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Cabinet reshuffle: Justine Greening quits the government No 10 confirms – as it happened

Theresa May heading back into No 10 after posing for a picture with her new Conservative party chairman Brandon Lewis (standing on May’s right), James Cleverly, the new Conservative deputy chairman (standing on her left) and the party’s new vice chairmen.
Theresa May heading back into No 10 after posing for a picture with her new Conservative party chairman Brandon Lewis (standing on May’s right), James Cleverly, the new Conservative deputy chairman (standing on her left) and the party’s new vice chairmen.

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End of day summary

I am closing this liveblog now. Thanks so much for joining us today and for all your comments.

Here’s a round up of today’s reshuffle or “refresh” as Theresa May called it:

  • At the end of May’s new year reshuffle, all of the top jobs remain in the same hands although some new faces have joined the ranks. Her plans were thrown off course when senior members of the cabinet refused to move.
  • Jeremy Corbyn said the reshuffle was a “pointless and lacklustre PR exercise”.
  • The biggest shock of the day happened when Justine Greening quit the government after turning down a job as work and pensions secretary. She was replaced by Damian Hinds while Esther McVey becomes the new work and pensions secretary
  • Jeremy Hunt refused to be moved to a new position as business secretary and instead persuaded May to allow him to stay in health but with social care added to his portfolio.
  • Matt Hancock was promoted to the cabinet as culture secretary, David Gauke moved to justice and David Lidington to the cabinet office. Greg Clark stays in his role after it was expected he would be promoted.
  • Karen Bradley was appointed Northern Ireland secretary after James Brokenshire resigned on health grounds ahead of surgery on a lung condition.
  • Brandon Lewis is to be the new party chairman. James Cleverly was appointed deputy chair, while there were 13 additional posts of vice chair covering areas such as youth, women, communities, business and policy.
  • May’s decision to appoint Maria Caulfield as the new Conservative vice chair for women was met with criticism from women’s campaigners as Caulfield opposes the decriminalisation of abortion.
  • There will be more changes on Tuesday in the junior and middle ministerial levels.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg says the reshuffle did not “entirely go to script” as of the three ministers Theresa May wanted to move, one quit, one persuaded her that he should stay and the other consequently wasn’t moved.

She also pointed out that the proportion of those from Oxbridge and private school backgrounds has increased.

Updated

Amber Rudd will take over the responsibilities of being minister for women and equalities – a role that was carried out by Justine Greening.

My colleagues Anushka Asthana and Rowena Mason have got the full story on today’s events.

Theresa May’s new year reshuffle was thrown off course when senior members of the cabinet refused to move and Justine Greening quit the government after turning down a job as work and pensions secretary.

Earlier, Jeremy Hunt rejected a new position as business secretary and instead persuaded the prime minister to allow him to remain at health in a beefed-up role taking on more responsibility for social care.

That meant that a planned move for Greg Clark did not go ahead, and he instead remained at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

The result was a less dramatic shake-up than planned on a day that began with a social media gaffe in which the Conservatives’ official Twitter feed wrongly congratulated Chris Grayling for becoming party chair. In fact, Patrick McLoughlin was replaced by Brandon Lewis, the Great Yarmouth MP, and Grayling remained as transport secretary.

Read more here:

Beth Rigby of Sky News says there has been some progress on the gender mix of cabinet with two more women attending than before today’s reshuffle.

However, Henry Zeffman from The Times points out that only six are full members.

Earlier the Daily Telegraph’s Christopher Hope pointed out how all those who have joined cabinet today are white.

Updated

And that’s it for tonight. Number 10 have ended the day with a tweet about the number of women who will attend cabinet and said more ministerial appointments will be made tomorrow.

Julian Smith stays on as chief whip. He has been in post since November when Gavin Williamson, who previously held the post, was promoted to Defence Secretary by Theresa May.

My colleague Claire Phipps has sent me a screengrab of yet another Conservsative social media gaffe, this time from Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi.

Earlier this evening, Jeremy Hunt liked – and then “unliked” – a tweet about Justine Greening resigning and this morning the Conservatives mistakenly announced Chris Grayling as chairman in a tweet that quickly got deleted.

Here, Zahawi has shared Labour MP Lisa Nandy’s strong criticism of Esther McVey, the new secretary of state for work and pensions. The retweet was also deleted shortly after.

Screengrab of Nadhim Zahawi’s Twitter feed.
Screengrab of Nadhim Zahawi’s Twitter feed. Photograph: Twitter

Updated

Elizabeth Truss will stay on as chief secretary to the treasury.

Andrea Leadsom remains Leader of the House of Commons, Downing Street said.

Here’s the hot take from former Conservative minister Nicholas Soames.

There was sympathy for Justine Greening following her resignation, and regret from many in the sector who have welcomed her less combative approach and her willingness to listen to teachers’ concerns.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said her departure was disappointing at a time when stability was needed in the sector after the “policy pyrotechnics” of recent years.

He said:

She has tried hard to tackle the school funding crisis, without any help from the Chancellor or Prime Minister. She has demonstrated an absolute commitment to social mobility, to addressing the serious difficulties in teacher recruitment and retention, and to developing education policy on the basis of evidence.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said: “Free from needless ‘big ticket’ policy announcements significant progress has been made lately on areas like primary assessment.”

He praised Greening’s work on careers’ guidance in schools, sex and relationships education and social mobility.

Children need stability and their teachers can only provide that if the backdrop of education policy provides continuity for the profession.

New secretaries of state often feel that new announcements are obligatory. In 2018, where budgets are at breaking point and recruitment is still a massive challenge, education does not need more upheaval.

Jules White, head teacher and a key figure in the Worth Less? Campaign for fair funding for schools, added: “The issues of teacher supply, adequate funding and opportunity for all young people must be effectively and urgently addressed.”

He noted that the new education secretary was a former grammar school pupil – unlike Greening who went to a comprehensive – with a stated commitment to improving social mobility.

We hope that he fully understands these two items are inextricably linked whilst all the independent evidence confirms that grammar schools and widespread social mobility are mutually exclusive.

Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the National Education Union, said:

We had a good relationship with Justine Greening, with whom we had regular meetings. She listened to teachers and the unions, although she was not able to make the necessary changes in education policy.

We hope Damian Hinds will be similarly willing to meet and engage with us and the profession. And we hope he will be able to make the changes we need in education policy. Most crucially we hope he champions the need for extra funding for education and is able to get more money for education from the Treasury.

Updated

Angela Rayner, shadow education secretary, has wished Justine Greening well in the future in a tweet following her surprise decision to leave government.

Meanwhile the Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has said this of Theresa May’s decision to let Greening go:

The only rational explanation would be that this is an acknowledgement that the Conservatives have a failed schools policy.

A department of health spokeswoman has released a statement regarding Jeremy Hunt’s new role, after it was announced he would also be taking on the social care portfolio as well as staying on as secretary of state for health.

The spokeswoman confirmed the department will be changing names and that Hunt will be responsible for the forth coming social care green paper.

She said:

From today the department will be renamed Department of Health and Social Care, taking on responsibility for the forthcoming social care green paper which will set out the Government’s proposals to improve care and support for older people and tackle the challenge of an ageing population.

All costs associated with changing the department’s name will be kept to a minimum.

My colleague Heather Stewart looks back on today’s largely underwhelming reshuffle.

By the end of Monday, Theresa May must have felt like all the other hapless British workers who returned to the office for the new year with a spring in their step and the best of intentions, only to find the fearless resolutions they made over the Christmas break crumbling in the face of reality.

Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle: promotions, demotions and exitsRead more

The prime minister had three main aims in her much-trailed new year reshuffle. She hoped to showcase a fresh generation of Tory talent; shake up the party election-fighting machinery that misfired so badly last year; and show her determination to get to grips with domestic challenges that have been all but overshadowed by Brexit for the past 12 months.

It didn’t start well. The Conservatives’ official media account tweeted its congratulations to Brexiteer Chris Grayling as the Tory party’s new chair – but staff rapidly had to backtrack and delete the message.

It was some time before Brandon Lewis, the ebullient immigration minister, was formally given the post, as deadlines were missed and progress slipped.

Read the full piece here:

Caroline Nokes has been appointed minister of state for immigration.

Lucy Fisher from The Times has her own prediction about the women and equalities brief. She suggests Theresa May may make the role a cabinet position in its own right following the Westminster sexual harassment scandal.

Jeremy Wright remains as attorney general and will attend cabinet.

Justine Greening has released a short statement on Twitter in the wake of her resignation from government. She says it was an “honour and privilege” to serve since 2010 and that social mobility “matters more” than her ministerial career.

Claire Perry will attend Cabinet and take on the role of minister of state at the department for business, energy and industrial strategy. She will also become member of the Privy Council.

The Evening Standard’s editor (and former chancellor) George Osborne has called the reshuffle “unusual” in a tweet praising his old colleagues.

Esther McVey becomes Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the role was turned down by Justine Greening.

In an embarrassing twist to a reshuffle beset with social media mistakes, Jeremy Hunt, who was kept on as health secretary with an extended social care role in the shake-up, was forced to explain why he had “liked” a tweet stating that Justine Greening had resigned from government.

He quickly unliked the tweet after it was spotted by Guido Fawkes’ Alex Wickham.

Updated

For those just joining us, here is the full story so far on Theresa May’s cabinet refresh from my colleague Peter Walker.

Justine Greening resigned from the government on Monday after Theresa May tried to move her from her post as secretary of state for education to the Department for Work and Pensions in a cabinet reshuffle designed to reboot her government.

In a statement Theresa May said said she was “disappointed” but respects Greening’s decision. Greening was succeeded as education secretary by Damian Hinds who was promoted from being a junior work and pensions minister.

Earlier May kept Jeremy Hunt as her health secretary with new responsibility for social care, signalling that the prime minister wants to make another attempt to reform the troubled system.

The rest of the story is here:

ITV’s Paul Brand has predicted Claire Perry, who has just arrived at number 10, will be the new minister for women and equalities. Justine Greening previously held the role alongside her education job.

Brand also suggests Esther McVey could get the department for work and pensions.

Damian Hinds has been appointed Education Secretary, taking Justine Greening’s job.

Alun Cairns MP is to remain the secretary of state for Wales.

Justine Greening was once dubbed a “Tory to watch” back in 2013. Here’s an interview from shortly after she had become the international development secretary, a position she held before taking on the department for education in 2016.

Theresa May is “disappointed” but respects former education secretary Justine Greening’s decision to leave the Government after being offered the Work and Pensions Department, Downing Street sources have said.

British Prime Minister Reshuffles Her CabinetLONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Justine Greening leaves 10 Downing Street after resigning from the position of Secretary of State for Education as Prime Minister Theresa May reshuffles her cabinet on January 8, 2018 in London, England. Today’s Cabinet reshuffle is Theresa May’s third since becoming Prime Minister in July 2016 and was triggered after she sacked first secretary of state and close friend Damian Green before Christmas. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Justine Greening leaves 10 Downing Street after resigning from government. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Updated

The Telegraph’s Asa Bennett suggests Greening may join the high profile Tory remainers who rebelled against the government in December.

The BBC’s Nick Robinson agrees.

Updated

Justine Greening has resigned

Downing Street have confirmed that Justine Greening has resigned from government.

Anushka Asthana, our political editor, says Greening was “offered DWP, but declined to take it”.

Updated

Justine Greening has been seen leaving number 10. No news yet on what she will be doing, if anything.

Updated

David Mundell stays on as secretary of state for Scotland.

Baroness Evans is remaining in post as the leader of the House of Lords.

Justine Greening is still inside number 10 with The Sun’s Tom Newton Dunn saying she has been offered the department of work and pensions but is refusing to take it.

Jeremy Corbyn has been discussing the reshuffle in a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, saying it is a “pointless and lacklustre” PR stunt.

He said:

In 2018, the impact of Tory austerity is hitting home with the public, most tragically with the most serious NHS winter crisis yet.

