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.
Here's our guide to the new faces and role changes in Mr Sunak's top team.
Rishi Sunak is the UK’s first British Asian prime minister.
He won the leadership contest which followed the resignation of Liz Truss, receiving nominations from more than half of his party’s MPs.
He was chancellor during the coronavirus pandemic, and introduced the furlough scheme, spending huge amounts to keep the economy afloat.
His reputation was dented by a controversy over his wife’s tax affairs and a fine for breaching lockdown rules.
In July 2022, he was one of the first to quit Boris Johnson’s cabinet, paving the way for the stream of resignations.
He became an MP in 2015 – for the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond.
Dominic Raab has been appointed justice secretary and deputy prime minister by Rishi Sunak.
He previously served as justice secretary under Boris Johnson – but lost his role when Liz Truss became prime minister.
Prior to that, he served as foreign secretary and faced criticism and calls for his resignation over his handling of the Afghanistan crisis.
During the pandemic he was asked to deputise for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was in intensive care with Covid and went on to be appointed his deputy PM.
A staunch Brexiteer, Mr Raab also served as a justice minister in 2015, but was sacked by Theresa May when she became prime minister the following year. He made a return as Brexit secretary in July 2018 after the resignation of David Davis, but quit only months later in opposition to Mrs May’s Brexit deal.
The karate black-belt started his career as an international lawyer, before joining the Foreign Office as a diplomat.
Jeremy Hunt will remain in his post as chancellor, after having been in the role for just over a week.
He was appointed chancellor by former prime minister Liz Truss earlier in October after turmoil in the financial markets following the mini-budget, which led to the sacking of her first choice Kwasi Kwarteng.
His initial appointment – and subsequent move to scrap almost all the tax cuts his predecessor had promised – calmed financial markets. The need to encourage economic stability was a key reason to keep him in post.
He was first elected to parliament in 2005 and joined the cabinet under PM David Cameron as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.
He went on to become health secretary, where he faced criticism from junior doctors over plans to introduce new contracts, but also secured a funding increase for the NHS. Mr Hunt became foreign secretary in 2018.
The MP for South West Surrey has twice stood unsuccessfully for the party leadership, losing to Boris Johnson in 2019.
Suella Braverman has returned as home secretary – less than a week after she resigned from the role over a data breach, leaving with a brutal attack on Liz Truss’s government’s direction on migration.
In the job, she’ll be tasked with things like the plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Ms Braverman, who studied law at Cambridge, is a barrister who was previously the attorney general and ran to be Tory leader herself in the contest this summer.
Her parents emigrated to the UK in the 1960s from Kenya and Mauritius, and both spent time in local politics – with her mother being a councillor for 16 years.
Ms Braverman was the first cabinet minister to take maternity leave – after the law was changed so that cabinet ministers could receive paid maternity leave, having previously been expected to resign their posts.
James Cleverly has been reappointed foreign secretary by Rishi Sunak.
He was originally appointed foreign secretary under Liz Truss, taking over her former department.
Mr Cleverly was a foreign minister previously, for the Middle East and North Africa, and later for Europe and North America.
He served in the Territorial Army and went to Sandhurst and, outside of work, enjoys painting model soldiers and hanging out with his border terriers.
Elected as MP for Braintree in Essex in 2015, the Brexit supporter held a number a junior ministerial roles under Theresa May before moving to the Foreign Office.
Ben Wallace has been reappointed as defence secretary, a post he has held since July 2019, where he’s been leading the response to the war in Ukraine.
He’s popular with Tory members – and was once considered a favourite to replace Boris Johnson – but chose not to stand in either recent leadership contest.
Mr Wallace is pretty widely respected across the parliamentary party with many colleagues seeing him as a safe pair of hands.
During his eight-year spell in the Army, he served in Germany, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland – where he helped thwart an IRA bomb attack.
Nadhim Zahawi has been appointed minister without portfolio and Conservative Party chairman by Rishi Sunak.
As minister without portfolio, Mr Zahawi is not in charge of any particular department, but he is a full cabinet member and will be expected to take part in the government’s policy and decision-making processes.
Mr Zahawi served briefly as chancellor under Boris Johnson after Rishi Sunak resigned – but he joined calls for Mr Johnson to resign soon after being appointed.
He was later given the role of chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by Liz Truss.
A fast riser in the party, Mr Zahawi gained support and public recognition in his role as vaccines minister during the pandemic.
