Who is expected to be in Liz Truss' new Cabinet?

As the newly-elected Conservative party leader - and Prime Minister - Liz Truss will have a busy afternoon finalising her choices for Cabinet and wider ministerial roles. The current foreign secretary was announced as the new PM on Monday (September 5) at the QEII Conference Centre in central London.

Thousands of Tory party members cast their votes before the deadline on Friday. Truss won with 81,326 votes from the Tory membership, to Rishi Sunak’s 60,399.

While it may be tempting to appoint a stream of loyalists to get her premiership off the ground, Truss will be acutely aware of the need to heal the fissures ripped though the Tory party by the summer’s bitter leadership contest.

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Veteran Westminster watchers have started to speculate about who will take the top spots in her Cabinet, with Kwasi Kwarteng thought to be in line for Chancellor and James Cleverly for Foreign Secretary. But it is never guaranteed who will make it to the room where it happens until someone signs off on that all-important announcement from No 10, either vindicating or quashing the rumours.

With that caveat firmly in mind, some have begun to sketch an outline of who could be chosen for Ms Truss’s top team. According to PA news agency, here's how the new Cabinet could shape up...

The Business Secretary is widely expected to take Nadhim Zahawi’s place as Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the daunting brief of steering the country through an increasingly dire cost-of-living crisis.

A vocal supporter of Ms Truss, James Cleverly is currently Education Secretary. He was previously a minister in the Foreign Office.

The Attorney General is tipped