Cameron’s cabinet is a Rubik’s cube no amount of reshuffling will solve| Martin Kettle

Now is the hour of the prime minister’s pomp. But his intractable problems are rising up to meet him even as he returns to Downing Street

A new prime minister is never stronger than in the hours after he takes office. So the period after he kissed hands at lunchtime to form his new single-party Conservative majority government are David Cameron’s hours of greatest power. He owes nothing to anyone and his patronage is at its apogee.

In this reshuffle he can reward, he can punish, he can uproot, he can promote and he can sideline. And no one can do anything to stop him.

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