He was also education secretary during the latter half of the Covid pandemic and had the difficult task of ensuring a generation of children caught up after having missed months of school.
He’s a former child refugee who fled Iraq with his parents in the 1970s and co-founded the market research firm YouGov. He is now believed to be one of the richest politicians in the Commons.
Oliver Dowden has been appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by Rishi Sunak.
The role means he’ll be responsible for running the Cabinet Office, the department that supports the prime minister and basically helps departments work together better on issues that involve more than one.
Mr Dowden’s most recent role was as Conservative Party chairman. However he quit in June, after the Tories suffered two significant by-election defeats.
As Culture Secretary under Boris Johnson, Mr Dowden waded into the “culture wars”, arguing that museums should “retain and explain” controversial statues rather than removing them.
Before being elected as MP for Hertsmere in 2015, he worked in Downing Street advising David Cameron and was made his deputy chief of staff. He was later awarded a CBE for his services.
Therese Coffey has been appointed as secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs by Rishi Sunak.
A long-time friend of Liz Truss, she was closely involved in her leadership campaign and served as her health secretary and deputy prime minister.
She was elected as MP for Suffolk Coastal in 2010 and has served in a number of roles including work and pensions secretary, environment minister, Commons deputy leader and assistant whip.
A devout Roman Catholic, she faced scrutiny for her views on abortion during her short stint as health secretary, although she said abortion would remain freely available in England while she was in post.
The former Mars and BBC employee is a member of the Campaign for Real Ale, with a love of karaoke, and lists her interests as watching football, gardening and music.
Grant Shapps has been appointed business secretary by Rishi Sunak.
The former transport secretary was fired by Liz Truss because he supported her rival Rishi Sunak in the summer leadership contest.
However, he made a miraculous comeback when he was brought back as home secretary as her government began to fall apart – with his appointment seen as an olive branch to the PM’s opponents and an attempt to encourage unity.
Mr Shapps is known for his skills in monitoring political rebellions, using spreadsheets to record his colleagues’ views – and has played a role in the downfall in a number of PMs.
He’s also faced his own scandals and resigned as international development minister following allegations he ignored warnings about bullying when he was party co-chairman.
He was born in Watford and educated at a local grammar school, before going on to Manchester Polytechnic to study business and finance. He later set up his own successful printing business, before being elected MP for Welwyn Hatfield in Hertfordshire in 2005.
Penny Mordaunt has been reappointed as leader of the House of Commons.
In the role, she is responsible for delivering the government’s legislative programme, by working closely with the chief whip to manage Commons business, like motions and debates.
Ms Mordaunt’s profile rose significantly after she stood for the party leadership in both the recent contests – and many had called for her to be given a more prominent role under Rishi Sunak.
Over the summer she made it to the final three and in the latest race she withdrew minutes before the result was announced after it became clear she did not have enough support from her fellow Tory MPs.
The MP for Portsmouth North since 2010, she was previously a trade minister for Boris Johnson.
A naval reservist, she made history when she became the UK’s first female defence secretary in 2019 and had also been in cabinet in 2017 as international development secretary.
The former magician’s assistant is perhaps best known outside Westminster for appearing on ITV’s celebrity diving show Splash!
Mel Stride has been appointed work and pensions secretary.
He is a close ally of Rishi Sunak and ran both his leadership campaigns.
As chairman of the influential Commons Treasury Committee since 2019, he had been a strong critic of Liz Truss’s economic approach, as well as playing an important role in scrutinising the government’s financial support during the Covid pandemic.
Previously he held a handful of junior ministerial roles, including in the Treasury and business department. He also served as leader of the House of Commons under Theresa May.
Before becoming MP for Central Devon in 2010, he ran a business with his wife specialising in trade conferences and exhibitions.
Gillian Keegan has been appointed education secretary.
MP for Chichester since 2017, she left school at 16 to work as an apprentice at a car factory. She went on to have a career of almost 30 years in manufacturing, banking and IT.
As a junior minister in the Department for Education she was the first person who had completed an apprenticeship to be the minister responsible for them.
She has also been a health minister, with responsibility for care and mental health, between September 2021 and September 2022 during the latter half of the Covid pandemic, and most recently a Foreign Office minister.
Steve Barclay has been appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a role he briefly held under Boris Johnson after Sajid Javid resigned in July.
He lost his cabinet position in Liz Truss’s reshuffle in September.
Mr Barclay had previously been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and minister for the Cabinet Office.
Mr Johnson also appointed him as chief of staff at No 10 during a shake-up of his top team following the Partygate scandal.
