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11.34am BST

The Sutton Trust, which campaigns for social mobility through education, has published an analysis of the educational backgrounds of the new cabinet and it shows a minor move away from the traditional independent school/Oxbridge pipeline. Here are the key figures.

11.22am BST

The Boris Johnson statement is now over. For a prime ministerial statement, it was over very quickly, but that is because most MPs had little notice that it was coming and many are not in London on a Thursday. Johnson presented it as a jobs announcement almost as much as a foreign policy initiative, and broadly it was welcomed.

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