Downing Street has confirmed that Grant Shapps has been appointed Home Secretary.
He replaces S uella Braverman who resigned as Home Secretary after admitting she had made a "technical infringement" of the rules by sending an official document from a personal email. In a letter to Prime Minister Liz Truss, she said she was "now taking responsibility" for her mistake.
She wrote: "I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign. The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes.
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"Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. It is obvious to everyone that we are going through a tumultuous time."
Ms Braverman, a former contender for the Tory leadership, also said she has "concerns about the direction of this Government", warning that ministers have "broken key pledges" to voters.
She also raised "serious concerns" about the Government's manifesto commitments including stopping unauthorised migration and reducing migration numbers. In a brief response, Ms Truss said: "It is important that the ministerial code is upheld and that Cabinet confidentiality is respected."
Her exit comes just five days after Ms Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, meaning she has lost two people from the four great offices of state within her first six weeks in office.
Grant Shapps, a backer of Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership race and a critic of Ms Truss' subsequently abandoned plan to abolish the top rate of income tax, replaced Ms Braverman as Home Secretary.
The former transport secretary had spent the Conservative Party conference earlier this month warning that Tory MPs would not "sit on their hands" in ousting Ms Truss without improvement.
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