Thérèse Coffey becomes work and pensions secretary after Amber Rudd resigns

After being reappointed to the post in July, during Johnson's post-election reshuffle, Rudd leaves the office after 296 days in office. Coffey joins the Department for Work and Pensions after three years at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, where she had been a junior minister for environment and rural opportunity. Becoming the seventh work and pensions secretary since the 2015 general election, she has also been Conservative MP for Suffolk Costal since 2010, and has a 16,000-vote majority. Rudd has also resigned the Conservative party whip, with plans to stand ...