The ministerial merry-go-round has come to a stop again with a raft of new faces pledging to bring fresh thinking to some longstanding problems. A new children's minister will immediately come under pressure to resolve the SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) funding crisis and a new civil society minister will be urged to follow through on the commitments made by her predecessor around a Youth Charter.
Of course for most young people the names Kemi Badenoch MP and Baroness Diana Barran will mean nothing - unlike the names Aqua and Nyhrox, the surprise winners of the duos competition at the recent Fortnite World Cup event in New York. Which of these two partnerships will have the biggest impact on the aspirations and life chances of young people is an interesting - and open - question.
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