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Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak Confirmed - Sajid Javid is the new Health Secretary

7:51 PM · Jun 26, 2021

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Confirmed - Sajid Javid is the new Health Secretary

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) June 26, 2021

PM appoints former chancellor Sajid Javid as new health secretary

Saturday 26 June 2021 20:16, UK
https://news.sky.com/story/pm-appoints-former-chancellor-sajid-javid-as-new-health-secretary-12342685

Former chancellor Sajid Javid has been appointed health secretary following the resignation of Matt Hancock, Downing Street has said.

The Bromsgrove MP previously served as home secretary from 2018 to 2019 - and then as chancellor until February last year, when he was replaced by Rishi Sunak.

Mr Javid said he'd had "no option" but to resign as chancellor - because Boris Johnson attached conditions to him staying in the role which "no self-respecting minister would accept".

He quit after refusing to sack his aides in a row with the prime minister.

https://news.sky.com/story/pm-appoints-former-chancellor-sajid-javid-as-new-health-secretary-12342685