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THE new Prime Minister is expected to begin naming her new Cabinet this evening after taking over from Boris Johnson, who was forced to resign over his handling of a series of scandals.
He became the first prime minister in history to be fined while in office after he was found to have broken his own pandemic lockdown rules.
MPs are still considering whether Mr Johnson misled them over the affair.
In a speech outside No 10, Mr Johnson pledged his “fervent support” for his successor Liz Truss.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner labelled Mr Johnson’s speech “completely deluded.”
She said there had been no acknowledgement of “the scandal and sleaze that has engulfed his party and his government over the last couple of years.”
The process of appointing Ms Truss’s first Cabinet continued after the Star went to print, but it is thought her administration will be even more right-wing than its predecessor and not the “government of all the talents” touted during the election campaign.
Sources predict Therese Coffey — one of Liz Truss’s long-term political allies and chair of her leadership campaign — is set to be made deputy prime minister, as well as health secretary.
Ms Coffey has been secretary of state at the Department for Work and Pensions under Mr Johnson.
It has been widely trailed that Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng will take over as the new chancellor and James Cleverley will replace Ms Truss as foreign secretary.
Before Ms Truss began appointing her new team she received word of the resignation from the front benches of two Johnson loyalists, former home secretary Priti Patel and former culture secretary Nadine Dorries.
Ms Dorries claimed she had been asked to stay on by Ms Truss, but decided to return to the back benches.
Ms Patel announced her decision in a letter to outgoing PM Mr Johnson, in which said she would give Ms Truss her support from the back benches.
Ms Truss had been widely expected to remove Ms Patel from the position, and is predicted to replace her with Attorney General Suella Braverman.
