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Liz Truss
LIZ TRUSS was confirmed as the new Foreign Secretary today as Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his top team ahead of a difficult winter for his government.
The former international trade secretary replaced Dominic Raab, who was demoted but became Justice Secretary and deputy PM in place of the axed Robert Buckland.
Mr Johnson also made Nadhim Zahawi the new Education Secretary after dismissing Gavin Williamson, while Michael Gove replaced Robert Jenrick as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