And yet the Government’s big plan for the new year is to dodge the real issues and reshuffle the pack in a pointless and lacklustre PR exercise.

It’s simply not good enough. You can’t make up for nearly eight years of failure by changing the name of a department.

Michael Gove is also staying on in his role heading up the department for environment, food and rural affairs, making him the 12th cabinet minister to stay put.

Updated

This is Nicola Slawson taking over from Andrew for the remainder of this mini shuffle.

The latest is that Penny Mordaunt is staying on as Secretary of State for International Development. She has only been doing the role since early November, when she succeeded Priti Patel.

Updated

Channel 4 News’s Gary Gibbon has written a good blog on the reshuffle. It is headlined: “Reshuffle: night of the long plastic forks.”

Here’s an extract.

Well it wasn’t really worth the drum roll build-up. As reshuffles go this has not been transformatory. There’s more still to come tomorrow with middle and junior ranks outside the cabinet, but Theresa may has not felt able to shift big irritants from senior jobs and, as I write, has yet to announce any cabinet sackings ...

But it seems like quite a lot of power has migrated to Vote Leave leaders Michael Gove and Boris Johnson in recent months. They decree what Brexit supporters will tolerate as the negotiations progress. Some think it was fear of their reaction that meant the prime minister didn’t reverse the decision to appoint Toby Young as a director of the Office for Students. His tweets and other public comments would be the sort of stuff that people close to Theresa May say she would find repugnant. Her reflex would be to make that clear by removing him from the post, allies say. But what hope a really drastic reshuffle from a prime minister who can’t act as she pleases over a board member of a university regulator? The small scale of this reshuffle reveals the prime minister’s weakened political position … but, she’s still there.

That’s all from me for today. My colleague Nicola Slawson is taking over now.

Updated

This is from the FT’s George Parker.

Chris Grayling remains as transport secretary.

Here is ITV’s Robert Peston on the prevalence of Conservative party vice chairmen.

This may be a bit harsh. But now there are more Tory vice chairs (13) than there are Lib Dem MPs (12).

Liam Fox remains as international trade secretary

Meanwhile, the parliamentary Labour party is meeting. According to the Daily Mirror’s Mikey Smith, the leading pro-European Chuka Umunna has just walked out.

Sky’s Tamara Cohen may have the explanation.

As Guido Fawkes’s Alex Wickham points out, the new secretary of state at DCMS is already noted for his contribution towards cultural excellence. Here is Matt Hancock singing.

Who has moved? What we know so far

Here are the reshuffle moves that have been confirmed.

Promotions

David Lidington becomes Cabinet Office minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. This means he replaces Damian Green as the government’s cross-departmental fixer, although he has not inherited Green’s first secretary of state title.

Brandon Lewis becomes Conservative party chairman, and a minister without portfolio. Previously he was immigration minister, attending cabinet but not as a full member.

Matt Hancock becomes culture secretary. He was minister for digital in the department.

James Cleverly becomes Conservative party deputy chairman. He was a backbencher and parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Lewis.

Sideways moves

David Gauke becomes justice secretary and lord chancellor. He was work and pensions secretary.

Karen Bradley becomes Northern Ireland secretary. She was culture secretary.

Changes to job titles

Jeremy Hunt becomes secretary of state for health and social care. He was previously just health secretary.

Sajid Javid becomes secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. He was previously just secretary of state for communities and local government.

Demotions and departures

Sir Patrick McLoughlin has resigned as Conservative party chairman.

James Brokenshire has resigned as Northern Ireland secretary on health grounds.

Chris Skidmore has left his post as minister for the constitution. He is now Conservative vice chairman for policy.

Andrew Jones has left his post as a Treasury minister. He is now Conservative vice chairman for business engagement.

Marcus Jones has left his post as communities minister. He is now Conservative vice chairman for local government.

Matt Hancock appointed culture secretary

Matt Hancock, the minister for digital, has become culture secretary.

Here is some opposition comment on the reshuffle.

From Labour’s Jon Trickett, the shadow Cabinet Office minister

With the NHS in crisis, working people worse off and Brexit preparations in turmoil, Theresa May is leading a failing government.

By simply rearranging the deckchairs in her reshuffle, Theresa May has shown that her floundering government is out of fresh ideas. It takes more than re-naming departments to erase seven years of failure.

What the country desperately needs is a new approach. With Jeremy Corbyn, that’s what Labour offers: a new Britain, run in the interests of the many, not the few.

From Stephen Gethins, the SNP’s foreign affairs and Europe spokesman

Today’s shambolic on-going cabinet reshuffle has confirmed that Theresa May is a prisoner to the Brexit hard liners who now hold the power in the government, and cannot be moved. They are calling the tune.

The truth is that this prime minister cannot make a move without upsetting one faction or another of her party – and her authority since her disastrous election is being diminished day by day.

This has created a revolving door government in which we have had six justice secretaries in 7 years - four immigration ministers in as many years and the shortest serving party chairman in history – congratulated on his appointment by the party - and then removed within half an hour.

The prime minister should be focused on saving jobs and the economy from the Brexit disaster not just the jobs of top Tories who created the mess.

From Alistair Carmichael, the Lib Dem chief whip

Just like Theresa May’s U-turn on the hated dementia tax, this reshuffle can be summed up with the phrase ‘nothing has changed.’

We still have a hapless prime minister and an incompetent government, dragging the country towards a destructive Brexit.

Theresa May wanted to reassert her authority but has come out of this looking weaker than ever.

Here is the BBC’s health editor Hugh Pym on whether or not changing the name of the department of health to include social care actually makes any difference or not. Like the rest of us, he doesn’t know.

I’ve asked Number 10 but they referred me to the department of health. And the department of health press office said someone would get back to me with an answer. I’m still waiting ...

Marc Stears, who was an adviser to Ed Miliband when he was Labour leader, reckons that if Theresa May can get out-negotiated by Jeremy Hunt (see 5.51pm), she does not have much chance with Michel Barnier and Jean-Claude Juncker.

