There's a way to stop junior ministers having to resign for minor indiscretions: abolish them.

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John Major passed up the opportunity to do something quite mettlesome this
week. Faced with the Welsh Office vacancy created by the agency of the aberrant
Rod Richards, departure, he would have left the piece of work unfilled, saving
49,283[pounds] and striking a unassuming but symbolic blow against the
relentles increase of the ministerial in the past hundred If, as some
Westminster cynics have it, Richards, principal function was to ajutage
Tory propaganda on Welsh language radio and television, it scarcely
added a great deal of value to replace him with the non-Welsh speaker Jonathan
Evans.

While the ease of ...