Summary of appointments
Here’s the full list of cabinet appointments as things stand at the end of Liz Truss’s first day as prime minister.
The cabinet
Prime minister Liz Truss
Deputy prime minister and health secretary Thérèse Coffey
Chancellor of the exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng
Foreign secretary James Cleverly
Home secretary Suella Braverman QC
Defence secretary Ben Wallace
Justice secretary and lord chancellor Brandon Lewis
Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, minister for intergovernmental relations and minister for equalities Nadhim Zahawi
Leader of the House of Commons and lord president of the council Penny Mordaunt
Lord privy seal and leader of the House of Lords Lord True
Minister without portfolio and Conservative party chairman Jake Berry
Cop26 President Alok Sharma
Business, energy and industrial strategy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg
Levelling up, housing and communities Secretary Simon Clarke
International trade secretary and president of the board of trade Kemi Badenoch
Work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith
Education secretary Kit Malthouse
Environment secretary Ranil Jayawardena
Transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Culture secretary Michelle Donelan
Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris
Scotland secretary Alister Jack
Wales secretary Sir Robert Buckland QC
Attending cabinet
Parliamentary secretary to the Treasury (chief whip) Wendy Morton
Chief secretary to the Treasury Chris Philp
Attorney general Michael Ellis QC
Paymaster general and minister for the Cabinet Office Edward Argar
Minister for development at the Foreign Office Vicky Ford
Minister for security at the home department Tom Tugendhat
Minister for the armed forces and veterans at the Ministry of Defence James Heappey
Minister for climate at the business department Graham Stuart
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Rees-Mogg will not take climate brief
Jacob Rees-Mogg will not take on the brief of minister for the climate, prompting speculation No 10 may have succumbed to pressure from green Tory MPs.
Graham Stuart has instead been appointed minister for the climate in the business department and will attend cabinet.
No 10 had originally planned to give Rees-Mogg the brief as part of his new role as business secretary, but is said to have faced opposition from MPs. Rees Mogg has also previously expressed scepticism about the scientific consensus on climate change and the UK’s net zero targets.
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