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New Prime Minister of United Kingdom Theresa May today formed a cabinet with new look. it is seen as a major departure from predecessor David Cameron’s top team.
George Osborne, Michael Gove, John Whittingdale, Nicky Morgan and Oliver Letwin have all been dropped.
Liz Truss is justice secretary, Justine Greening takes education and Tory leadership contender Andrea Leadsom has been promoted to environment secretary.
Boris Johnson became foreign secretary. Philip Hammond was made chancellor.
And in another new post announced on Wednesday, Liam Fox has been appointed as the new international trade secretary.
Just four cabinet positions have stayed in the same hands: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns and Scottish Secretary David Mundell.
Meanwhile Eurosceptic David Davis, will take charge of negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union, in a newly created post of Brexit secretary.
Speaking outside Downing Street for the first time as prime minister May on Wednesday Mrs May vowed to lead a government that works for all, not just the “privileged few”, promising to give people who were “just managing” and “working around the clock” more control over their lives.
For an “ordinary working class family”, she added, “life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise”.
She highlighted the “precious bond” between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and between “every one of us”, and paid tribute to her predecessor David Cameron as “a great modern prime minister”.