Fifth Osborne ministry
Fifth Osborne ministry | |
|---|---|
 ministry of the Union of Esthursia | |
 Osborne in 2023 | |
| Date formed | 1 November 2023 |
| People | |
| King | Arthur VI |
| Forethane | Harold Osborne |
| Afterthane | Jeremy Wilson |
| No. of ministers | 30 |
| Member party | |
| Status in legislature | Majority 100 / 200 (50%)
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| Opposition party | |
| 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.