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Theresa May Prepares to Meet Her New Cabinet This Morning, Including Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt Secretary of Health Matt Hancock Secretary of Culture Jeremy Wright and new Attorney General Geoffrey Cox who will be present at the cabinet.

Three of them were publicly expansive on the Checkers agreement, agreed at the cabinet summit last Friday, suggesting that he has not yet died despite resignations from David Davis and Boris Johnson, plus a number of other junior ministers. ] Hunt was on the air yesterday defending the deal immediately after Davis' resignation, Hancock was publicly in favor and a few hours before his promotion, the Brexiter Cox made a noisy speech to the 1922 committee of MPs. backbencher on al's reason was a "radical step" in resuming control of the British law.

Absent from the airwaves – until now – is Boris Johnson although he has invited a professional photographer to capture him by signing his resignation letter.

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We all know that Boris Johnson's decision to resign does not concern a man and his personal ambitions, but I struggle to think of another era when a secretary State called the photographers to record the moment a letter of resignation was signed. https://t.co/35FEuuh9dV

July 9, 2018

Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, is on Today and I will bring these comments to you shortly. The cabinet minister who is sent today by number 10 is David Gauke another May Loyalist and a mild Brexiter, who will be on the Today program later.

All eyes are now on the reaction of L & # 39; Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in London for the second day of the Western Balkans summit – the one at which Johnson never showed up because he was about to quit his job.

Later in the day, there will be a joint press conference with May, Merkel and other European leaders.

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