Karen Bradley leaving Number 10 after being made Northern Ireland secretary.
Karen Bradley leaving Number 10 after being made Northern Ireland secretary. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

The Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb, who used to be a social care minister in the department of health, reckons the change to the department’s name (see 4.44pm and 5.45pm) is just cosmetic.

And Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, has gone into Number 10 too.

Matt Hancock, minister for digital at the culture department, has arrived at Number 10.

Karen Bradley moves from culture to become Northern Ireland secretary

Karen Bradley, the culture secretary, is replacing James Brokenshire as Northern Ireland secretary.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is also saying that Theresa May wanted to move Jeremy Hunt but was persuaded to let him stay.

Damian Hinds, minister of state at the department for work and pensions, has arrived at Number 10, the BBC reports.

This is from Nick Golding, editor of the Local Government Chronicle, on Jeremy Hunt getting social care added to his departmental title.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg says Hunt will take charge of the adult social care green paper.

As mentioned earlier, David Gauke will be the sixth justice secretary in less than eight years. At the afternoon lobby briefing Downing Street denied that having such a high turnover was a problem. The prime minister’s spokesman said:

The commitment from the government throughout its time has been into ensuring that rehabilitation is a priority and to break the cycle of reoffending. That has been a continuous theme and I’m sure it will be one that the new secretary of state will continue with.

This is from the BBC’s Denis Doherty.

The health minister Philip Dunne has committed a gaffe while defending the government’s handling of the NHS winter crisis in the Commons when he was responding to the Commons urgent questions earlier. When Labour MP Tracy Brabin raised the issue of poorly people sleeping on the floor in A&E, he apologised for cancelled operations and said people sleeping on the floor was not acceptable but added: “There are seats available in most hospitals where beds are not available.”

David Gauke moves from work and pensions to become justice secretary

David Gauke has moved from the department for work and pensions to the ministry for justice.

Updated

The Conservative party has now send out a press notice about today’s party appointments. In addition to the nine vice chair posts announced earlier (see 1.41pm), the party has confirmed that another four vice chairmen remain in post. They are:

David Brownlow - vice chairman, campaigning

Dominic Johnson - vice chairman, finance

Paul Scully - vice chairman, London

Alec Shelbrooke - vice chairman, international

Gavin Williamson remains as defence secretary

The Sun’s Tom Newton Dunn says it wasn’t Greg Clark who refused to budge; it was Jeremy Hunt.

The Sun’s Tom Newton Dunn says Jeremy Hunt was supposed to come out of Number 10 as the new business secretary.

Updated

Clark stays as business secretary

Greg Clark is staying as business secretary. There was a lot of speculation, fuelled by briefing from within government, that he was going to be moved, but he’s defied predictions.

Lidington to stand in for May at PMQs when she's away, No 10 says

David Lidington, the new Cabinet Office minister, will stand in for Theresa May at PMQs when she is away, Number 10 has said.

Hunt becomes secretary of state for health and social care

Jeremy Hunt becomes secretary of state for health and social care, Number 10 says.

At first sight this just looks like a tokenistic tweak to his job title - which is effectively what has happened with Sajid Javid and housing (see 3.08pm) - but this may turn out to be much more significant. Social care is currently funded through local government (the minister responsible for adult social care in DCLG was Marcus Jones, who today lost his job). If Hunt’s new title is to mean anything, then presumably he will take over responsibility for this portfolio. It could be a real step forwards towards the integration of health and social care, a long-term ambition for policy makers in this area.

We have not had any briefing on the move yet, but presumably Number 10 will clarify this soon.

Updated

Theresa May’s intermission with members of the Welsh assembly is over, and the reshuffle is back on, Sky’s Faisal Islam reports.

As BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has 90 minutes to prepare her reshuffle package for the News at Six. It sounds as if she’s worrying about not having anything to report ...

This is from the Times’ Patrick Maguire.

Here is another Institute for Government reshuffle graph.

Theresa May is now meeting members of the Welsh assembly. Perhaps one of them will end up as the new first secretary of state ...

May criticised over abortion record of new Conservative vice chair for women

Theresa May’s promotion of Maria Caulfield to a new role as vice chair for women has provoked outrage over her views on abortion.

Labour branded the appointment an “appalling decision”, while the British Pregnancy Advice service said it was “incredibly disappointing”.

Caulfield led opposition to the campaign to decriminalise abortion last year, arguing that more consideration should be given to the rights of the unborn child.

She spoke out against Diana Johnson’s ten-minute rule bill to decriminalise abortion, saying “more must be done to effectively combat the dangerous liberalisation of abortion, which hides under the premise of championing women’s rights”.

Caulfield, a former nurse who still does some hospital shifts, said she was delighted by the new role and tweeted about her efforts to make sure women in custody have access to sanitary products.

But Dawn Butler, the shadow women and equalities secretary, said it
was a very bad decision given Caulfield’s stance on abortion. “Women deserve to have the strongest advocates at the top of politics, not people who seek to restrict their rights and freedoms,” she said.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said it was “incredibly disappointed” by the appointment as Caulfield had “defended the current law which threatens any woman who ends her own pregnancy without the approval of two doctors with life imprisonment”. It went on:

This is not an abstract issue. Women in across the UK have faced prosecution and prison sentences for ending pregnancies using abortion medication bought online.

These are often women in the most desperate of circumstances. One study found 1 in 5 who tried to use online abortion medication were in a violent or controlling relationship. Should these women face criminal prosecution? According to the new CCHQ vice chair for women, yes.

Updated

These are from Sky’s Faisal Islam.

This is from the BBC’s Hugh Pym.

Last week Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, was refusing to accept that there was an NHS winter crisis.

In the Commons the health minister Philip Dunne has paid tribute to Jeremy Hunt. Labour whips, an official account, reckons that could be a sign Hunt is on the move.

This is from the BBC’s Denis Doherty.

Prospect’s Tom Clark says this is a “nothing has changed’ reshuffle.

