How can Cameron, who has not been elected as an MP, become a Cabinet Minister? Surely can’t be right!!
It is not the first time someone has been placed into the Cabinet via way of being given a Peerage.
Gordon Brown, when PM did exactly the same in 2008 when he parachuted Peter Mandelson into the Cabinet by way of giving him a peerage.
Maggie appointed a Peer to the Cabinet back in 1979 when she appointed Lord Carrington the Foreign Secretary.
Going back even further, the UK almost ended up with a Prime Minister who was a Lord – it was a toss-up between Lord Halifax (who was Foreign Secretary) or Winston Churchill for PM when Neville Chamberlain was forced to resign as PM back in 1940. Fortunately, Churchill became PM and the rest is history…………..
So, there is plenty of historic precedence for a Peer to be sat around the Cabinet table.