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Truss's cabinet: Who's in? Who's out?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss has appointed her cabinet. Allies of Rishi Sunak are out, and the former foreign secretary's closest allies are in. What does this mean for her government? Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

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0:24.0

Now let's try to start to form her government and we have seen the initial call.

0:29.0

I think the word there is probably Sunak.

0:32.0

If you're back to Sunak then you had a very high chance of being called.

0:35.0

Perhaps a hundred percent chance we'll go through there.

0:38.0

And then we've also had a sense of the main appointments in terms of the great office of state.

0:43.0

Quasi Quataang is Chancellor, Taree's Coffee is Deputy Prime Minister and House Secretary.

0:49.0

Isabella Bravenman is Home Secretary and James Clevverly is Foreign Secretary.

0:54.0

Just to begin, can you talk us through, Isabella, who has left government?

1:00.0

So to no one's surprise, Dominic Rob has left government.

1:06.0

Maybe to Dominic Rob's surprise.

1:08.0

To Dominic Rob, well yes, but potentially he did describe Trust's economic plans as an electoral suicide note.

1:18.0

So that wasn't a big surprise, Grant Shaps, another Rishi Sunak supporter, Steve Barkley, another Rishi Sunak supporter, Andrew Stephenson.

1:28.0

Probably a little bit more of a surprise in some senses, although Prime Ministers do like to have their own people in as chairs of the party.

1:38.0

All of those figures are out.

1:41.0

And as you said in your introduction, Katie, the common theme there is generally that if you supported Rishi Sunak, you are not staying in this government.

1:48.0

And so you then move to looking at who she has appointed in the great offices of state or at least the big sort of priority departments.

1:57.0

They're mostly her mates, actually.

1:59.0

People who she sees eye to eye with on policy and ideology, but also Quasi Quataang, who is the Chancellor, is her neighbour in Greenwich.

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