Britain’s new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has appointed Dominic Raab as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Suella Braverman as Home Secretary and Steve Barclay as Health Minister in his cabinet.
In the post shared on the official Twitter account of Prime Minister’s Office Number 10, Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt, who also served in the previous government, Foreign Minister James Cleverly, Defense Minister Ben Wallace, Speaker of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt, Lord True CBE, Scottish Minister Alister Jack, Northern Ireland Minister Chris Heaton-Harris, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Minister Michelle Donelan will remain in her post.
It has been reported that Kemi Badenoch, who was the Minister of International Trade in the previous government, will continue in this position and has also been appointed as the Minister of Women and Equality.
Other names in the cabinet and their duties are as follows:
Oliver Dowden Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister for Equality; Simon Hart, Under Secretary of the Treasury; Mark Harper, Minister of Transport; Therese Coffey Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Gillian Keegan, Minister of Education; Mel Stride Minister for Work and Pensions; David TC Davies Minister for Wales; Michael Gove Housing Minister; Grant Shapps Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Victoria Prentis is the Attorney General for England.
RISHI SUNAK IS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND
Rishi Sunak became the party’s new leader and also the country’s new prime minister yesterday, after former British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned from her leadership of the ruling Conservative Party on 20 October.
The new resident of Prime Minister’s Residence Number 10 Sunak, of Indian origin, made history as the country’s first prime minister from an ethnic minority.
Sunak, who was the leader of the Conservative Party before Truss, also nominated him in the leadership race that started after the resignation of Boris Johnson on July 7, but was defeated by Truss as a result of the voting. (AA)