Premiership of Tony Blair 18 councils. This result was thought to be partly continued fallout from public dissatisfaction over the decision to invade Iraq, and partly due to a scandal concerning the Home Office's mishandling of the deportation of foreign criminals. At the same time, an affair of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott with his diary secretary had been made public. Further, some Primary care and Hospital Trust sustained significant deficits and had to release staff, which called into question the position of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. On 5 May, Blair reshuffled his Cabinet. Most significantly, Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Foreign Secretary Jack
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Sweden) State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Sweden) The Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs () is the highest position below the rank of cabinet minister at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. , Annika Söder is State Secretary. The title can alternatively be translated as "Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs" or "Secretary General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs" For historical reasons, this position has a different title in Swedish than the other State Secretaries of the Swedish government; the other posts are termed "statssekreterare". Before 1945, in a situation where the political head of the ministry often changed rapidly, the