I don't think the opposition to "Dr" Fox is anything to do with his views on Brexit (clearly, with this government, any appointee would have been a Brexiteer — although it's worth remembering that Fox said that agreeing a new trading relationship with the EU "would be the easiest in human history": that worked out well, didn't it?) but because of his record in government. Remember that he was sacked as defence secretary over his dubious relationship with friend and self-styled "adviser" Adam Werritty, which Michael Winstanley referred to.
A more worrying issue concerns the (non)appointment of the HoC Intelligence and Security Committee: it's now 7 months since the election and it's still vacant, although all the other committees are operating. Is it because Johnson doesn't want the Russia report released? And even worse, is to learn that the likely chairman of the committee, when it is appointed, is to be ... Chris "Failing" Grayling, who hasn't had a job that he has been in without a disaster (amongst them his "reforms" of the Justice Department which have completely unravelled at enormous cost, and his award of a very costly contract to a shipping company that had no any ships). Remarkably, this proposal produced a quite amazing political unity:
From PoliticsHome:
And from The Guardian:
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