Boris Johnson news - live: Williamson, Raab and Patel return to government as new PM continues biggest cabinet reshuffle in modern history
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Your support makes all the difference.Boris Johnson has carried out the most brutal cabinet reshuffle in modern history as he sacked more than half of Theresa May's top team within hours of taking charge.
Allies of Ms May were unceremoniously cleared out, with rival Jeremy Hunt was among the senior figures to leave the government in favour of Brexiteers.
Sajid Javid was appointed as chancellor, with Brexiteers Priti Patel and Dominic Raab returning to the cabinet as home secretary and foreign secretary.
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CABINET UPDATE:
Chancellor Philip Hammond (resigned)
Deputy PM David Lidington (resigned)
Transport secretary Chris Grayling (resigned)
Dfid secretary Rory Stewart (resigned)
Business secretary Greg Clark (sacked)
Housing and Communities secretary James Brokenshire (sacked)
Education secretary Damian Hinds (sacked)
Defence secretary Penny Mordaunt (sacked)
Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley (sacked)
International trade secretary Liam Fox (sacked)
Justice secretary David Gauke (resigned)
Scottish secretary David Mundell (sacked)
Culture secretary Jeremy Wright (sacked)
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt (resigned)
Commons leader Mel Stride (sacked)
Chief whip Julian Smith
Immigration minister Caroline Nokes, who attends cabinet, has also been sacked, finding out her fate from a Daily Mail journalist. Claire Perry has relinquished her position of Clean Growth and Energy Minister, in order to chair UN climate talks.
Boris Johnson's reshuffle is shaping up to be the most brutal without a change of party in No 10. Hardly any May era ministers remain.
Our first appointment - Sajid Javid is chancellor. It's a promotion for the home secretary, who stood against Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership contest.
He becomes the first chancellor from an ethnic minority background - and will be a popular choice amongst Tory MPs.
Priti Patel has been named as the home secretary, in a major promotion.
She was enjoyed a spell on the backbenches after being sacked as international development secretary for conducting meetings with Israeli officials while on holiday.
Brexiteer Dominic Raab has been named as foreign secretary.Raab is also First Secretary of State - which is effectively a deputy to the PM
Steven Barclay becomes the first minister to keep his job, staying on as Brexit Secretary.
Sajid Javid self-identifies as the son of a bus driver, whose father arrived in England from Pakistan in the 1960s with just a pound in his pocket.
To colleagues, he is The Saj - the tough talking home secretary whose hard stance on jihadi bride Shamima Begum's pleas to be allowed back in the UK boosted his popularity among some Tories, but horrified others - particularly after Begum's newborn son later died in a Syrian refugee camp.
The Bromsgrove MP made it to the final four in the leadership race and subsequently endorsed Mr Johnson.
His background as a managing director of Deutsche Bank was seen as part of his credentials for No 11.
One of the big ticket announcements - Priti Patel named as home secretary.
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