Kit Malthouse

Now we have the territorial appointments. Allister Jack is back at Scotland, having kept his powder dry during the leadership election. He entered Cabinet in ...

[Grant Shapps](https://twitter.com/grantshapps/status/1567195630149242880). She has gone for one of them: [Wendy Morton](https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1567219387739799555)– active in the Truss campaign, a former Chair of the Richmond Association in Yorkshire, pipped for the seat in 2015 by an outsider to the country, Rishi Sunak. [I wrote](https://conservativehome.com/2022/08/23/trusss-reshuffle-at-the-heart-of-her-campaign-is-a-plan-to-go-for-growth-if-this-leadership-election-is-to-mean-anything-her-treasury-team-must-be-fully-signed-up-to-it/)that if Truss “is looking for a change of style and a woman Chief Whip who backed her from the start, there are a mass of female former or present whips among her supporters”. [Northern Ireland](https://twitter.com/AnushkaAsthana/status/1567114178749497345). Her appointment is a sign of the priority that Truss will give to sorting the NHS admission backlogs and seeking to avert a winter crisis. [the star of our Moggcast](https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1567246449007542272)goes to Business (despite having told me [during its most recent episode](https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/12/the-moggcast-rees-mogg-says-that-johnson-should-have-the-opportunity-to-stand-again-for-the-leadership-if-he-wishes/)that he had done has last job in Government). Zahawi will presumably have to make the new slimmed-down Number Ten work, oversee the scrapping of Johnson’s planned Prime Minister’s department, and run an operation traumatised by the [planned merging](https://twitter.com/nmdacosta/status/1567055706016071685)of the Policy Unit, Legislative Affairs, Delivery Unit and Data Science with the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat. He first got round the Cabinet table in July 2019, and [his own leadership ambitions](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9165457/kit-malthouse-tory-leadership-announcement/)may not be spent. [on this site](https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/13/michelle-donelan-why-i-stepped-up-to-serve-as-education-secretary-and-why-i-stepped-straight-down-again/)of why she – a Minister on the edge of Cabinet – resigned from Boris Johnson’s Government in July. But she [wrote](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11097171/We-need-leader-bold-vision-like-Liz-Truss-writes-former-Tory-minister-MICHELLE-DONELAN.html)an emphatic endorsement of Truss in the Daily Mail during the leadership election, and had developed a bit of a reputation as a culture warrior. This must change,” [she wrote on ConHome](https://conservativehome.com/2022/04/28/michelle-donelan-diversity-of-opinion-is-as-important-as-diversity-of-background/). He has a reputation as an able Minister and goes to the Cabinet Office to support Zahawi.

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Kit Malthouse, has been appointed education secretary by new prime minister Liz Truss.

He became chief executive of Alpha Strategic and chair of County Holdings during the 2000s. [Donelan resigned less than two days into the job](https://feweek.co.uk/education-secretary-michelle-donelan-resigns-after-less-than-two-days/), with Johnson [appointing Braintree MP James Cleverly to the role](https://feweek.co.uk/james-cleverly-becomes-third-education-secretary-in-two-days/) in his reshuffle. The appointment marks the fourth education secretary since July, the fifth in a year and the ninth since the Conservatives took office in 2010. [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster](https://www.gov.uk/government/people/kit-malthouse) in the cabinet since July 7 following prime minister Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. [Malthouse](https://feweek.co.uk/kit-malthouse-12-facts-about-the-new-education-secretary/) had qualified as a chartered accountant in the mid-1990s, before holding a finance director role at Cannock Investments Group. Kit Malthouse has been appointed education secretary by new prime minister Liz Truss, becoming the fourth person to hold the role in just over two months.

Downing Street has announced that Kit Malthouse is the new education secretary following a reshuffle by the new prime minister Liz Truss.

- He is the fourth education secretary in just over two months, and the fifth in the past year. - He was elected to Westminster Council in 1998 and became its deputy leader, standing down in 2006. - During his time as policing minister, Malthouse said he believed schools should teach boys how to treat women and girls with respect. - After graduation, Malthouse moved to London and qualified as a chartered accountant, working for Deloitte and Touche. - Like his recent predecessors Michelle Donelan and James Cleverly, Malthouse was first elected in 2015. This is older than the average for education secretaries, but he is a long way off being the oldest.

ANDOVER'S MP has been appointed as the next education secretary by new Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Kit Malthouse, MP for North West Hampshire, was given the position as the PM appointed her new cabinet on Tuesday, September 6. He said: "Many congratulations to Liz Truss on becoming the new leader of the Conservative Party. Earlier this week the MP congratulated Ms Truss on her election as the new Conservative Party leader and becoming PM.

With the appointment of Kit Malthouse as the new education secretary, Sam Freedman wonders if the sector should be concerned about the PM's priorities.

As a new school year starts, the issue that will be top of mind for most leaders is money. Peers forced the removal of the key clauses that would have allowed the DfE to regulate academy trusts directly. That will offer a lot of relief. He certainly has a long list of problems to sort. The last secretary of state who seemed to genuinely care about the topic was Justine Greening, and there have been six others since then. Now, of course, there are plenty of other problems around at the moment.

The MP for North West Hampshire replaces James Cleverly who has been promoted to Foreign Secretary by the new prime minister.

He was subsequently deputy mayor for business and enterprise from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that Nadhim Zahawi was in post, and before that Gavin Williamson who was sacked last September. Before that he was minister for housing between 2018 and 2019.

One midlands TD says Northern Ireland is clearly not a priority. There's been a big shake-up of the top UK government jobs as Liz Truss appoints her Cabinet ...