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Downing Street has announced a series of ministerial appointments following changes in the Government after the resignation of John Healey as Defence Secretary. The Prime Minister’s Office said the King had approved the appointments on 12 June.
Dame Angela Eagle has been appointed Minister of State as Security Minister, jointly in the Home Office and the Cabinet Office. Stephen Morgan has been appointed Minister of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, while Calvin Bailey has become a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defence.
Other appointments include Jade Botterill as a Junior Lord of the Treasury, Emma Foody as an Assistant Whip and Lord Leong as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Business and Trade. The Prime Minister has also appointed Sir Alan Campbell, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, to the Cabinet.