If you like machinery of government graphs and quotes from ex-ministers about their time in government (confession: I do), then you’ll agree that Gavin Freeguard’s live blog about the reshuffle for the Institute for Government is excellent.

He’s been tweeting too.

In the Commons the health minister Philip Dunne is responding to the urgent question on the NHS winter crisis. We don’t know yet whether Jeremy Hunt is still his boss, and Dunne hasn’t said.

James Brokenshire, who resigned as Northern Ireland secretary this morning on health grounds, has tweeted a message of thanks to people who have expressed support.

It was his 50th birthday yesterday.

More speculation about how might be the next justice secretary, from the Spectator’s James Forsyth.

Sajid Javid, now secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, leaving Downing Street.
Sajid Javid, now secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, leaving Downing Street. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

And here is my colleague John Crace on Sajid Javid’s new title.

Boris Johnson remains as foreign secretary

Here is ITV’s Robert Peston on Sajid Javid’s new title.

Sajid Javid becomes housing secretary as housing added to his job title

Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, has kept his job. But his department has now got housing in the title, suggesting that housing is now his priority.

Previously he was secretary of state for communities and local government. Now he is secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. In media shorthand, he will probably be known as the housing secretary.

My colleague Alan Travis, the Guardian’s home affairs editor, says David Lidington’s move means the Ministry of Justice will have had six justice secretaries in less than eight years.

And Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, has gone in.

The NHS pin badge may be significant because in July 2016, when May became PM, Hunt arrived to see her during the reshuffle without the badge, in what was seen as a sign that he expected to be moved. He was wearing the badge when he came out, confirmed in post.

Boris Johnson arriving at 10 Downing Street to meet Theresa May.
Boris Johnson arriving at 10 Downing Street to meet Theresa May. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister, Simon Coveney, phoned James Brokenshire today while on a visit to Cairo to wish him well following the news that Brokenshire has resigned as Northern Ireland secretary on health grounds.

Coveney said Brokenshire had shown unfailing dedication and determination to secure political progress consistent with the objectives and commitments of the Good Friday agreement. He said:

His unwavering commitment - in public and in private - over the last year to securing the effective operation of the devolved power-sharing institutions in Belfast has been hugely important.

While it is not always obvious to the public gaze, very important progress has been made on significant issues over the last year and I believe that a positive outcome can still be achieved. If it is, it will be a testament to the quiet, understated but hugely valuable work of James Brokenshire.

Latest speculation ...

From ITV’s Robert Peston

From the FT’s Jim Pickard

At some point we’re going to get a Labour reshuffle too, ITV’s Paul Brand reports.

David Davis remains as Brexit secretary

Greg Clark, the business secretary, has gone in to Number 10. He is expected to be moved.

Theresa May posed for a picture outside Number 10 earlier with Brandon Lewis, the new Conservative party chairman, James Cleverly, the new Conservative party deputy chairman, and the new Conservative party vice chairmen.

Left to right: James Morris, Helen Grant, Marcus Jones, Rehman Chishti, Brandon Lewis, Theresa May, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, Chris Skidmore, Maria Caulfield and Ben Bradley outside Number 10.
Left to right: James Morris, Helen Grant, Marcus Jones, Rehman Chishti, Brandon Lewis, Theresa May, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, Chris Skidmore, Maria Caulfield and Ben Bradley outside Number 10. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

Philip Hammond remains as chancellor.

Amber Rudd remains home secretary

No surprise here ...

Updated

If David Lidington is moving to the Cabinet Office, Dominic Raab must be favourite to replace him. Raab is already minister of state at the ministry for justice - effectively Lidingon’s number two.

David Lidington replaces Damian Green as Cabinet Office minister

David Lidington has moved from justice minister to Cabinet Office minister and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

This means he will take on the Westminster coordinating role (chairing committees etc) that Damian Green had. But May has not made Lidington first secretary of state, the title that Green also had.

Perhaps someone else is getting that title. Or perhaps (contrary to the steer we were getting yesterday) May will the title lapse. In the past many PMs have managed perfectly well without a first secretary of state.

David Lidington.
David Lidington. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Three junior ministers leave government

A government source has confirmed that the three new Conservative vice chairmen who were ministers have now left the government. They are: Chris Skidmore, the minister for the constitution; Andrew Jones, a Treasury minister; and Marcus Jones, the communities minister.

It is hard to believe that any of them would have voluntarily given up a (paid) government job for an (unpaid) position with the party, and so it is probably that case that they have been sacked. But I haven’t been told that, and it is conceivable that one or all of them may have voluntarily opted for a quieter life.

Tories appoint 9 new party vice chairmen

And Conservative HQ has also announced the appointment of nine new vice chairmen.

Three of them were until this morning junior ministers. This may well mean that they have been sacked - vice chairmen are not normally government ministers - but that has not been confirmed yet.

Being a vice chairman of the Conservative party is a bit like being vice president of an American bank; it sounds impressive, but they are ten-a-penny, and the title means relatively little.

Here are the names in full.

Chris Skidmore - vice chairman for policy

Skidmore, at least until today, was minister for the constitution in the Cabinet Office. It is not clear yet whether this CCHQ appointment means he has been sacked from government.

Kemi Badenoch - vice chairman for candidates

Ben Bradley - vice chairman for youth

Bradley is 28, which helps to explain why he’s qualified for this post.

Maria Caulfield - vice chairman for women

Rehman Chishti and Helen Grant - vice chairmen for communities

Andrew Jones - vice chairman for business engagement

Jones was a Treasury minister until this morning. As with Skidmore, it is not clear yet if this appointment means he has left the government

Marcus Jones - vice chairman for local government

And this Jones was a local government minister until today. Perhaps he still is. Or perhaps he’s been sacked.

James Morris - vice chairman for training and development

James Cleverly appointed Conservative party deputy chairman

The Conservative Party has confirmed that James Cleverly has been made deputy chairman.

Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, has issued this tribute to James Brokenshire, who has resigned as Northern Ireland secretary for health reasons. She said:

This is clearly a difficult time for not only James but for Cathy, his wife and his children. I send my best wishes to him and the entire Brokenshire family. I trust James will have the surgery he needs and will make a full recovery.

