Article 5PJFD Liz Truss takes over as foreign secretary after Dominic Raab demoted

Liz Truss takes over as foreign secretary after Dominic Raab demoted

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Education secretary Gavin Williamson also sacked in reshuffle, along with justice and communities secretaries

Liz Truss is the UK's new foreign secretary - the first woman to hold the post in more than a decade - after Boris Johnson demoted Dominic Raab to justice secretary in the wake of the Afghanistan crisis.

Truss, a free marketer beloved of Conservative members, had been international trade secretary since 2019.

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