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| Rishi Sunak’s cabinet: Who is in the prime minister’s top team? | Rishi Sunak’s cabinet: Who is in the prime minister’s top team? |
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| Rishi Sunak has appointed his new cabinet, hours after officially taking over as prime minister. | Rishi Sunak has appointed his new cabinet, hours after officially taking over as prime minister. |
| He has kept a number of ministers in the same posts they were in before - including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. | He has kept a number of ministers in the same posts they were in before - including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. |
| Here's our guide to the new faces and role changes in Mr Sunak's top team. | |
| Click here if you cannot see the Cabinet Guide | Click here if you cannot see the Cabinet Guide |
| How does Sunak's cabinet compare to the previous one? | |
| The new prime minister immediately put his stamp on his top team by removing 10 full cabinet members who had served under Liz Truss, including former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and former Justice Secretary Brandon Lewis. | |
| After all the comings and goings, there are now two fewer women attending cabinet than there were under Ms Truss, with the total dropping from nine to seven. Overall that's a total of 23%, which is the lowest figure since the coalition government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg in 2010. | |
| As for the education of those assembled by Mr Sunak, 61% of them went to private schools, down slightly when compared with his predecessor's cabinet and Boris Johnson's in 2019. The figure is much higher than the 30% figure for Theresa May's cabinet in 2016. | |
| At 45%, Mr Sunak's new cabinet has a higher proportion of members who were educated at either Oxford University or Cambridge University than Ms Truss's but a slightly lower proportion than Mr Johnson's. |