🔴 Liz Truss is set to hold the first meeting of her Cabinet ahead of a debut showdown against Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions at lunchtime.
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🔵 Truss's Cabinet is the most diverse ever assembled.
For the first time in history, none of the Great Offices of State - Prime Minister, Chancellor, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary - is held by a white man.
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🏥 Therese Coffey has said she will do her best to be a "role model" as Health Secretary.
"My focus is on patients and that is what I will be making sure the department focuses on too."
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🔵 Cabinet ministers are now arriving at No 10 ahead of the first meeting of Liz Truss's new top team this morning
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📸 The first meeting of Liz Truss's new Cabinet is now well underway inside No 10
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🔴 Liz Truss's Cabinet has now concluded and senior ministers have started to leave No 10.
Ranil Jayawardena described the first Cabinet meeting as “very positive”
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🇺🇸 Joe Biden stressed the importance of upholding the Northern Ireland Protocol in his first phone call with Liz Truss last night.
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📉 Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, has said a recession is the "most likely outcome" for the UK economy.
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💷 Kwasi Kwarteng is spending his first morning as Chancellor with the most senior figures in the City of London in an attempt to reassure the markets over his new economic approach
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🔴 Sir Keir Starmer is expected to change his approach at PMQs now that he is facing Liz Truss instead of Boris Johnson.
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🚨Liz Truss has just left No 10 Downing Street to make her way to the House of Commons for her first Prime Minister's Questions which will get underway at 12pm.
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🔴 LIVE: Sir Keir Starmer and Liz Truss go head to head for the first time at this week’s #pmqs
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🗣 Liz Truss has vowed to "get Britain moving" as she defended her plans for the UK economy during clashes with Sir Keir Starmer at her first Prime Minister's Questions.
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🔴Taiwo Owatemi quits as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.
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🔴Downing Street is facing a transparency row after it emerged the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman was not allowed to attend this morning's meeting of the Cabinet.
The spokesman was briefed on what was discussed which was then shared with journalists
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🗣 Nicola Sturgeon has said she is "ready to work constructively with Liz Truss" despite any political differences they may have
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🔴 A moratorium was placed on fracking in England in 2019 but Downing Street today hinted that the ban could be lifted, potentially as part of Liz Truss's plan to deal with the energy crisis
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🚨 No 10 announces more ministerial appointments:
Robert Jenrick - Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care
Rachel Maclean - Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice
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🔴 Further appointments:
Victoria Prentis - Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions
Julia Lopez - Minister of State in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Paul Scully - re-appointed as Minister for London
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🔴 The appointment of mid-level and junior ministers continues. No 10 has just announced the following:
Jesse Norman & Leo Docherty - Ministers of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tom Pursglove & Jeremy Quin - Ministers of State in the Home Office
🔴 Jackie Doyle-Price - Minister of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mark Spencer - Minister of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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🔴 As well as the raft junior minister appointments that are being announced this afternoon, a shake-up of other top jobs is also underway...
Sir Tim Barrow has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser
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🔴No 10 has also made the following appointments:
Steve Baker - Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office
James Duddridge - Minister of State in the Department for International Trade
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Here is a full list of recent appointments 👇
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