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Geoffrey Cox remains as attorney general, Number 10 has announced.
From Sky’s Beth Rigby
Jo Johnson into No 10
From the Times’ Steven Swinford
Unfilled Cabinet roles:Chief Sec to the TreasuryLeader of the HouseChairman Immigration ministerAttorney GeneralThose in the mix:Geoffrey CoxJacob Rees-MoggEsther McVeyRishi SunakJames CleverlyJake BerryBrandon Lewis
From the new international development secretary, Alok Sharma
Hugely honoured to be appointed Secretary of State for ⁦@DFID_UK⁩ by Prime Minister ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩ - straight into briefings at the department with the brilliant Permanent Secretary ⁦@MatthewRycroft1⁩ who I had the pleasure to work with ⁦@foreignoffice⁩ pic.twitter.com/hnW2t8DQPN
Natalie Evans remains as leader of the Lords, Number 10 has announced. Her full title is Lady Evans of Bowes Park.
From the Press Association’s Ian Jones
Theresa May's premiership has been bookended by massive Cabinet clearouts.Half of Cameron's final Cabinet (15 of 30) didn't make it into May's first Cabinet. 18 out of 30 in May's final Cabinet haven't made it into Johnson's Cabinet.
Alister Jack is the new Scottish secretary. He was only elected to parliament two years ago, as MP for Dumfries and Galloway, and he only joined the government as a whip earlier this year. It is very unusual for an MP to make cabinet this quickly. But the Tories only have 13 MPs in Scotland, and so Boris Johnson’s options were limited.
Julian Smith have been moved from chief whip to Northern Ireland secretary. Technically that counts as a promotion, because as chief whip Smith attended cabinet without being a full member, but it probably won’t feel like that. As chief whip, he was very much at the centre of government decision-making. In his new job, he will be much more peripheral.
From Stephen Barclay, who remains as Brexit secretary
I’m deeply honoured that Prime Minister @BorisJohnson has asked me to continue in my role as #Brexit Secretary. It is time to energise the country to get Brexit delivered by October 31 pic.twitter.com/xKaTKmaH7e
From the BBC’s Nick Robinson
Is this @BorisJohnson’s new strategy? Prep for No Deal & hope EU blinks. If not, go for No Deal & hope parliament blinks. If not, go for an election
Alun Cairns stays as Welsh secretary, Number 10 has announced.
Grant Shapps has returned to cabinet as transport secretary. Shapps sat in cabinet when he was Conservative chairman under David Cameron. He voted remain in 2016, but he led a failed plot to get rid of Theresa May in 2017 and has been a key figure in the Boris Johnson campaign. As Johnson was deciding how to win over MPs, he relied heavily on a remarkably detailed spreadsheet prepared by Shapps which catalogued MPs’ views on all manner of conceivable topics.Grant Shapps has returned to cabinet as transport secretary. Shapps sat in cabinet when he was Conservative chairman under David Cameron. He voted remain in 2016, but he led a failed plot to get rid of Theresa May in 2017 and has been a key figure in the Boris Johnson campaign. As Johnson was deciding how to win over MPs, he relied heavily on a remarkably detailed spreadsheet prepared by Shapps which catalogued MPs’ views on all manner of conceivable topics.
This is from my colleague Peter Walker on the new housing secretary.This is from my colleague Peter Walker on the new housing secretary.
The new cabinet minister in charge of housing, ladies and gentlemen. pic.twitter.com/Waf1bqQ4UoThe new cabinet minister in charge of housing, ladies and gentlemen. pic.twitter.com/Waf1bqQ4Uo
Alok Sharma, the employment minister, has been promoted to cabinet, joining as international development secretary. He backed remain in 2016, but he was a junior minister under Boris Johnson at the Foreign Office and has been a high-profile supporter of his leadership campaign.Alok Sharma, the employment minister, has been promoted to cabinet, joining as international development secretary. He backed remain in 2016, but he was a junior minister under Boris Johnson at the Foreign Office and has been a high-profile supporter of his leadership campaign.
Robert Buckland, the former solicitor general who is currently prisons minister, has been promoted to lord chancellor and justice secretary. He will voted remain in 2016. Robert Buckland, the former solicitor general who is currently prisons minister, has been promoted to lord chancellor and justice secretary. He voted remain in 2016.
Here are more pictures from the protest against Boris Johnson outside Number 10.Here are more pictures from the protest against Boris Johnson outside Number 10.
