6th September, 2022
UK’s Prime Minister Liz Truss has begun announcing the names of new cabinet members, with Therese Coffey as new health secretary and deputy. MTA
Coffey is a long-term political ally of Liz Truss.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary under Boris Johnson, has been made the new chancellor.
He will be in charge of the nation’s finances as soaring energy prices cause pain for households and businesses.
Also in the cabinet is James Cleverly, who is now Foreign Secretary in Liz Truss’s new government.
He will be succeeding Truss herself in the role, inheriting a fairly bulging in-tray of his own.
Another member is Suella Braverman. She succeeds Priti Patel as the new home secretary.
Braverman previously held the role of attorney general in Boris Johnson’s government and was the first person to announce her intention to stand in the Tory leadership contest earlier this year.
Wendy Morton has been given the role of chief whip in Liz Truss’s new government, responsible for party discipline.
Ben Wallace stays in his position as defence secretary.
According to BBC, Brandon Lewis is in the cabinet for a third time, replacing Dominic Raab who confirmed earlier today he would be returning to the backbenches.
Also appointed is Penny Mordaunt, who has been appointed as the new leader of the House of Commons.
Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has been named chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, minister for intergovernmental relations and equalities minister.
In the cabinet, Zahawi remains a cabinet minister.
