She is renowned for hosting boozy karaoke nights in her Parliamentary office and for chomping on a cigar, but now Therese Coffey faces one of the biggest challenges in government.
She has long been a divisive figure - in June she said she would "prefer that people didn't have abortions" and voted against same-sex marriage in 2013.
The Liz Truss ally and close friend was branded "utterly heartless" by Piers Morgan when she hit out at school meal campaigner Marcus Rashford on Twitter, before being silenced by the footballer's classy reply.
