Why Americans Should Care About Cameron Cabinet Shake-Up

This week, Cameron reshuffled about one-third of his ministers, including replacing long-time Foreign Minister William Hague with Defense Minister Philip Hammond, the appointment of Michael Fallon as the new Defense Minister, and the removal of Education Secretary Michael Gove in favor of Nicola Morgan.

Inboden writes:

In terms of foreign and defense policy, virtually all of the British commentary has focused on the ascendance of Euroskeptics, since Hammond and Fallon have both been longtime critics of the EU, as is Cameron’s new nominee for the European Commission, Lord Jonathan Hill. While this is politically understandable given Cameron’s concern about winning back UKIP voters, as a matter of geopolitics it is a small but revealing indication of Britain’s continued decline as a global power. Nowhere have I seen any commentary wondering what the Hammond and Fallon appointments will mean for big issues like Britain’s relationship with the United States, or UK policy towards Russia or the Middle East, or the dwindling UK defense budget, or any other issue or region besides the fraught UK-EU relationship.

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