Congratulations Justine

Justine Greening was today given a junior shadow role in the Opposition Treasury team in the House of Commons. This is one of the most challenging briefs given the dismal economic record her Party still hasn't shrugged off from its last stint in power compared to the longest period of sustained economic growth in 200 years with Labour.

But this is a great opportunity for her so congratulations, Justine. I'm sure she'll bring her accountancy skills to bear in trying to make some sense out of her Party's confused spending plans!

That means two of the borough's MPs are newly promoted: as mentioned in an earlier post, Tooting's Labour MP Sadiq Khan was appointed a juinior Government Whip last week - along with Shahid Malik the first Muslims ever to hold government positions. I think it shows that regardless of party, Wandsworth has a deep bench of high quality elected representatives; something we can all take some pride in.

UPDATE: 16.07.2007
The Wandsworth Borough News has stories on both promotions:
Sadiq Khan here
Justine Greening here