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Who’s in and who’s out of Truss’s cabinet?

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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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