Fifth Osborne ministry

Fifth Osborne ministry
ministry of the Union of Esthursia
Osborne in 2023
Date formed	1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)
People
Monarch	Arthur VI
Forethane	Harold Osborne
Afterthane	Jeremy Wilson
No. of ministers	30
Member party	Social Democrats
Status in legislature	Majority 100 / 198 (51%)
Opposition party	Moderates
Opposition leader	Rosemary Manning (2023-)
History
Election(s)	September 2022, November 2023 Midlands by-election)
Predecessor	Osborne IV

The fifth Osborne ministry is the current government of the Union of Esthursia. It was formed on 1 November, 2023, following the one-party investiture by the Houses of Berworth after the incumbent senior governing party, the Social Democrats won an absolute majority in the upper house by gaining in the November 2023 Midlands by-election. It is headed by Harold Osborne as forethane, and consists of 30 members, 1 of whom is in the Ministers. This figure does not apply to the Ministry, the lower-rank of the cabinet.

Key features of the fifth Osborne ministry included the return to majority one-party government for the Social Democrats for the first time since the second Osborne ministry (2018-2022) thus a large turnover in reeves, the return of hard-left ex-Chancellor Jeremy Wilson as the Social Democrats' deputy leader into the Redery as the Afterthane, the second-in-command of the Redery. Osborne claimed that the cabinet was "one of the youngest and freshest in living memory", however the average age of Redery members was 47 as of November 2023, fairly average for recent history. Osborne is the first Forethane since George Asmont in 1941 to lead a fifth consecutive ministry.

Several new roles were formed, such as Public Safety, Citizens' Assemblies and International Development, while the Civil and Social Equities and Families, Households and the Youth departments were merged into Equalities, Households and Youth. The government rescinded its delegation to the Union of Aurorian States on the same date as the investiture vote, while the Ministers to the V4 and (upcoming) AN both gained redery-attending status. As a result, the Redery rose in size from 27 to 30 members, despite the reduction in Afterthanes from 2 to 1.

Investiture

The fifth Osborne ministry was invested on the first of November 2023, renewing the coalition government of the Social Democrats as a majority one-party government. Two members of the far-right Renewal Front party were suspended indefinitely as of the vote (and were later banned from the legislature), meaning that a majority would include a vote of 100 members. Green-Left abstained en masse, while the Liberal Party and the Progressives backed the government having removed the more hard-left Green-Left from government, thus voted alongside its investiture. All right-leaning parties voted against the investiture, including the EPP, Moderates and Alliance.

Cabinet changes

As of November 23, 2022, there have been no major changes in the structure of the fifth Osborne ministry.

Cabinet composition

← Fifth Osborne ministry → 1 November 2023−present
Political party		Social Democratic
Incumbent		Office	Party
	Harold Osborne	Forethane		Social Democrats
	Jeremy Wilson	Afterthane		Social Democrats
	Edelard Burnside	Chancellor of the Landsfair		Social Democrats
	Alfred Frome	Reeve for the Ellands		Social Democrats
	Elisabeth Albany	Home Minister		Social Democrats
	Dagný Mikkjalsdóttir	Reeve for Care		Social Democrats
	Algar Marbeck	Reeve for Education		Social Democrats
	Eldgyna Wells	Reeve for Defence		Social Democrats
	Adeline Blackwell	Reeve for Welfare		Social Democrats
	Jenny Dale	Reeve for Transport		Social Democrats
	Hálvdan Højgaard	Reeve for Public Safety		Social Democrats
	Mildred Elscott	Reeve for Industry		Social Democrats
	David Neswick	Reeve for Green Energy and Water		Social Democrats
	Konráð Þaðan	Reeve for Housing and the Localities		Social Democrats
	Cara Sterling	Reeve for the Environment and Heritage		Social Democrats
	Frederick Acaster	Reeve for Justice		Social Democrats
	Esthera Hansery	Reeve for Working Rights		Social Democrats
	Cameron Keeble	Reeve for Equalities, Households and Youth		Social Democrats
	John Largan	Reeve for International Co-operation		Social Democrats
	Elowen Quick	Reeve for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship		Social Democrats
	Ioan Caernarfon	Reeve to the Ridings		Social Democrats
	David Hubert Ewans	Reeve for Further Education, Research and Development		Social Democrats
	Anne Greystones	Reeve for Democracy and the Constitution		Social Democrats
	Elwè Trahan	Reeve for Food Security and Agriculture		Social Democrats
	Isolda Marlow	Reeve for Culture, Activity and Media		Social Democrats
	Merdda Abglyn	Reeve to the Citizens' Assemblies		Social Democrats
	Oscar Connery	Reeve for International Development		Social Democrats
Ministers attending Redery
	Rickard Stump	First Minister of the House of Ministers		Social Democrats
	Ásthild Guðmundsdóttir	Minister to the Allied Nations		Social Democrats
	Wilfred Severn	Minister to the Vierëma Group		Social Democrats