Liz Truss is appointing mid-level roles within her government after holding her first Cabinet meeting with senior ministers and facing Sir Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions.
Sir Tim Barrow has been appointed as the new Prime Minister’s national security adviser, and Robert Jenrick, a supporter of Rishi Sunak, has been made a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care.
A string of other ministers were being announced on Wednesday afternoon.
It comes after Ms Truss confirmed she will set out her package to help people struggling with soaring energy bills on Thursday. She has ruled out imposing a windfall tax to pay for any energy bill freeze.
During PMQs she said: “I am against a windfall tax. I believe it is the wrong thing to be putting companies off investing in the United Kingdom just when we need to be growing the economy.”
Ms Truss had made a brutal cull of Rishi Sunak supporters appointing Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor and Therese Coffey as Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary, as she made James Cleverly the Foreign Secretary.
Former attorney general Suella Braverman was appointed Home Secretary, replacing Priti Patel after she pre-emptively resigned. The appointments mean that for the first time in history none of the great offices of state are held by white men.
Mr Kwarteng has summoned the bosses of major banks to discuss the new economic strategy, with fresh support possibly being announced as soon as Thursday.