Amber Rudd remains as work and pensions secretary, Number 10 has announced. Her decision to resign herself to a no-deal Brexit being an acceptable outcome seems to have paid off.Amber Rudd remains as work and pensions secretary, Number 10 has announced. Her decision to resign herself to a no-deal Brexit being an acceptable outcome seems to have paid off.
Protesters have been marching down Whitehall, past Downing Street, shouting “Fuck off back to Eton” at the new prime minister, who is in his Number 10 office a few hundred yards away. This is from the BBC’s Joey D’Urso.
A very profane protest against Boris Johnson pic.twitter.com/LfqIajFUkZ
Robert Jenrick, a Treasury minister, has been promoted to the cabinet, where he will be secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. Jenrick voted remain in 2016, but he has been an enthusiastic support of Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign.
Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general and one of the MPs doing most to try to enable MPs to block a no-deal Brexit, has told Sky News that he does not share the optimism that Boris Johnson was proclaiming in his speech in Downing Street earlier.
Asked how he would describe Johnson, Grieve replied:
He’s a charlatan. That is the clear evidence of his career and the way he has operated politically. That is one of the things that has caused me so much disquiet over his leadership bid, but a majority of the party have been taken in by his offer … We are going to have to see if in office he behaves differently from [the way] he has behaved at other times in his career.
Those of us who have worked alongside him and had a chance of watching him can see for ourselves his modus operandi and his capacity both for deception and self-deception, and those are the two ingredients of charlatanism.
And Andrea Leadsom, who was leader of the Commons until two months ago, is back in cabinet as business secretary, No 10 has announced.
Nicky Morgan, the former education secretary who currently chairs the Commons Treasury committee, has been appointed culture secretary. Morgan voted remain, and is on the moderate wing of the party, and this is one of the few appointments tonight that counters the overall narrative of this reshuffle – which is that Boris Johnson has dismissed a relatively balanced cabinet dominated by managerial May loyalists and replaced it with a rightwing, hard Brexit reincarnation of the Vote Leave campaign.
Downing Street has just confirmed that Gavin Williamson, a former defence secretary and chief whip, is the new education secretary.
Here is Ian Lavery, the chair of the Labour party, on the reshuffle.
Boris Johnson’s first act as PM has been to appoint a cabinet of hardline conservatives who will only represent the privileged few.
A chancellor who’s consistently called for more tax cuts for big corporations, home and education secretaries who were sacked for breaches of national security, and a foreign secretary who doesn’t know the importance of our ports.
This out-of-touch cabinet pushed for nine years of damaging austerity, while demanding tax cuts for the super-rich and big corporations.
We need a general election and a Labour government that will bring real change for the many, not the privileged few, which Johnson and his cabinet represent.
No 10 has not announced the new education secretary yet, but Lavery has probably read this tweet.
The latest suggestions are that Gavin Williamson will become Education Secretary, Andrea Leadsom Business Secretary and Liz Truss the new International Trade SecretaryWe'll know within the hour.
Theresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland secretary and another alumnus of the Vote Leave campaign, has returned to the cabinet as environment secretary.
The SNP has described the new cabinet as “the worst since Thatcher”. This is from the SNP MP Pete Wishart:
Boris Johnson’s nightmare Tory government is shaping up to be the worst since Thatcher – packed full of extreme Brexiteers and rabid rightwingers who want to drag us back to a bygone era.
Senior Tory cabinet ministers have threatened to cut Scotland’s budget, roll back devolution, and impose a devastating Brexit – that would inflict serious harm on Scottish jobs, living standards, public services and the economy.
This is a Tory cabinet from hell, which Donald Trump or Nigel Farage would be proud of – with members who want to scrap the Barnett formula, privatise the NHS, roll back workers’ rights, undo the welfare state, cut taxes for the rich, and even bring back the death penalty.
Westminster is becoming more extreme and out of touch by the day, while Scotland is being ignored and our interests are being sidelined. It’s no wonder that support for independence is growing and a majority want a fresh referendum.
This is from the Labour Campaign for Human Rights.
Our new Cabinet is the most anti-Human Rights in decades:- Our Foreign Secretary, @DominicRaab, & Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Lancaster, @michaelgove are both outspoken critics of the Human Rights Act.- Our Home Secretary, @patel4witham, is in favour of the death penalty.