The Prime
Minister made the changes as No. 10 remains in chaos – with the Queen’s Speech
delayed and a deal with the hard-right DUP still not hammered out.
Apprenticeships
minister Robert Halfon, Armed Forces minister Mike Penning and Justice minister
Oliver Heald were all out, Downing Street announced.
Mr. Halfon,
a former top aide to ex-Chancellor George Osborne who yesterday branded Mrs.
May a “dead woman walking”, said he was not given a reason for his sacking.
He said he
had “loved” the job, adding: “The Prime Minister has to make these decisions, I
wasn’t really given a reason”.
Also gone
was Brexit minister David Jones, who said it was “impossible to say” if his
boss would still be Prime Minister in six months after her election drubbing.
Meanwhile,
Mrs. May brought back two MPs she dumped from her team last summer.
Brexit
-backer Dominic Raab will return as a Justice minister while Remainer Claire Perry
will work on business.
Deputy whips
Anne Milton and Mel Stride were also promoted to ministerial jobs in education
and the Treasury.
And three
ministers were moved to new departments – Nick Hurd from business to the Home
Office, Robert Goodwill from the Home Office to the Department for Education
and Baroness Anelay from the Foreign Office to the Brexit Department.
Mrs. May had
already completed her Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday but was continuing to jostle
MPs into junior roles tonight.
She promoted
Brexit backstabber Michael Gove to Environment Secretary in the shake-up – but
paralysed by her lack of a majority, was unable to make bigger changes.
Six reasons
Michael Gove is an absolutely terrible choice for Environment Secretary in
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Unsackable
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt kept his job as lame duck Mrs May unveiled her
reshuffle, dubbed “the most boring ever”.
A procession
of ministers sashayed into Downing Street as the Tory leader rejigged her team
ahead of a deal with the DUP to stay in power.
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