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Michael Howie

Liz Truss holds out olive branch to Rishi Sunak backers as she recasts junior team

Tory MPs listening to Liz Truss at PMQs on Wednesday

(Picture: UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Imag)

Liz Truss appears to have held out an olive branch to supporters of her defeated rival Rishi Sunak as she reshuffles her junior team.

Robert Jenrick, a high-profile backer of the former chancellor for the Tory leadership, has been made a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), while fellow Sunak supporter Mark Spencer has been handed a role in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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