Since becoming secretary of state in 2016, Mr Brokenshire had immersed himself fully in the role by dedicating long hours to trying to make progress.

James leaves the role with a very intimate knowledge of Northern Ireland and I look forward to working with him again in the future.

There’s been another reshuffle Twitter error, my colleague Peter Walker reports.

While we wait for some more actual facts, here are some tweets about other reshuffle cock-ups.

From the Guardian’s Gaby Hinsliff

Gaby is referring to the leftwing Labour MP Brian Donohoe, who was contacted by the Number 10 switchboard when Tony Blair wanted to offer a job to Bernard Donoughue. Apparently Blair got put through to Donohoe but quickly terminated the call when he realised he was about to offer a job to the wrong man.

The Conservative Ed Vaizey says he had a similar experience.

And the Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges has another example.

Brandon Lewis appointed Conservative party chairman

The Downing Street Twitter account has made its first reshuffle announcement. It has confirmed that the immigration minister Brandon Lewis has become Conservative party chairman.

Nigel Farage has welcomed the prospect of a minister for a no-deal Brexit (see 11.23am), while accusing the government of ignoring the issue of immigration in negotiations with the European Union.

Speaking to reporters in Brussels, following a 30-minute meeting with the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, Farage said:

It is a very good thing that there is going to be a minister for no-deal. It does at least show that Theresa May is prepared to walk away. And I think that is because she has been getting these under-the-radar voices for business saying we can’t spend years trying to get somewhere if it is frankly going to be unachievable.

The Ukip MEP’s contention that business is prepared to accept no-deal is starkly at odds with Britain’s biggest business group, the Confederation for British Industry, which has been urging the government to agree transition arrangements and warned that no-deal would cost jobs. But there are pro-Brexit business voices outside the CBI.

The Ukip MEP had requested the meeting, after a trio of remain-supporting ex-ministers, Lord Adonis, Nick Clegg and Ken Clarke, met Barnier last October.

Farage said the meeting was “very civil”. Coffee was offered, but there was no exchange of gifts. (Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave Barnier an Arsenal shirt, while the Brexit secretary David Davis presented him with a book about a mountaineering expedition that went badly wrong.)

To no one’s surprise, there wasn’t a meeting of minds between the European commissioner and lifelong Eurosceptic. Farage said Barnier doesn’t understand why people voted for Brexit.

I really don’t think he gets it. And when I suggested to him that it might be something to do with open door immigration within the European Union, he almost looked at me with incredulity.

He also accused the government of not prioritising immigration in the negotiations, underlining his attempt to position himself as the voice of leave voters and force the debate away from the economy.

[Theresa May] says she is the Brexit prime minister. She fought the general election on that basis and we find she is the Brexit prime minister, apart from one issue, called immigration, which she hasn’t event talked about.

The commission has so far declined to comment, beyond noting: “The two men discussed the state of play of article 50 negotiations.”

Updated

James Cleverly arriving at No 10.
James Cleverly arriving at No 10. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Here’s Rupert Harrison, who was chief of staff to George Osborne, on the reshuffle.

We’ve got two urgent questions in the Commons this afternoon.

But we don’t know if Jeremy Hunt or Justine Greening will still be in post this afternoon. Both UQs may well be answered by junior ministers ...

Turning to Brexit for a moment, the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has been tweeting about his meeting with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator.

And here is the text of May’s response to Brokenshire.

In it, May suggests that Brokenshire could be offered another government job when he recovers. She says:

I very much look forward to working alongside you again when you are back to full health.

May’s letter to Brokenshire.
May’s letter to Brokenshire. Photograph: No 10

Here is the text of James Brokenshire’s resignation letter.

Patrick McLoughlin confirms he has quit as Conservative chairman

Sir Patrick McLoughlin, the outgoing Conservative party chairman, has confirmed that he has left the cabinet. Speaking to Sky News, he said that he had been in cabinet for eight years and that he had had “a very good run”.

Sky’s Beth Rigby says McLoughlin told May in the autumn that he wanted to stand down, but that he was asked to stay on until the reshuffle.

James Cleverly, a backbencher, is going to get the deputy post at CCHQ, the Spectator’s James Forsyth and the Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner report.

James Cleverly.
James Cleverly. Photograph: Sky News

This is from the BBC’s Denis Doherty.

Christopher Hope, who wrote the Telegraph splash about May appointing a minister for a no deal Brexit (see 11.23am), reports the job could go to a remainer, and not Steve Baker.

Brandon Lewis 'to be Conservative party chairman'

This is from the Sun’s Harry Cole.

Updated

Brandon Lewis, the immigration minister, arriving at Number 10 to meet Theresa May
Brandon Lewis, the immigration minister, arriving at Number 10 to meet Theresa May Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters

The Times’ Sam Coates says a CCHQ official was to blame for the Grayling error.

Updated

Brandon Lewis, the immigration minister, has arrived at Number 10. He is now being tipped for Conservative chairman.

Sky’s Faisal Islam is speculating that Chris Grayling could turn out to be the shortest-lived Conservative party chairman of all time.

This is from the Spectator’s James Forsyth.

If, on reshuffle day, it gets reported that X has got a particular job and then it ends up going to Y, that may because the reshuffle has gone wrong and there has been a last-minute change of heart. But equally it might just be because a reporter or a news organisation made a mistake.

The danger for Number 10, as Forsyth points out, is that news organisations are reluctant to admit that they have got it wrong, and the cock-up narrative is much more attractive.

And this is from the Times’ Sam Coates.

The Chris Grayling announcement may be premature, it has now emerged.

More on James Brokenshire. These are from two Northern Ireland journalists.

According to the Times’s Sam Coates, the Conservative party has just deleted a tweet announcing Chris Grayling’s appointment as party chairman.

This is from the BBC’s Iain Watson.

Updated

The Press Association has more on James Brokenshire’s illness.

This is from the Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner.

James Brokenshire’s resignation has not been officially announced yet, but Sky News says the story has been confirmed.

