Sunak re-appoints Nigeria’s Kemi as trade secretary

UK’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has re-appointed British-Nigerian, Kemi Badenoch as International Trade Secretary.

Former Prime Minister, Liz Truss, appointed Kemi Badenoch into her reshuffled Cabinet. Kemi was appointed as the new Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade on Tuesday, Nigerian Tribune reports.

Badenoch rose to prominence during this summer’s leadership contest.

Rishi Sunak has also appointed her as women and equalities minister – a post she held previously during Boris Johnson’s premiership.

Badenoch, MP for Saffron Walden, came fourth in the Tory leadership contest this summer.

The former software engineer worked in banking and later as a director of the Spectator magazine before being elected to the London Assembly.

She entered the Commons as MP for Saffron Walden in 2017, and lists her interests as including engineering and technology, social mobility and integration.

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Jeremy Hunt remains as chancellor – he took on the role after Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget, swiftly scrapping most of it

Suella Braverman is reappointed as home secretary, a week after resigning from the same role, and Grant Shapps replaces Jacob Rees-Mogg as business secretary.

Michael Gove returns to the cabinet as leveling up secretary, Dominic Raab returns as deputy PM and justice secretary, and James Cleverly stays as foreign secretary.

Sunak’s former leadership rival Penny Mordaunt remains leader of the House of Commons

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Sunak officially became UK prime minister earlier today after meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace

In his first speech outside No 10, he said the UK was facing a “profound economic crisis” and that he would fix some of Liz Truss’s mistakes

In a short farewell speech earlier, Truss defended her legacy of trying to push through tax cuts and said leaders had to be bold.