Liz Truss Chooses Cabinet Ministers, Appoints Kemi Bedenoch As Secretary of State for International Trade

British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has appointed Kemi Badenoch as a member of her team in a cabinet reshuffle after she (Truss) assumed office on Tuesday.

A tweet posted to the verified Twitter page of the UK Prime Minister, @10DowningStreet, on Tuesday, stated that Badenoch was appointed as the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade.

The post read, “Kemi Badenoch MP @KemiBadenoch has been appointed Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade @TradeGovUK

Other appointments made on Tuesday and approved by the Queen Elizabeth II, as contained in a press release by 10 Downing Street include:

• The Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey MP as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. She will also be Deputy Prime Minister
• The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP as Chancellor of the Exchequer
• The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
• The Rt Hon Suella Braverman QC MP as Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Wendy Morton MP as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip). She will attend Cabinet
• The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP has been re-appointed as Secretary of State for Defence
• The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP as Lord Chancellor, and Secretary of State for Justice
• The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and Minister for Equalities
• The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP as Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord True CBE as Lord Privy Seal, and Leader of the House of Lords
• The Rt Hon Jake Berry MP as Minister without Portfolio
• The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP has been re-appointed as COP26 President
• The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• The Rt Hon Simon Clarke MP as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Kemi Badenoch MP as Secretary of State for International Trade
• Chloe Smith MP as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• The Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP as Secretary of State for Education
• Ranil Jayawardena MP as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP as Secretary of State for Transport
• The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
• The Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris MP as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• The Rt Hon Alister Jack MP has been re-appointed as Secretary of State for Scotland
• The Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland KBE QC MP has been re-appointed as Secretary of State for Wales
• Chris Philp MP as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He will attend Cabinet