Boris Johnson undertakes a major reshuffle of his government ministers
Liz Truss is the new foreign secretary, replacing Dominic Raab
Raab is confirmed in three roles - justice secretary, Lord Chancellor and deputy prime minister
Former vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi is the new education secretary
He replaces Gavin Williamson - who was the first to be sacked from his post in these moves
Nadine Dorries is secretary of state for culture, media and sport
She replaces Oliver Dowden, who moves to the Cabinet Office
Michael Gove is the new minister for housing, communities and local government and has responsibility for the UK's union
Steve Barclay replaces Gove as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Cabinet Office minister
Anne-Marie Trevelyan is international trade secretary
Robert Buckland is sacked as justice secretary; Robert Jenrick as communities secretary
Amanda Milling is no longer Conservative Party co-chair
Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor
There's still no news from Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab's team and no resolution to his talks with the PM.
On a day like this, the implication is that things are not entirely well, and he doesn't want to take whatever he's being offered instead of the Foreign Office.
Image source, Getty ImagesRobert Jenrick has confirmed that he has been sacked as housing secretary.
He tweeted that it has been a "huge privilege" to serve at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.
"I’m deeply proud of all we achieved. I will continue to support the prime minister and the government in every way I can," he added.
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Our political correspondent is over in the House of Commons
Pete Saull
Political Correspondent, BBC Westminster
I just bumped into the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who seems mildly amused by the clusters of journalists hanging around Parliament’s corridors trying to catch a glimpse of ministers heading to Boris Johnson’s office there.
“Any white smoke?” he asks.
Image source, Getty ImagesRobert Buckland has been sacked as justice secretary.
He has just tweeted: "It has been an honour to serve in government for the last 7 years, and as the Lord Chancellor for the last two.
"I am deeply proud of everything I have achieved. On to the next adventure."
Our correspondents have seen lots of movement around the Palace of Westminster.
Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has been seen in the corridor outside the PM’s office looking a bit glum.
And Conservative Party co-Chair Amanda Milling is rumoured to be in the PM's office now.
Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent
All the earlier speculation about his career appears to have been confirmed by Gavin Williamson himself.
He has had quite a rough ride as education secretary and he has been the lightning rod for a lot of criticism.
Think back to last summer - the English exams and the use of an algorithm which caused all sorts of problems with the results.
And earlier this year children went back to school for one day before schools were closed again due to Covid.
All of that has seen Williamson's role questioned.
It is not yet clear where he might go next.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has tweeted the below, but it is not 100% clear from the tweet if he is going...
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Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor
Image source, ReutersAmanda Milling leaving No 10 on Tuesday
We're in the early stages of reshuffle, where rumours abound. The prime minister is apparently in the tearoom in the House of Commons.
Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick have been spotted going into the PM's parliamentary office.
There's a lot of expectation that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will be moved.
But it may be a while before we know much for sure.
Image source, ReutersRobert Jenrick arriving in Downing Street for the cabinet meeting on Tuesday
Reality Check
Earlier at PMQs, the Labour leader Keir Starmer asked the prime minister about the ending of the £20 a week “uplift” to universal credit (UC).
“A single parent working on minimum wage, already working full-time, would need to work over nine hours a week just to get the money back,” he claimed.
This calculation was originally done by the Resolution Foundation.
The National Living Wage for those over 23 is £8.91 an hour.
Income tax would take off £1.78 of that, and National Insurance another £1.07.
This worker would almost certainly already have earned an amount greater than what is called the in-work allowance, which would mean that extra earnings lead to a reduction in their UC, taking another £3.82.
That takes the total to £2.24, meaning somebody would have to work about nine hours to take home £20.
Responding to the analysis, the government said: “Many claimants are eligible for an in-work allowance, which means [they]… keep more of what they earn.
"For the lowest earners, working two hours more per week at National Living Wage can add up to around £20.”
The government is talking about a claimant who is eligible for an in-work allowance but has not used it all, whereas Sir Keir was talking about a full-time worker, who almost certainly would have used it all.
Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is on his way to see the prime minister.
He was earlier spotted leaving the Foreign Office by car.
Image source, EPARumours are abound that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will be removed from his job in this afternoon's shake-up - including talk that he may have already given his leaving speech to his department.
A source at the DfE has told us there has been no official speech as of yet.
But they did say the minister may already have cleared out his office.
