Blair Under Fire over Reshuffle

World | May 10, 2005, Tuesday // 00:00
Blair Under Fire over Reshuffle UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing criticism for using his reshuffle to appoint one of his policy advisers as a minister. Blair also reappointed former immigration minister Beverley Hughes who had to quit after a visa row. Photo by BBC

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing criticism for using his reshuffle to appoint one of his policy advisers as a minister. Andrew Adonis, said to be the driving force behind the controversial top-up fees policy, has been given a peerage and a job in the education department. Other appointments include former immigration minister Beverley Hughes who had to quit after a visa row. Hughes, who becomes children's minister, stepped down last year after "unwittingly" misleading people over her knowledge of lax visa checks on Romanian and Bulgarian applicants.

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