Inside Westminster Torsten Bell is already spoken of as a future chancellor. When he was elected as an MP for Swansea West in last year’s general election, it was speculated that he might be immediately promoted to the government’s front bench.
And now, Bell, the 42-year-old former head of the Resolution Foundation, has taken the first major step in his widely anticipated political journey. On Tuesday, Bell was appointed to a joint role as both the new pensions minister and a Treasury minister, after Tulip Siddiq’s resignation following an investigation into claims her family had embezzled up to £3.9m in Bangladesh.
