grandad wrote:
captain cab wrote:
I have a solution - stop all benefits and sterilize the feckless.
You are to late to apply for the post left vacant by IDS.

To be in the Cabinet, CC would have to be an elected MP or, perhaps, be elevated to the House of Lords.
As I put elsewhere, I like extreme scenarios.

It is not beyond precedence.
Occasionally cabinet members are selected from outside the Houses of Parliament and if necessary granted a peerage. Harold Wilson appointed Frank Cousins and Patrick Gordon Walker to the 1964 cabinet despite their not being MPs at the time.