Today’s City Spy pondered that, since calls have grown for Marcus Rashford to be in charge of school policy, there might be other footballers who would make good ministers (or at least, better ones).
We had Terry Butcher as a no-nonsense home secretary. Stuart Pearce as foreign secretary – (he’s a noted diplomat).
And Harry Redknapp as chief secretary to the Treasury since no-one is better at making do with next to no resources.
Readers have other suggestions.
One writes: “Surely Arsene Wenger as Secretary of State for Education? Suspect he would genuinely be better at the job than either Gavin Williamson or Rebecca Long-Bailey.”
Sir Bobby Charlton as Heritage Secretary looks a good shout no matter who is leading the government.
We also like Darren Anderton as health minister – he has empathy for the sick and injured.
Graeme le Saux is our culture minister. (He used to read The Guardian).
Joey Barton as prisons minister (close personal interest in the subject) and Kyle Walker, chief whip. (It’s a sordid tale.)
Two left field picks. Ian King of Sky News thinks we should have “the bloke who drives Plymouth Argyle’s team bus as Secretary of State for Transport – no-one will be more familiar with which parts of the road network most need patching up.”
And finally, Matt Le Tissier as Brexit minister. He'd do absolutely nothing for ages, then right at the death, pull off a blinding trade agreement.