He had previously served as chief secretary to the Treasury and Brexit secretary.
The former insurance company solicitor was elected MP for North East Cambridgeshire in 2010.
Mark Harper has been appointed transport secretary.
A former chief whip, responsible for party discipline, he first joined government as a minister for constitutional reform under David Cameron.
In 2012 he was appointed immigration minister but resigned from the post two years later after it was revealed his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK.
He was later restored to office as a minister for disabled people and in 2015 he was promoted to chief whip.
During the pandemic his was a vocal opponent of lockdown restrictions as chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs.
Before entering politics, he qualified as an accountant and worked for a big corporation before setting up his own chartered accountancy.
Michael Gove has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
The Conservatives said ‘levelling up’ was one of their key priorities during the 2019 election campaign. The aim of the department is to “support communities across the UK to thrive, making them great places to live and work”.
Mr Gove previously ran the department under Boris Johnson, but was sacked in July after urging the prime minister to resign.
He had a fraught relationship with Mr Johnson. The pair worked closely together while campaigning for Brexit but in 2016 Mr Gove famously derailed the leadership hopes of his friend by running against him.
Mr Gove was also a key ally of former Prime Minister David Cameron and has served as MP for Surrey Heath since 2005.
He made his name as a radical education secretary, bringing in major changes to exams and the curriculum and battling teaching unions during his four years in the role.
He also previously served as justice secretary.
Kemi Badenoch has been reappointed international trade secretary by Rishi Sunak and will also be minister for women and equalities.
She took on the international trade brief under Liz Truss after surprising many by reaching the last four in the summer’s leadership contest.
She was a former minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Ms Badenoch, who has been outspoken on issues such as gender-neutral toilets which she opposes, stood on an “anti-woke” platform and argued for the state to be slimmed down.
The former software engineer worked in banking and later as a director of the Spectator magazine before being elected to the London Assembly.
She became MP for Saffron Walden in Essex in 2017, and lists her interests as including engineering and technology, social mobility and integration.
Michelle Donelan has been reappointed culture secretary having served in the same role under Liz Truss.
She holds the record for the shortest-serving cabinet minister in British history, after resigning as education secretary just two days into the role as part of the mass ministerial walkout which led to then Prime Minister Boris Johnson stepping down.
Previously a government whip, Ms Donelan worked in the media and entertainment industry before entering parliament, including a period as communications manager at professional wrestling firm WWE.
The MP for Chippenham, first elected in 2015, went to a state school and was the first in her family to attend university.
Simon Hart has been appointed chief whip.
The job of chief whip is to ensure party discipline in the House of Commons. It means he will be responsible for making sure MPs vote in line with party policy.
Mr Hart had previously served as Welsh secretary under Boris Johnson between 2019 and 2022 and was also a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.
He was among those to resign from the cabinet in July as Mr Johnson’s premiership collapsed.
Elected as MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire in 2010, he has a background in rural affairs having been chief executive of the Countryside Alliance.
Prior to becoming an MP, he also worked as a chartered surveyor and served with the Territorial Army for five years.
Chris Heaton-Harris has been reappointed Northern Ireland secretary.
He took on the role under Liz Truss when it was regarded by some as a bit of a poisoned chalice – the nation is currently without a functioning devolved government.
One of his key priorities has been resolving tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol – which the DUP has argued is necessary if it is to re-enter into power sharing in Northern Ireland.
The qualified football referee describes himself as a fierce Eurosceptic but he will need to engage with the EU in negotiations about the protocol.
Before becoming a politician, Mr Heaton-Harris ran his family’s wholesale fruit and vegetable business in New Covent Garden Market.
Alister Jack has been reappointed secretary of state for Scotland, a role he has held since Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019.
He is a former government whip.
Before entering parliament as MP for Dumfries and Galloway in 2017, Mr Jack was a businessman who founded tent-hire and self-storage companies.
Mr Jack is also a dairy farmer and grows Christmas trees.
David TC Davies has been appointed secretary of state for Wales.
He previously held a junior ministerial role in the department and was chairman of the Commons Welsh Affairs Committee between 2010 and 2019.
Elected as MP for Monmouth in 2005, he speaks fluent Welsh and was a vocal supporter of Brexit.
He previously worked for British Steel and was in the Territorial Army, serving for 18 months as a Gunner with 104 Air Defence Regiment at Raglan Barracks Newport.
A keen sportsman, he has fought in several charity boxing matches as “The Tory Tornado” and is a former president of the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association.
