Suella Braverman has been appointed Home Secretary - just SIX DAYS after being sacked from the same role, prompting her to launch a blistering attack on Liz Truss.
Ms Braverman becomes an integral member of new PM Rishi Sunak's cabinet, less than a week after being cast out to the backbenches following a breach of the ministerial code.
It means Grant Shapps has become the shortest-serving Home Secretary in history after being shifted to a new job.
Mr Shapps has been named as the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Ms Braverman is a popular figure on the right of the Tory party, and her supporters will be hoping she lasts longer than the 43 days she clocked up last time.
She was kicked out after Cabinet Secretary Simon Case reportedly found she committed two breaches of the ministerial code - including using a personal email and sending sensitive information to someone outside government.
Her re-appointment immediately sparked an outcry, with a Labour MP branding it "cynical manoeuvring".
Ms Braverman took a departing shot at the ex-Prime Minister last week, revealing she had "concerns about the direction of this government" after days of extraordinary turmoil.
Ms Braverman wrote: "Not only have we broken key pledges that were promised to our voters, but I have serious concerns about this Government's commitment to honouring manifesto commitments."
She continued: "Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see we have made them and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics."
It was reported that Ms Braverman and Ms Truss were involved in a 90 minute shouting match as the previous administration descended into chaos.
In a short letter to Ms Braverman, the former Prime Minister praised her work at the Home Office, but said: "I accept your resignation and respect the decision you have made.
"It is important that the Ministerial Code is upheld, and the Cabinet confidentiality is respected".
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: "Just a few hours into the job and Rishi Sunak is already putting party before country.
"He said he wants his Government to have 'integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level' yet he has just appointed Suella Braverman to be Home Secretary again a week after she resigned for breaches of the Ministerial Code, security lapses, sending sensitive Government information through unauthorised personal channels, and following weeks of non-stop public disagreements with other Cabinet Ministers.
"Our national security and public safety are too important for this kind of chaos. We don’t just need a new cabinet, we need a general election and a fresh start with Labour."
After Downing Street announced Ms Braverman was back as Home Secretary, Labour MP Chris Bryant lashed out, posting on Twitter: "Appointing Suella Braverman as Home secretary just days after she was sacked for a security breach doesn’t smack of integrity, competence, professionalism or sensible politics. It’s just cynical manoeuvring.
"This PM’s no better than the last two."
Ms Braverman is a deeply divisive figure and last week her bizarre rant about a "coalition of chaos" was brutally slapped down by shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
The Tory cabinet member told the Commons in a diatribe about protesters who glue themselves to the road: "It's the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption that we are seeing on our roads today."
At the Conservative Party conference earlier this month, Ms Braverman told a fringe event she would "love to be here claiming victory. I would love to be having a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda. That's my dream. That's my obsession".
She said it will be "amazing" if the first UK flight carrying migrants to the African country takes off by Christmas.
Mr Sunak is shaking up his top team after taking over from Ms Truss earlier today.
Dominic Raab was brought back into the government fold - just six weeks after being booted out by Liz Truss.
The former Foreign Secretary was cast out to the backbenches when Ms Truss became PM last month - but today he was given his Deputy PM job back, as well as being appointed Justice Secretary.
It comes as Number 10 also confirmed Jeremy Hunt will stay on as Chancellor, tasked with tackling the economic chaos left behind by Ms Truss.
Mr Hunt, who was given to the role less than a fortnight ago following Kwasi Kwarteng's sacking, was brought in by Ms Truss in a desperate attempt to sort out the mess she'd made.
Mr Sunak, a former Chancellor himself, today ruled that he should stay in post, as the axe fell on several other ministers including Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Also staying put is Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Downing Street confirmed, alongside Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
Penny Mordaunt - who dropped out of the latest Tory leadership race just moments before the result was announced on Monday - remains Leader of the House of Commons.
Gillian Keegan was named Education Secretary by the new PM, while Mel Stride became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Dr Thérèse Coffey was demoted to Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs having been Health Secretary, a role that was given to Steve Barclay.
Simon Hart will take on the role of chief whip, while Oliver Dowden is the new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Mr Hunt is expected to deliver a crunch fiscal statement on October 31, which will see him undo measures announced in his predecessor's disastrous mini-Budget on September 23.
