It must be hard work being a parliamentary lobbyist for local government right now. As soon as the lobbyist gets to know the right minister there’s another Government reshuffle. We are now onto our fourth housing minister in just two years (in Kit Malthouse, a former The MJ columnist), our third communities secretary since 2015 and the bright new local government minister, Rishi Sunak, has only been in post since January. Of course all this is at the time of going to press. By Thursday they may all have changed again.