majority in his seat in cheltenham, but he does a ministerial experience as defence minister but also crucially a senior lawyer and barrister so he should technically know his stuff. interesting that the job of deputy prime minister and secretary has been split so oliver dowden, the very close ally of rishi sunak, as close an ally of dominic mac raab was. he now becomes deputy prime minister is holding on to his position with the cabinet office or his very much at the heart of government but he will also be taking a strong campaigning role as well. clearly, numberten has decided to effectively make this announcement is at once because we know michelle donnellan, the science and technology secretary, will be going on maternity leave soon so they have announced an interim replacement was chloe smith. that s interesting because their husbands
a situation where other senior members of the cabinet would act as an informal deputy prime minister. it wasn t an absolute requirement to fulfil that role. fulfil that role. yes, there is no contribution fulfil that role. yes, there is no contribution requirement - fulfil that role. yes, there is no contribution requirement for i fulfil that role. yes, there is no| contribution requirement for the prime minister to have a deputy. we have had a variety of first secretary of states or deputy prime minister is in the sense and is becoming a more regular position. i think the choice of appointing dowden is bringing his effect into the spotlight and i think it allows some coherence and policy. michelle donnellan is about also to go on maternity leave and so they will hope to have may be a mini shuffle to fill her position and also a new ministerfor to fill her position and also a new minister for defence will need to be found to replace alex chalk. that will be a small headache for the
essentially did a right hand and government role already for the prime minister. so quite a logical person to take over there. alex chalk is the newjustice secretary because of his held a number of ministerial positions and is someone who is quite close to rishi sunak so no great surprises there. we also have the signed secretary michelle donnellan who will shortly be going on maternity leave. she will be replaced by chloe smith who has previously sat in the cabinet when liz truss was prime minister, that short lived prime minister ship. she will be replacing michelle donnellan when she goes on maternity live. close smith will be standing down the next election so it does not look like any sort of long term ministerial ambitions there. nothing too surprising. ministerial ambitions there. nothing too surprising- too surprising. thank you for taking ou too surprising. thank you for taking you through too surprising. thank you for taking you through all too surprising. thank you for
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topic but it can make a difference to how even whether gutman works. there is a new department for energy security and necklace era, here is the man in charge, grant chaps. who else? it is all a bit back in the future, there was a department called energy and climate change until it was scrapped, which labour have been quick to point out. there is a new department for science, innovation and technology, led by michelle donnellan, business and trade brought together in the same department of the lucy fraser will lead the department for culture, media and sport, media and sport. this man is the new conservative party chairman, he is replacing nadhim zahawi, he was sacked after that row about his taxes. none of this is anything to do with the future of dominic wrap, he is facing allegations of bullying dominic