The cabinet

Predicting the cabinet that will presumably be announced tomorrow is a fun game and one that Mrs NotaSheep and I were playing around with yesterday evening - it's all fun and games in this house!

Mrs NotaSheep peaked early by predicting Nick Clegg as Deputy PM and then losing interest in the process.

My predictions I blogged earlier today:

'Vince Cable as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, a senior LibDem getting Foreign Secretary and a couple of minor positions - any more than that and David Cameron has given too much away/Nick Clegg has negotiated very well. I presume that Chancellor and Home Secretary will be Conservative positions, maybe with David Davis as Home Secretary. Ken Clarke is one problem, will he be happy with staying at Business and not having an expanded portfolio as a number 1.5 to George Osborne? Mind you he will be happy to have some more Europhiles in the government. William Hague also loses his non-official deputy Prime Minister spot, what will he require to placate him?'

At home last night I had predicted/hoped/feared Ken Clarke to be Chancellor of the Exchequer rather than George Osborne but I wasn't sure that David Cameron would be strong enough to move his friend down a rung and I am still not. However Ken Clarke as Chancellor would have the big advantage of being able to remind the Labour party of the contrast between the golden economic legacy he left them in 1997 and the economic mess Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have left him in return. Of course he is an irredeemable Europhile but that might help cement relations with the Lib Dems, although that will upset the likes of John Redwood and me. With Ken Clarke as Chancellor and Vince Clarke as Chief Secretary then that does mean George Osborne as Business Secretary. It'll be an odd team and what will happen to Philip Hammond, whose star had been rising? But then again it's stronger than Alistair Darling, Peter Mandelson and Liam Byrne.

Tomorrow we will know the answers...