Liz Truss cabinet reshuffle: Who’s in and who’s out?
The new deputy prime minister Therese Coffey has insisted that Liz Truss’s government will be a “broad church”, after her brutal Cabinet reshuffle drew accusations of cronyism.
Ms Truss culled supporters of her leadership rival Rishi Sunak and axed more than half of those in her predecessor’s Cabinet in favour of close political allies after entering office on Tuesday,
But one incoming minister still told The Times: “I doubt she’ll last two years”, while the new PM was branded an “imbecile” by the wife of sacked veterans’ affairs minister Johnny Mercer.
Ms Truss made Suella Braverman home secretary, James Cleverly foreign secretary and Ms Coffey deputy PM and health secretary, also controversially handing climate change sceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg responsibility for Britain’s energy policy.
One former special adviser to a minister in Mr Johnson’s cabinet told The Independent he feared the new prime minister was creating a “cabinet of cronies”.
Ms Truss is set to face Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in her first Prime Minister’s Questions later today on her first full day in power.
