Boris Johnson undertook a major refresh of his government this week with some striking

new appointments to the cabinet and the sacking of several long-standing allies.

He has removed people from government not because they're incompetent, not because they

weren't loyal enough, etc, which all the often the sort of narratives you see, but because

often he has to refresh his team and move out the way, move people out the way.

Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British

politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne.

This week we'll be dissecting the Prime Minister's first major reach of all of the parliament.

We'll be looking at who went up, who went sideways and those who went down, and what

this all tells us about where the Johnson government is going next.

Please go edit to George Parker and put a corresponding law of use, we'll take us

into what happened.

And later we'll be discussing a new book, Broken Heartlands, a journey through Labour's

lost England by me.

I've been putling around England for the last year trying to find out whether the party

can win back the part of the country at last.

I'll be chatting through what I find out with our Chief Political Correspondent, Jim Picard.

So with a very big political story this week, let's get into the main topic.

Boris Johnson has been threatening to reach her for his cabinet for some time and finally

did so on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister made some significant surgery to his top team, with Liz Truss going to the

Foreign Office, Michael Gove to oversee the levelling up agenda, and it seems to

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