New Cabinet Meets Today - Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid Promoted in Reshuffle

Following an unexpected majority win for the Conservatives, David Cameron completes his cabinet reshuffle with a number of promotions for leading female ministers.
  
Full list of appointments announced so far... 
(Biographies available on request from [email protected])
 
•    The Rt Hon George Osborne MP becomes First Secretary of State and continues as Chancellor of the Exchequer 
•    The Rt Hon Theresa May continues as Home Secretary 
•    The Rt Hon Philip Hammond continues as Foreign Secretary 
•    The Rt Hon Michael Fallon continues as Secretary of State for Defence 
•    The Rt Hon Michael Gove becomes Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice 
•    The Rt Hon Chris Grayling becomes Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons 
•    The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan continues as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities 
•    Mark Harper MP becomes Chief Whip (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury)
•    Baroness Stowell is promoted to Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal 
•    Amber Rudd MP becomes Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 
•    Priti Patel MP becomes Minister of State (Minister for Employment) and attends Cabinet
•    Robert Halfon MP becomes Minister without Portfolio and attends Cabinet 
•    The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP becomes Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
•    John Whittingdale MP becomes Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
•    The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP continues as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
•    The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP continues as Secretary of State for Transport 
•    The Rt Hon Liz Truss continues as Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs 
•    Anna Soubry MP becomes Minister of State (Minister for Small Business) and attends Cabinet 
•    The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP becomes Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government
•    The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP continues as Secretary of State for International Development 
•    The Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP continues as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 
•    The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP continues as Secretary of State for Health 
•    The Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP continues as Secretary of State for Wales 
•    The Rt Hon Greg Hands MP becomes Chief Secretary to the Treasury and will attend Cabinet
•    The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP becomes Minister for Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
     (Minister for Efficiency & Civil Service Reform)
•    The Rt Hon David Mundell MP becomes Secretary of State for Scotland 
•    Boris Johnson MP becomes a member of Cabinet
•    Jeremy Wright is to remain as Attorney General
•    Grant Shapps MP becomes Minister of State at the Department for International Development
•    Lord Feldman becomes Conservative Party Chairman and will attend political Cabinet

Further ministerial appointments:
  
•    Ros Altmann becomes Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions (Minister for Pensions) 
•    Mark Francois MP becomes Minister of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government
•    Penny Mordaunt MP becomes Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence (Minister for the Armed Forces)
•     John Hayes MP becomes Minister of State at the Home Office (Minister for State Security)
•    Alastair Burt MP becomes Minister of State at the Department of Health
•    Jo Johnson MP becomes Minister of State at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills
     (Minister for Universities and Science)
•    Philip Dunne MP becomes Minister of State for Defence (Minister for Defence Procurement)
•    Edward Timpson MP becomes Minister of State at the Department for Education (Minister for Children and Families)
•    Nick Boles MP remains as Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Minister for Skills) 
•    George Eustice MP becomes Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
•    Andrea Leadsom MP becomes Minister of State at the Department for Energy and Climate Change 
•    Anne Milton MP becomes Deputy Chief Whip (Treasurer of the HM Household)
•    Therese Coffey MP becomes Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
•     Harriet Baldwin MP becomes Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister)

Labour conducted their own reshuffle too…
   
•    Leader of the Opposition and Acting Leader of the Labour Party - Harriet Harman MP
•    Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer - Chris Leslie MP
•    Shadow Foreign Secretary - Hilary Benn MP
•    Shadow Home Secretary - Yvette Cooper MP
•    Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice - Lord Falconer of Thoroton
•    Opposition Chief Whip – Rosie Winterton MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Health - Andy Burnham MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills - Chuka Umunna MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - Rachel Reeves MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Education - Tristram Hunt MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Defence - Vernon Coaker MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government - Emma Reynolds MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change - Caroline Flint MP
•    Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Chair of the National Policy Forum - Angela Eagle MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Transport - Michael Dugher MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland - Ivan Lewis MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for International Development - Mary Creagh MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland - Ian Murray MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Wales - Owen Smith MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Maria Eagle MP
•    Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office - Lucy Powell MP
•    Shadow Minister without Portfolio and Deputy Party Chair - Jon Trickett MP
•    Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities - Gloria De Piero MP
•    Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport - Chris Bryant MP
•    Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Shabana Mahmood MP
•    Shadow Leader of the House of Lords - Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
•    Lords Chief Whip - Lord Bassam of Brighton

Also attending Shadow Cabinet:
  
•    Shadow Minister for Care and Older People - Liz Kendall MP
•    Shadow Attorney General – Lord Bach