Rishi Sunak has assembled a cupboard that Downing Street says “reflects a united party” after the PM promised to kind a authorities of “all the talents”.
The reshuffle by the UK’s third chief this 12 months has modified the gender and ethnicity steadiness of the cupboard – with some departing ministers having a really brief tenure in key positions.
Here are a few of the key numbers behind the cupboard reshuffle.
An older cupboard
The common age of cupboard ministers is 52, up from 49 underneath Liz Truss.
At 42, Rishi Sunak is likely one of the youngest members of his personal cupboard – with solely two different ministers the identical age: Home Secretary Suella Braverman and International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan is the youngest at 38 years outdated.
Some 15 of the 21 full-time cupboard ministers are aged 50 or over.
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22% of these capable of attend cupboard conferences are ladies
The cupboard has develop into much less various, each when it comes to gender and ethnicity.
In Mr Sunak’s authorities, 22% of all individuals capable of attend cupboard conferences are ladies.
This is down from 32% in the beginning of Ms Truss’s premiership, which was the best proportion ever for a chief minister’s first cupboard.
It can also be decrease than the equal determine for Boris Johnson (24%) and Theresa May (30%).
Five of the 31 individuals capable of attend Mr Sunak’s cupboard are non-white, together with the prime minister.
This is down from seven out of 31 in Liz Truss’s preliminary high staff.
Shortest-serving house secretary changed after six days
Grant Shapps goes into the historical past books because the shortest-serving house secretary in trendy political historical past.
Mr Shapps was given the job by former prime minister Ms Truss on 19 October and lasted simply six days till being changed by Suella Braverman on 25 October.
It represents a really swift return to the position of house secretary for Ms Braverman. She had held the put up instantly earlier than Mr Shapps – however resigned after simply 43 days after breaching the ministerial code.
She is at present the second-shortest serving house secretary since 1900.
If she manages to remain within the job for an additional 19 days, she is going to develop into the third shortest-serving individual to carry the position.
The first feminine deputy prime minister was within the position for simply 49 days
Dominic Raab is returning to the deputy prime minister put up he held from September 2021 to September 2022.
This means Therese Coffey’s spell as the primary girl to formally maintain the position of deputy prime minister lasted simply 49 days.
Only three different individuals have ever been formally appointed to the position: Conservative politician Michael Heseltine (1995 to 1997), Labour’s John Prescott (1997 to 2007) and the Liberal Democrat chief Nick Clegg (2010 to 2015).
Ten training secretaries in 12 years
Gillian Keegan has develop into the UK’s tenth training secretary in 12 years.
The turnover has been so nice that 5 separate individuals have held the job of training secretary within the final 12 months.
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Nine work and pensions secretaries since 2010
New Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride follows within the footsteps of Chloe Smith (2022), Therese Coffey (2019-2022), Amber Rudd (2018-19), Esther McVey (2018), David Gauke (2017-18), Damian Green (2016-17), Stephen Crabb (2016) and Iain Duncan Smith (2010-16).
Gove returning to cupboard after 111 days
Michael Gove is returning to the cupboard – 111 days after he was sacked by Boris Johnson.
Mr Gove has now held six completely different cupboard posts since 2010: training secretary, chief whip, justice secretary, atmosphere secretary, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and levelling up secretary.
Seven transport secretaries in 12 years
Mark Harper is the seventh transport secretary since 2010 and the 14th politician to have cabinet-level accountability for transport since 1997.
Source: information.sky.com”