We'll have to wait to see if his suggested preparations are correct...
Adam Fleming
Chief political correspondent
I've been told the reshuffle will continue into tomorrow - so we've got two days of this.
We can expect to see people appearing in Downing Street - in other words getting promotions - from this afternoon.
Firings will be done in the PM's office in the Palace of Westminster - out of the public eye.
There is already speculation about who will go.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab came in for quite a lot of criticism over the evacuation of Afghanistan.
Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused and found guilty of bullying her staff. She has also been criticised for not gripping the situation with migrants.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is hotly tipped to be leaving. He seems to get negative headlines every week.
There are also many rumours about Michael Gove.
Why does this matter? Because new people bring new ideas to old departments.
New people also bring potential new conflict for the prime minister.
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Image source, ReutersSajid Javid returned to the cabinet as health secretary in June this year
Boris Johnson carried out the first significant reshuffle of his premiership in February last year, shortly after he won the December 2019 election and officially took the UK out the EU.
Taking place on 13 and 14 February, it was dubbed the “Valentine's Day Massacre” in sections of the press – a reference to the famous 1929 gangland shooting in Chicago.
In total, five cabinet ministers were given the boot – including Julian Smith, whose sacking as Northern Ireland secretary was widely criticised in Westminster.
The main surprise though was Sajid Javid, whose shock resignation as chancellor paved the way for Rishi Sunak’s rapid promotion to the top of the Treasury.
Javid had been ordered by the prime minister to fire his team of aides, something he refused to do, adding that "no self-respecting minister" could accept this.
With Javid now back as health secretary, we'd expect his place at the cabinet table is among the safest ones today.
Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent
“Panto season has come early” the prime minister joked provoking laughter from his MPs and even a smile from Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour front bench.
But the issue the two leaders spent all of PMQs sparring over - tax and benefits - is of the utmost seriousness for millions of people on lower incomes, and it’s one that is likely to define differences between the parties for some time.
Sir Keir had just said nurses, teaching assistants and supermarket workers face losing a thousand pound a year because of the government’s policies and listed: “taxes on working people”, “up” shouted Labour MPs, “National Insurance” Sir Keir said, “up" shouted Labour MPs.
And he went on: “energy bills, council tax, food bills”, “up, up, up,” said his MPs.
The prime minister countered that he was the one with the plan, overseeing high growth, a plan for jobs, wage increases and NHS pay and investment rises.
But who will better protect the interests of working people? It’s the ground both will fight over.
Image source, ReutersWho might we see walking up to the famous door of No 10 to see the PM this afternoon?
PMQs is now over and Westminster will now focus its gaze firmly who will be on the government front bench in the Commons this time next week.
As we mentioned earlier, Downing Street has confirmed that a reshuffle will take place today.
Here is the statement from a No10 source in full:
"The PM will today conduct a reshuffle to put in place a strong and united team to Build Back Better from the pandemic.
"Yesterday the PM set out his plan for managing Covid during the autumn and winter.
"But the government must also redouble our efforts to deliver on the people’s priorities.
"The PM will be appointing ministers this afternoon with a focus on uniting and levelling up the whole country."
Image source, HoCLabour MP Sarah Jones has the final question to the PM and raises the case of her constituents who live in flats with dangerous cladding. She says it will will cost them millions to remove as they are not eligible for the government's Building Safety Fund because it is the "wrong type of cladding".
She asked the PM if they will have to pay £23,000 each to remove the cladding or asks "does he have a plan".
The PM says if they are being told they do not have to remove the cladding the answer is "no".
He says "too many buildings have been unnecessarily categorised as dangerous and unsafe".
"Yes we must remove dangerous cladding and we are doing that but people living in flats should have the confidence that they are there safely" he says.
In nuclear week, Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen asks Boris Johnson about support for a zero carbon future.
He praised the role of modular nuclear reactors, and asks about the government's role in rolling out the technology.
Boris Johnson says it was already working with Rolls-Royce and he wants a “fully worked-out plan” from the firm “that we can all get behind”.
Image source, HoCLabour's Barry Gardiner asks the prime minister to bring forward a law to end the controversial practice of "fire and rehire" among private sector employment.
This is when businesses have tried to dismiss some of their workers and hire them back straight away - on worse deals.
Boris Johnson replies that the best example of fire and rehire came after May's election - when Keir Starmer sacked Angela Rayner as the party's chair before then handing her another role.