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UK: Sunak culls Ms Truss’s top-tier ministers + Braverman outrage (PM hobbies)

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Outrage after Suella Braverman made home secretary - just six days after being sacked for breaching the ministerial code
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/outrage-after...ng-sacked/

EXCERPTS: New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sparked outrage by making Suella Braverman home secretary - just six days after being fired for breaking the ministerial code.

[...] Ms Braverman, a hardliner on immigration, was sacked by former Prime Minister Liz Truss on October 19 for sharing an official document on a private email account.

She was also extremely critical of Ms Truss in her letter resigning from the job, which she held for less than two months.

[...] Labour MP and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said after Ms Braverman was appointed that she was a "terrible choice" for the role... (MORE - missing details)

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New UK PM Rishi Sunak vows to rectify ‘mistakes’ of disastrous Truss tenure
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/eu...95580.html

EXCERPTS: The new UK prime minister, in his first day in the job yesterday culled nearly a dozen of Ms Truss’s top-tier ministers including Jacob Rees-Mogg before reviving the careers of ousted frontbenchers.

[...] Boris Johnson loyalists who stayed close to Ms Truss ... were among the 11 ministers who were out of government as Mr Sunak axed figures from Ms Truss’s cabinet.

Dominic Raab was rewarded with deputy prime minister and justice secretary, roles he held under Mr Johnson before being sacked by Ms Truss for his support of Mr Sunak.

Penny Mordaunt came out of the reshuffle as Commons Leader, failing to win a promotion after she challenged Mr Sunak in the Tory leadership race, which he won without a vote being cast.

Therese Coffey, one of Ms Truss’s closest friends in Westminster, was demoted from deputy PM and health secretary to become environment secretary. James Cleverly was kept on as foreign secretary and Ben Wallace as defence secretary, showing Mr Sunak was not entirely breaking with the past two administrations.

Simon Hart was brought in as chief whip to restore party discipline, with Mr Sunak having warned the party: “Unite or die.” (MORE - missing details)

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