New PM Liz Truss begins to appoint cabinet-UPDATED-1

New PM Liz Truss begins to appoint cabinet-UPDATED-1
# 07 September 2022 05:18 (UTC +04:00)

New prime minister Liz Truss has started the process of appointing her cabinet after being officially asked by the Queen to form a new government, APA reports citing The Guardian.

Here’s the full list of cabinet appointments as things stand,

The Cabinet

  • Prime Minister Liz Truss

  • Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary Thérèse Coffey

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng

  • Foreign Secretary James Cleverly

  • Home Secretary Suella Braverman QC

  • Defence Secretary Ben Wallace

  • Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor Brandon Lewis

  • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and Minister for Equalities Nadhim Zahawi

  • Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council Penny Mordaunt

  • Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords Lord True

  • Minister without Portfolio Jake Berry

  • COP26 President Alok Sharma

  • Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg

  • Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Simon Clarke

  • International Trade Secretary and President of the Board of Trade Kemi Badenoch MP

  • Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith

  • Education Secretary Kit Malthouse

  • Environment Secretary Ranil Jayawardena

  • Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan

  • Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan

  • Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris

  • Scotland Secretary Alister Jack

  • Wales Secretary Sir Robert Buckland QC

Attending Cabinet

  • Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) Wendy Morton

  • Chief Secretary to the Treasury Chris Philp

  • Attorney General Michael Ellis QC

  • Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office Edward Argar

  • Minister for Development at the Foreign Office Vicky Ford

  • Minister for Security at the Home Department Tom Tugendhat

  • Minister for the Armed Forces and Veterans at the Ministry of Defence James Heappey MP

  • Minister for Climate at the Business Department Graham Stuart MP

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New prime minister Liz Truss has started the process of appointing her cabinet after being officially asked by the Queen to form a new government, APA reports citing Eastern Daily Press.

Ms Truss has named Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis as lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice and rewarded close allies Therese Coffey and Kwasi Kwarteng with top cabinet jobs in a major reshuffle of the government.

The new prime minister appointed Mr Kwarteng as chancellor and Ms Coffey as deputy prime minister and health secretary, as she made James Cleverly the foreign secretary on Tuesday.

Former attorney general Suella Braverman has been appointed home secretary, replacing Priti Patel after she pre-emptively resigned.

In a tweet after the news was announced, Mr Lewis said: "I look forward to working with Liz Truss and colleagues across government on the many pressing issues we face. "I will work tirelessly to protect the public from serious offenders, improve the safety of our prisons, reduce reoffending and deliver swift access to justice for all."

First Ms Truss despatched former deputy PM Dominic Raab and cabinet colleagues Grant Shapps and Steve Barclay to the backbenches after they supported her rival in the Tory leadership contest.

Ms Coffey, the former work and pensions secretary who is regarded as Ms Truss’s closest friend in Westminster, replaced Mr Raab as the second in command after he described Ms Truss’s tax plans as an “electoral suicide note”.

And she took on Mr Barclay’s health brief after he too came out in support for Mr Sunak, the former chancellor who Ms Truss beat in a poll of Tory members.

Mr Kwarteng, a long-term ally of Ms Truss’s – whose appointment to No 11 had been widely expected, replaces Nadhim Zahawi in the Treasury.

Former transport minister Wendy Morton will attend Cabinet as chief whip, making her responsible for party discipline in the Commons.

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Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss started forming the cabinet, APA’s Britain bureau reports.

Initially, Therese Coffey was appointed Minister for Health and Social Care. She will also be Deputy Prime Minister.

Kwasi Kwarteng has been appointed as the new finance minister.

On the other side, James Cleverly has been appointed to the position of foreign minister in Liz Truss' new administration.

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