Liz Truss will kiss hands with the Queen today and become Britain’s 56th Prime Minister, with a number of Boris Johnson’s ministers not expected to serve in her new government. Already the Home Secretary Priti Patel has signalled she will return to the backbenches, with Nadine Dorries also standing down as Culture Secretary. Below is The Spectator’s list of confirmed names who are either in or out of Truss’s new cabinet.
OUT:
Priti Patel as Home Secretary
Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary
Nigel Adams as Foreign Office minister, attending cabinet
Dominic Raab as Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister
Grant Shapps as Transport Secretary
Steve Barclay as Health Secretary
Johnny Mercer as minister for veterans
Andrew Stephenson as party chairman
George Eustice as Environment Secretary
Greg Clark as Levelling Up Secretary
Baroness Evans as Leader of the House of Lords
In:
Therese Coffey as Health Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister
Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer
James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary
Suella Braverman as Home Secretary
Wendy Morton as Chief Whip
Ben Wallace as Defence Secretary
Chris Heaton-Harris as Northern Ireland Secretary
Brandon Lewis as Justice Secretary
Nadhim Zahawi as Cabinet Office minister
Penny Mordaunt as Leader of the House of Commons
Lord True as Leader of the House of Lords
Jake Berry as party chairman
Alok Sharma as president of COP
Jacob Rees-Mogg as Business Secretary
Simon Clarke as Levelling Up Secretary
Kemi Badenoch as International Trade Secretary
Chloe Smith as Work and Pensions Secretary
Kit Malthouse as Education Secretary
Ranil Jayawardena as Environment Secretary
Anne-Marie Trevelyan as Transport Secretary
Michelle Donelan as Culture Secretary
Alister Jack as Scotland Secretary
Robert Buckland as Wales Secretary
Chris Philp as Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Ed Argar as Minister for the Cabinet Office
Vicky Ford as Foreign Office minister, attending Cabinet
Tom Tugendhat as Security minister, attending cabinet
James Heappey as defence minister, attending cabinet
Graham Stuart as minister for climate, attending cabinet
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