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...The new prime minister’s chief of staff is expected to be Liam Booth-Smith....
...Likewise Chloe Smith, the 40-year-old MP for Norwich North. The challenge for Sunak is that the MPs in this tribe risk being unbiddable: some have no reason to back his government....
...They include Dominic Raab, the justice secretary; former work and pensions secretary Sir Iain Duncan Smith; Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris; and former home secretary, Priti Patel....
...But Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former cabinet minister and a notable critic of Beijing, said he was “worried” by Sunak’s stance on China and insisted it was a “threat” to the UK....
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...Truss’s team will seek to bring back some former ministers, including ex-work and pensions secretary Duncan Smith who is tipped to become leader of the House of Commons....
...Several longer-serving Tories rejected cabinet jobs, including former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who turned down the post of leader of the House of Commons, and ex-health secretary Sajid Javid,...
...Chloe Smith, the disabilities minister, takes on the work and pensions brief....
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, could make a return to government, while former leadership challenger Kemi Badenoch is expected to get a top senior post....
...In a letter to Hoyle, former Tory party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, ex-children’s minister Tim Loughton, Lord David Alton and Baroness Helena Kennedy called the decision to invite China’s government to...
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...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...Julian Smith, former Conservative chief whip, said the government’s books could not be balanced “on the back of the poorest people in our country”. Truss has promised to protect pensioners....
...Political correspondents Jim Pickard and Sebastian Payne explain who’s who in the new “unity cabinet”....
...Julian Smith, a former Tory chief whip and another Sunak supporter, also said Truss must change course....
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...Meanwhile Dan York-Smith, Treasury director of budget planning, and Clare Lombardelli, chief economic adviser, are both Osborne-era veterans and have been closely involved in the process....
...sebastian.payne@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Conservative party is like an unfashionable store / From Simon Crosby, Aysgarth, N Yorks, UK...
...Julian Smith, former Conservative chief whip, was not alone in fearing that Johnson was entering a dark place....
...Four incumbents have been subsequently challenged: Ted Heath in 1975, Margaret Thatcher in 1989 and 1990, Iain Duncan Smith in 2003 and May in 2018....
...Why Rishi Sunak is struggling to impose his authority Sebastian Payne explains why the new prime minister is already facing multiple challenges to his authority from rebel Conservative MPs....
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