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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Abbi Garton-Crosbie

Liz Truss quietly appoints Tory donor and financier as trade minister

LIZ Truss has appointed a Tory donor who founded a capital investment firm with Jacob Rees-Mogg as a trade minister.

The announcement that Dominic Johnson was made a Minister of State in the department of trade and the cabinet office was put up quietly on a government website on Sunday morning.

Johnson was a co-founder of Somerset Capital with Rees-Mogg, now the Business Secretary, in 2007. 

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