Lord True has been reappointed leader of the House of Lords.
The role, which he was originally given by Liz Truss, sees him responsible for delivery of the government’s legislative programme in the Upper House.
A former Cabinet Office minister, he replaced Baroness Evans who had held the position since 2016.
Before being made a life peer in 2010, Lord True had been leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and before that had worked in John Major’s policy unit when he was prime minister.
A fluent Italian speaker, who has previously lived and studied in the country, he lists his interests as including history, gardening and sport.
Victoria Prentis has been appointed Attorney General – the chief legal adviser to the government – and will attend cabinet.
She has previously served as a minister in the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
She has been MP for Banbury since 2015.
Before becoming an MP she was a lawyer in the Civil Service and headed up the government’s Justice and Security team, which involved representing the government in court.
John Glen has been appointed chief secretary to the Treasury.
His role is responsible for public expenditure, including spending reviews and strategic planning.
Mr Glen previously served as a minister and economic secretary in the Treasury, as well as city minister.
He was first elected to Parliament as the Conservative MP for Salisbury in 2010.
The infamous novichok poisonings of Sergei and Julia Skripal, as well as Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, took place in his constituency In 2018.
Jeremy Quin will attend cabinet after being named paymaster general and Cabinet Office minister.
He has previously held ministerial roles at the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence and served as a whip before that.
He has been the MP for Horsham since 2015.
Prior to entering politics, he worked in corporate finance for 25 years.
Johnny Mercer has been named minister for veterans’ affairs in the Cabinet Office and will also attend cabinet.
He previously held the same position under Boris Johnson, but was replaced by Liz Truss when she took over as prime minister.
He also served as a defence minister and Cabinet Office minister – without attending cabinet – between 2019 and 2021, having been elected MP for Plymouth Moor View in 2015.
Before becoming an MP he served in the Army for 12 years and completed three tours in Afghanistan.
He is on both the Commons defence and health select committees and chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Health.
Tom Tugendhat has been reappointed to the cabinet as security minister in the Home Office.
He was given the role by Liz Truss after reaching the final five in the Conservative leadership race after Boris Johnson resigned earlier this year.
The former Territorial Army officer, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee since 2017.
He’s always been considered part of the “centrist” One Nation group of Tory MPs.
He was highly critical of the withdrawal from Afghanistan by Western forces in 2021 and of Mr Johnson during his premiership.
Gavin Williamson has been appointed as a minister without portfolio in the Cabinet Office and will attend cabinet.
His last cabinet role was education secretary, a post he held from July 2019 to September 2021, meaning he oversaw the department through the majority of the Covid pandemic.
His time in the job saw him face severe criticism over his handling of school closures, free school meal provision and GCSE and A-level exams – and he was subsequently sacked.
He also served as defence secretary under Theresa May but was fired in 2019, following allegations – which he denied – that he had leaked details from a National Security Council meeting on whether the Chinese firm Huawei should be involved in setting up the UK’s 5G network.
First elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010, he has also served as chief whip, responsible for party discipline.
While in that role he notably kept a pet tarantula called Cronus on his desk.
Robert Jenrick has been appointed minister for immigration in the Home Office and will attend cabinet.
He first joined government as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury under Theresa May and also served as Housing Secretary under Boris Johnson.
He was one of the few Sunak allies to make it into Liz Truss’s team, albeit as a junior health minister rather than the cabinet role he had held previously.
He drew criticism in 2017 when, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on international trade, he attended US President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
A qualified solicitor, before he was elected as MP for Newark in 2014, Mr Jenrick pursued a career in business, including as international managing director at art firm Christie’s.
Andrew Mitchell has been appointed development minister at the Foreign Office and will attend cabinet.
He previously served as international development secretary from 2010 to 2012 under David Cameron and became Tory chief whip in 2012.
Mr Mitchell hit the headlines in 2012 after an altercation with police when he attempted to leave Downing Street on his bicycle. He admitted swearing at officers but denied calling them “plebs”.
He was a government whip between 1993 and 1995, and social security minister from 1995 to 1997 under John Major.
He lost his seat in 1997 but returned to Parliament four years later as MP for Sutton Coldfield.
Before his Cambridge university student days, Mr Mitchell served in the Royal Tank Regiment and was a UN peacekeeper in Cyprus in the 1970s.
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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.
Others, including former Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Chris Philp, who was paymaster general, have been demoted to junior ministerial roles and will no longer attend cabinet.
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.
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