{"id":121507,"date":"2021-09-19T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=121507"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:22:57","slug":"boris-johnson-to-hold-first-meeting-of-new-cabinet-after-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/boris-johnson-to-hold-first-meeting-of-new-cabinet-after-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson to hold first meeting of new cabinet after reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"
Boris Johnson will gather his cabinet later for the first meeting of his top team since the prime minister’s reshuffle.<\/p>\n
It comes after the PM<\/strong> completed a shake-up of his cabinet that saw a number of high-profile casualties.<\/p>\n Dominic Raab<\/strong> was replaced as foreign secretary by Liz Truss<\/strong> and moved to the roles of justice secretary and lord chancellor.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This has widely been viewed as a demotion in the wake of criticism for his handling of the Afghanistan crisis.<\/p>\n But Mr Raab was also named deputy prime minister, a move interpreted as an attempt by the PM to placate the former foreign secretary.<\/p>\n Downing Street has insisted that Mr Raab will continue playing an “important senior role”<\/strong> and his move had been “planned”.<\/p>\n Gavin Williamson was sacked as education secretary<\/strong> after a difficult 18 months amid the COVID-19<\/strong> pandemic and its impact on education.<\/p>\n He has been replaced by former vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi.<\/p>\n Other casualties included Robert Buckland, removed as justice secretary, and Robert Jenrick, who is no longer housing secretary.<\/p>\n Michael Gove now occupies the latter role, while Oliver Dowden lost his job as culture secretary and was replaced by Nadine Dorries.<\/p>\n He is now Conservative Party co-chair after the previous incumbent Amanda Milling was ousted just weeks before the party’s annual conference.<\/p>\n Anne-Marie Trevelyan has returned to cabinet as international trade secretary, taking on the post formerly held by Ms Truss.<\/p>\n On Thursday Mr Johnson reshuffled the junior and middle-ranking government ministers, with a raft of appointments made.<\/p>\n Nick Gibb has been removed as schools minister after more than a decade holding the brief as both minister and shadow minister, being replaced by Robin Walker.<\/p>\n Penny Mordaunt, meanwhile, has been appointed minister of state at the Department for International Trade, while John Whittingdale is no longer a media minister.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Greg Hands has moved from international trade minister to become a business minister and Kemi Badenoch is now both a housing minister and Foreign Office minister.<\/p>\n In a tweet after carrying out his cabinet reshuffle, the PM said his top team will “work tirelessly to unite and level up the whole country”.<\/p>\n He added: “We will build back better from the pandemic and deliver on your priorities. Now let’s get on with the job.”<\/p>\n