations of how clever it was of Boris Johnson to say he was going to move to Cincinatti in a rocket, or whatever.
In 2001, 91% of Conservative MPs were male, and every single one of them was white. As of last night, when Liz Truss confirmed the appointments of Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, Suella Braverman as home secretary and James Cleverly as foreign secretary, none of the four most senior jobs in the British government are held by a white man.
