James Brokenshire and Robert Jenrick
James Brokenshire has been ousted as homes and communities secretary as incoming prime minister Boris Johnson purged the cabinet and installed a host of new faces.
Brokenshire has been replaced by former treasury minister Robert Jenrick, MP for Newark.
He takes over responsibility for overseeing a host of construction-related areas at the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), including the department’s Building Safety Programme, established to ensure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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