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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. Theresa May’s attempts to reassert her authority through a Cabinet reshuffle ran into difficulties after senior minister refused to move from their jobs.
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. Education Secretary Justine Greening dramatically quit the Government when Ms May tried to move her to the Department of Work and Pensions, leaving the Prime Minister scrambling to promote junior ministers to her top team.
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. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt also spent more than 90 minutes in Downing Street where he resisted Ms May's attempts to persuade him to switch to Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and allow Business Secretary Greg Clark to take on his role.
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". Cabinet “big beasts” such as Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond and Amber Rudd all kept their jobs, which led to critics quoting her widely mocked election campaign claim that "nothing has changed" - when she made a major U-turn on a social care pledge.
Earlier, the shake-up 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 officially appointed shortly after.
Former Justice Secretary David Lidington was appointed to replace the PM's close 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.
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