UK PM Liz Truss picks top team; Indian-origin Suella Braverman is Home Secretary

The leading cabinet lieutenants of Britain's third woman prime minister share her right-wing ideology. They are all also people of colour.

For the first time in UK history, no white men will occupy any of the four "great offices of state": prime minister, Treasury, foreign office and home affairs.

Indian-origin Suella Braverman, who was also in the running to the be the PM in the initial stages, has been appointed the Home Secretary.

Kwasi Kwarteng, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, is UK’s first black finance minister. His parents hail from Ghana.

James Cleverly is UK’s first black Foreign Secretary. His mother is from Sierra Leone and his father a white British.

Wendy Morton, another ally, has been appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and becomes the first Tory female Chief Whip in charge of party discipline.

“We have huge reserves of talent, of energy, and determination,” Truss said in her inaugural address outside 10 Downing Street earlier on Tuesday.

“I am confident that together we can: ride out the storm, we can rebuild our economy, and we can become the modern brilliant Britain that I know we can be. This is our vital mission to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and future generations. I am determined to deliver,” she said.

Truss will carry on with finalising her Cabinet appointments over the course of this week as she prepares for her first Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

(with PTI and AFP inputs)

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