This is from the Spectator’s James Forsyth.

James Brokenshire resigns as Northern Ireland secretary for health reasons

This is from the Sun’s Harry Cole. He says James Brokenshire is resigning as Northern Ireland secretary because of ill health.

Updated

These are from my colleague Jennifer Rankin on Nigel Farage’s meeting with Michel Barnier.

Farage was referring to today’s Daily Telegraph splash, which starts:

A “cabinet minister for no deal” is to be appointed by Theresa May as part of the reshuffle of her top team which begins on Monday, the Telegraph can reveal.

A close reading of the Telegraph story shows that the proposal it is reporting is for Steve Baker, the Brexit minister already in charge of cross-Whitehall preparations for Brexit, to have his role beefed up, so that he would attend cabinet. But he would not actually be a cabinet minister. Government sources have not confirmed or denied the story.

Brexiters would welcome the idea of a minister for a no deal Brexit because most of them believe that the UK has to show it is prepared to walk way without a deal to force the EU to offer it a generous trade deal.

But Sir Vince Cable, the Lib Dem leader, thinks this shows how far the Tories are moving to the right. In a reference to the Telegraph splash, he said:

The government should not even be considering leaving the EU with no deal - that is the worst of all possible options. However, this shows the journey the Conservatives are taking, steering the country further and further into a highly damaging hard Brexit.

The prime minister should be negotiating Brexit on what are the best terms for Britain, not on what might temporarily salve ideological arguments in her deeply divided party. For the good of our economic future, a no deal Brexit must be ruled out immediately.

We’re going to get the first reshuffle names imminently, but they will be new appointments at Conservative party headquarters. Cabinet appointments will follow after that.

And the PM is planning to see all ministers who are staying and all new ministers, we’re told.

Updated

By the end of the day we will know the facts about the reshuffle, but for the moment all we’ve got is speculation of sorts, some of which will turn out to be well-founded - and some won’t. Here’s the latest from the Sunday Times’ Tim Shipman.

It is worth pointing that we’re still quite early in the day, and reshuffles can unravel. There will be a white board in Number 10 with various names pencilled in for various posts. But if one minister refuses a particular job unexpectedly, then the entire plan may need a rethink.

Theresa May arriving at Downing Street ahead of the reshuffle this morning.
Theresa May arriving at Downing Street ahead of the reshuffle this morning.
 Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

ITV’s political editor Robert Peston has written an interesting blog on the reshuffle. Here’s an extract.

Justine Greening seems to be dead minister walking at the Department for Education.

Her crimes?

“Senior backbench MPs are still fuming at the way she killed the plan to open new grammar schools” said one of her colleagues. “And my goodness she goes on and on at cabinet. The annoyance on the prime minister’s face when Justine won’t stop talking is quite a picture”.

Greg Clark, the business secretary, looks to be on his way out – because “he’s too secretive and is said to be a ditherer”, said a source.

The party chairman, Patrick McLoughlin, will be axed – because if the prime minister hasn’t taken personal responsibility for the Tories’ lacklustre performance in last year’s election, he’ll be forced to do so.

Also Andrea Leadsom is expected to be replaced as leader of the House of Commons: she attracts too much attention for the prime minister’s taste, and often for the wrong reasons, said one of their colleagues.

And the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has written a good blog too on reshuffles generally. Here’s an excerpt.

There is not necessarily a direct relationship between successful reshuffles and prime ministerial authority. Strong leaders have botched them sometimes. But clever reshuffles can embolden weak prime ministers.

According to Sky’s Beth Rigby, ministers being sacked won’t have to do the “walk of shame” up Downing Street (see 8.58am) after all.

Theresa May has just arrived back in Downing Street from her Maidenhead constituency, the BBC is reporting.

The wikipedia page of Anne Milton, tipped as possible incoming health secretary, has just been edited from somewhere on the parliamentary estate, according to this Twitter bot, which tracks wiki edits made from the parliamentary estate.

Milton has already faced questions on social media about her husband’s role with Virgin Care. The page did say that Dr Graham Henderson holds a high level position with the private healthcare company, but as of 9.10am this morning, now says he “previously served” as one. Fancy that.

UPDATE: Blimey - someone is not quite there with technology this morning. Since a 9.10am edit from within the parliamentary estate, there has been another edit on the Anne Milton wiki page (from outside parliament) reappointing her husband to serving at Virgin Care again.

(And someone - in between - also said that she was appointed as first secretary of state on 8 Jan, before deleting that, although that seems to be from outside parliament).

Updated

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said that leaving the EU with no deal would be “unthinkable”, and again insisted that the UK should be seeking the softest possible Brexit deal.

In her first broadcast interview of 2018, Sturgeon told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme stressed she believed there was no option facing the UK which would be economically more beneficial that remaining the EU. But she had to be pragmatic. She said:

There is no doubt at all that staying in the single market, staying in the customs union – they’re not the best outcomes, staying in the EU is, in my view the best outcome – but it’s the least damaging outcome.

I think 2018 has to be the year where we say jobs, the economy, the protections that come from EU membership, like workers rights, consumers rights, really come to the fore and the hardline Tory Brexiteers sidelined rather than given greater precedence.

But Sturgeon was unable to offer any clearer insight into her strategy on Brexit this year, her plans for a second independence referendum or whether she backed a new referendum on the Brexit deal. A Queens university study last week said 87% of SNP voters wanted a vote on the deal, but Sturgeon repeated her previous stance that the case for that confirmatory vote “could become irresistible”.

She said the full impacts of the various scenarios on the UK’s economy, such as a soft Brexit, a so-called “Canada-plus” free trade deal or no deal at all, would be spelt out in a Scottish government report later this month.

This is from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.

These are from ITV’s Paul Brand.

(If every cabinet minister is getting a performance review, it’s going to take hours.)

Here are tweets from the BBC’s Adam Fleming and Rob Watts about Nigel Farage, who is meeting Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, about now.

With Farage in Brussels, I suppose at least we can rule him out for the first secretary of state job ...

What do reshuffles achieve?

