Theresa May’s new cabinet in full
And that’s it. The full cabinet is in. What a brutal business. Underneath we’ll add the non-cabinet appointments as we get them.
IN…
Prime Minister: Theresa May. Obvs…
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Philip Hammond
Foreign Secretary: Boris Johnson
Home Secretary: Amber Rudd
Brexit Secretary: David Davis
International Trade: Liam Fox
Defence Secretary: Michael Fallon (unchanged)
Education Secretary: Justine Greening
Justice Secretary: Liz Truss
Chief Whip: Gavin Williamson
Party Chairman: Patrick McLoughlin
Health Secretary: Jeremy Hunt (unchanged)
Leader of the House of Lords: Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
Transport Secretary: Chris Grayling
Work and Pensions Secretary: Damien Green
DEFRA: Andrea Leadsom
Communities and Local Government Secretary: Sajid Javid
Northern Ireland Secretary: James Brokenshire
Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy: Greg Clark
International Development Secretary: Priti Patel
Secretary of State for Wales: Alun Cairns (unchanged)
Culture, Media and Sports Secretary: Karen Bradley
Secretary of State for Scotland: David Mundell
Chief Secretary to the Treasury: David Gauke
Leader of the House of Commons: David Lidington
Attorney General: Jeremy Wright (unchanged)
Minister for the Cabinet Office: Ben Gummer
OUT..
The fired heading for the backbenches are…
George Osborne out of the Treasury
Michael Gove gone from Justice
John Whittingdale whacked as Culture Secretary
Nicky Morgan expelled as Education Secretary
Oliver Letwin dropped as country’s chief fixer
Theresa Villiers leaves Northern Ireland
Mark Harper ditched as Chief Whip
Tina Stowell out as Leader of the House of Lords
Stephen Crabb quits to spend more time with the family
Matthew Hancock the Osborne apprentice follows his master to the backbenches from the Cabinet Office
SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT
Not even the new Chancellor’s supporters would say he is famous for his jokes. And it is quite incredible that an operator who made such a play of attaching himself to Cameron and Osborne, scorning the concept of Brexit, now emerges as the second most powerful person in the new government. What else to note? His wife is very nice and interesting. There will surely be no Blair/Brown-style tension between the new Chancellor and PM. She is the boss. Hammond is there as a technocrat and he is good on detail. He’lll be big on tax reform. And his hiring makes it clear that the person really driving Brexit negotiations will be Theresa May. There will be no rival centre of power.
More broadly this is what might politely be termed an extremely brutal reshuffle. May is acting on the basis of the old adage that a PM is at the peak of his or her powers in the first 24 hours.