BUT FOR FLORIDA...:

Frank Field given role as poverty czar by Cameron (Isabel Oakeshott, 5/16/10, Times of London)

FRANK FIELD, the senior Labour backbencher, has been given a role in the new coalition government leading a review into tackling poverty.

The former welfare minister who became a fierce critic of his party’s immigration policy, will become a “poverty czar” under David Cameron.

In another surprise appointment, the prime minister has asked the left-wing commentator Will Hutton to lead the drive to cut public sector pay. He has been charged with drawing up a new pay system for civil servants.

The Conservatives began courting Field some months ago, triggering speculation he might be considering defecting from Labour. The former welfare minister made no secret of his frustration with Gordon Brown’s regime. He is expected to recommend new policies designed to get the poor off benefits and into work.

...this is the sort of crossover we'd have seen from W.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 15, 2010 8:30 PM