Reshuffle: Mark Pritchard and Andrew George on moves

4 September 2012 Last updated at 09:47 ET Help

Tory backbencher Mark Pritchard praised the appointment of Grant Shapps as the new party chairman saying "we really needed a party chairman who was elected to the House of Commons".

He is taking over from Baroness Warsi, who had made a public appeal at the weekend to keep her job.

Liberal Democrat backbencher Andrew George said the changes looked "enthralling and interesting " but also "brutal" as they had seen Caroline Spelman and Sir George Young lose their jobs.

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