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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Lisa O'Carroll

Liz Truss will not offer Rishi Sunak a job in her new cabinet

Liz Truss seated near Rishi Sunak
Liz Truss looks set to break from tradition by not offering Sunak a job. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

Rishi Sunak will not be offered a role in Liz Truss’s cabinet, it has emerged, as her team put the final touches to job offers to be made on Tuesday afternoon.

Kwasi Kwarteng, Truss’s closest cabinet ally, will become her chancellor, and she is also expected to confirm the appointments of Suella Braverman as home secretary and James Cleverly as foreign secretary. Those appointments will mean that, for the first time, there will be no white men in the four great offices of state.

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