Writing about reshuffles in his memoirs, Tony Blair said: “Here’s some advice: you should always promote or demote for a purpose, not for effect.” He says this in a paragraph describing the 2006 reshuffle, in which he - rather pointlessly, he now admits - replaced Jack Straw as foreign secretary with Margaret Beckett. Blair says overall that reshuffle was a failure; “it did little for the government and harm to me.”

There is a casual assumption that, with a bold reshuffle, a prime minister can somehow boost the fortunes of a government. In crude terms, that’s not the case. There may be some examples of a government receiving an obvious bounce in the opinion polls, or in electoral contests, as a direct result of a reshuffle, but I can’t think of one.

But reshuffles do make a difference in other way. Here are three effects that can be broadly positive.

1 - Reshuffles create future leaders. In theory anyone can stand for the leadership of their party (and even win, as Jeremy Corbyn proved) but in practice most leadership contests are won by someone with a high-profile cabinet-level job. By tonight there will be some people “in play” for a future leader contest who aren’t in play at the moment. And the reshuffle of junior ranks, expected tomorrow, will for some MPs start a career rise that will at some point in the future also make them future leadership candidates.

2 - Reshuffles create new policy opportunities. In theory a prime minister should be able to determine what a government does. But most executive powers in government reside with secretaries of state, not the prime minister (the article 50 bill was a rare example of legislation giving a specific power to the prime minister) and even strong prime ministers find it hard to push through reform if departmental ministers are not in favour. This seems to be why Justine Greening is set to be replaced as education secretary. (She is “slowing down successful policies she inherited”, Nick Timothy, May’s former co chief of staff, wrote in a damning column in the Sun last month.)

3 - Reshuffles can change the personality of a government (a bit). In recent years all prime ministers, Labour and Tory, have been keen to use reshuffles to make their administrations more diverse, particularly more female and less white, and May is no different. Often the overall impact is relatively marginal, but sometimes a reshuffle can make a government look noticeably different. For example, after the cull of Cameroon Etonians in May’s first reshuffle, the Tories did look less posh.

But, as the Blair memoirs show, reshuffles can backfire too - and not just for the obvious reason.

4 - Reshuffles can create problems for prime ministers because of whom they sack. This is the main reason they are so risky. Today’s reshuffle has been described as an opportunity to refresh the government. But it is also an opportunity to refresh the pool of Brexit “mutineeers”, as the Telegraph calls them, because ex-ministers featured prominently in the list of Tories who rebelled over the EU withdrawal bill last month.

5 - But reshuffles can also create problems for prime ministers because of whom they promote. David Cameron’s decision to make Theresa May home secretary in 2010 was a surprise, not least to her. Cameron and George Osborne were not especially close to her, but they recognised her ability and did not want to form a government without a woman in one of the top jobs. Six years later, as May sacked him, Osborne may have reflected that their earlier decision did not turn out quite as planned.

Updated

The Labour whips are expecting a Commons statement on the NHS winter crisis - although they don’t know who will deliver it.

Updated

These are from my colleague Heather Stewart.

This is from the Sun’s Harry Cole.

On the Today programme this morning George Freeman, the Tory MP who until November headed May’s policy unit, called for a significant “freshening and sharpening of the team”to promote younger talent.

“I’m encouraging her to be bold,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “I think the country will reward and enjoy a prime minister determined the make Brexit a moment of inspiring renewal for the next generation.”

More widely, Freeman said, May should oversee “a big shakeup of Conservative headquarters”. He said:

Politics is changing. I think this election showed that our party structure is not fit for winning modern elections. We don’t just need to repair it, I think we need to be really bold and set out what a 21st century Conservative party looks like.

Sky News doorstepped Justine Greening, who is expected to lose her post as education secretary, as she left her home this morning. Greening said good morning to the reporter but after that ignored repeated questions about whether she expected to be in her post by the end of the day as she got into her car.

Justine Greening.
Justine Greening. Photograph: Sky News

Sky has also broadast some footage of Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, leaving home. He sounded a bit more cheerful about his prospects and was smiling. Asked if he expected to keep his job, he said these things were always in the gift of the prime minister.

Chris Grayling.
Chris Grayling. Photograph: Sky News

On the Today programme Tim Shipman, the Sunday Times political editor, has just said that ministers facing the sack will be summoned to Downing Street where they will have to walk past the cameras before they go through the door. This hasn’t happened for a while; in recent years, to avoid publicly humiliating the reshuffle losers, prime ministers have tended to meet people they are sacking (when they do meet them face to face) in their office in the Commons, where MPs can come and go without reporters seeing.

Shipman also said there would be an extensive shake-up at Conservative HQ, going well beyond the appointment of a new party chairman.

These are from the Times’ Matt Chorley.

(I think he means stiff - unless he is talking about a cocktail.)

Michael Howard, the former Conservative leader, told the Today programme this morning that he hoped Theresa May would use the reshuffle to promote new talent in the Conservative party. He said:

The challenge facing the prime minister today, what she will want to do is to give fresh impetus to the government and there is an array of talent on the back benches, and in junior ministerial position ...

There really is, particularly but not exclusively those who have entered parliament relatively recently and I hope and I believe that the prime minister will seize this opportunity to give some of those people a chance to show what they can do.

We’ve got a cabinet reshuffle today. Here’s our overnight preview.

And here is my colleague Anushka Asthana’s analysis.

We expected the first announcements to start coming at around lunchtime.

I will be focusing on the reshuffle, but I will be keeping an eye on the other politics too. Here is the agenda for the day.

10am: Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader, is meeting Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, in Brussels.

2.30pm: Amber Rudd, the home secretary, takes questions in the Commons.

3.30pm: MPs start debating the second reading of the taxation (cross-border trade) bill.

You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.

Here is the Politico Europe round-up of this morning’s political news from Jack Blanchard. And here is the PoliticsHome list of today’ top 10 must reads.

If you want to follow me or contact me on Twitter, I’m on @AndrewSparrow.

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If you want to attract my attention quickly, it is probably better to use Twitter.

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