LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 3: Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Peter Kyle, arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on June 3, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Peter Kyle becomes the tenth business secretary in as many years – he should go where his predecessors didn’t and genuinely cut red tape, says Joe Hill

As Westminster calms down from a heady weekend of reshuffle-watching, new ministers will be getting to grips with their new briefs. It’s not an enviable task – when I was a civil servant, the briefing packs we prepared often ran into the hundreds of pages… and that was just the “day one” briefing!

Of all the new appointees, readers might have the most sympathy for the new business secretary, Peter Kyle. The tenth in

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