Jeremy Hunt remains chancellor amid big cabinet reshuffle - BBC

Rishi Sunak has kept Jeremy Hunt arsenic chancellor, amid a large furniture overhaul aft entering Downing Street.

The caller PM has removed cardinal allies of erstwhile person Liz Truss and rewarded immoderate loyal supporters with apical jobs.

Michael Gove and Dominic Raab, cardinal figures successful Boris Johnson's government, person besides returned to furniture roles.

Despite being tipped for a promotion, Mr Sunak's enactment rival Penny Mordaunt stays successful the mid-ranking relation of Commons leader.

Mr Sunak is nether unit to scope retired to antithetic parts of the Conservative Party, aft becoming its 3rd person successful 7 weeks.

A fig of adjacent allies of Ms Truss, including Simon Clarke, Chloe Smith, and Wendy Morton, person near their furniture positions.

Therese Coffey, a adjacent person of the erstwhile premier minister, has besides been demoted from lawman PM to situation secretary.

However a fig of her furniture person kept their roles - including James Cleverly arsenic overseas caput and Kemi Badenoch arsenic commercialized secretary.

Dominic Raab is backmost arsenic lawman PM and justness secretary, roles helium held nether erstwhile person Boris Johnson.

Michael Gove, a seasoned of respective caller Conservative governments, besides returns to the furniture array arsenic levelling-up secretary.

Several of Mr Sunak's longtime allies person been fixed promotions, including Oliver Dowden, who has go Cabinet Office Minister, and Steve Barclay, the caller wellness secretary.

Mel Stride, who ran Mr Sunak's unsuccessful summertime enactment campaign, has been fixed a furniture occupation arsenic enactment and pensions secretary.

Ben Wallace remains defence secretary, a relation helium has held since Mr Johnson entered Downing Street successful July 2019.

But Jacob Rees-Mogg, a large protagonist of Mr Johnson, has been replaced arsenic concern caput by Grant Shapps.

The determination to support Mr Hunt astatine the Treasury has been seen arsenic a determination to reassure fiscal markets, which person seen successful turmoil successful caller weeks successful the aftermath of past month's mini-budget.

Mr Hunt, who reversed astir of the taxation cuts upon his assignment by Ms Truss, is expected to springiness much item of the UK's taxation and spending plans successful a cardinal connection adjacent Monday.

The instrumentality of Ms Braverman, a fig connected the close of the party, has raised eyebrows fixed her melodramatic resignation lone six days ago.

Ms Braverman was forced to measurement down connected what became the last chaotic time of Liz Truss' premiership, aft admitting breaching authorities information rules.

In her resignation letter, she said she had emailed an authoritative papers from her backstage email account, but besides attacked Ms Truss's attack to immigration.

There person been reports that Ms Braverman had been astatine likelihood with Ms Truss implicit plans to unbend migration rules successful a bid to boost economical growth.

Labour criticised her reappointment, with shadiness location caput Yvette Cooper accusing Mr Sunak of "putting enactment earlier country".

Earlier, Mr Rees-Mogg told the BBC the Conservatives would beryllium "toast" unless they pulled together.

Only a mates of hours aft leaving his post, helium returned to the Commons to talk arsenic a backbencher during a statement connected authorities government to regenerate EU laws carried implicit aft Brexit.

Mr Sunak has warned "difficult decisions" prevarication up for his caller administration, arsenic it grapples with a "profound economical crisis".

He said helium had been elected arsenic Tory person to "fix" the "mistakes" made by Ms Truss, who has near aft conscionable 49 days successful office.