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| Westminster - live updates: Jeremy Hunt remains Health Secretary with added brief of 'social care' amid Cabinet reshuffle | Westminster - live updates: Jeremy Hunt remains Health Secretary with added brief of 'social care' amid Cabinet reshuffle |
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| Theresa May has started her new year’s reshuffle in a bid to reassert her authority after the calamitous election result last summer. | |
| It quickly descended into chaos when the Conservatives’ official Twitter account accidentally put out that Transport Secretary Chris Grayling would become party chairman - before Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis was named shortly after. | It quickly descended into chaos when the Conservatives’ official Twitter account accidentally put out that Transport Secretary Chris Grayling would become party chairman - before Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis was named shortly after. |
| Ms May appointed former Justice Secretary David Lidington to replace her ally Damian Green, who was sacked as the Cabinet Office minister and de facto Prime Minister last month for misleading statements over pornography found on his office computer. | Ms May appointed former Justice Secretary David Lidington to replace her ally Damian Green, who was sacked as the Cabinet Office minister and de facto Prime Minister last month for misleading statements over pornography found on his office computer. |
| Most Cabinet 'big beasts' such as Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd kept their jobs, while Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has also kept his position as Secretary of State for Health, with the added brief of "social care". | Most Cabinet 'big beasts' such as Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd kept their jobs, while Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has also kept his position as Secretary of State for Health, with the added brief of "social care". |
| Please see the live updates below | Please see the live updates below |