We've had a swathe of new cabinet appointments and even some re-appointments.

But we know there are still some vacancies which still need filling. These include:

• Transport secretary
• Health secretary
• Environment secretary
• Ministers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Levelling up secretary

We'll bring you the latest developments as we get them and you can watch the comings and goings at No 10 live at the top of the page.

Meanwhile, click here for a quick guide to the cabinet and what it does..

Braverman's six day turnaround a likely target for Labourpublished at 17:28 British Summer Time 25 October 2022

17:28 BST 25 October 2022

David Wallace Lockhart
BBC political correspondent

As the old cliché goes - a week is a long time in politics. That’s certainly true for Suella Braverman.

She resigned as home secretary just last week, conceding she’d broken the rules that ministers are expected to follow.

She sent a document about migration to a colleague from her personal email account.

It’s not unusual for ministers who’ve had to step down to come back at some point. But six days is exceptionally quick.

This return to the same top job, so soon after breaching the rules, is likely to be an issue opposition parties will want to pursue.

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Penny Mordaunt has been re-appointed as leader of the House of Commons by her former leadership rival Rishi Sunak.

She will also assume the role of Lord President of the Council again, as the presiding officer of the Privy Council.

Mordaunt was Sunak's leadership rival both over the summer and last week, following Liz Truss's resignation. She finished in third on her first go and second on Monday.

Pulling out two minutes before nominations were due to be announced, Mordaunt said Sunak's role as the UK's first British Asian PM would be "historic" and showed the Conservative Party's "diversity and talent".

Reports suggest she was hoping for one of the big offices of state, such as foreign or defence secretary, but instead she has kept the fairly junior cabinet role that Truss gave her in September.

The 49-year-old Portsmouth North MP has been in and around government for the best part of a decade and even had a brief spell as a reality TV star.

Under former PM Theresa May, she served in three roles: women and equalities minister, international development secretary and defence secretary. She was then pushed out by Boris Johnson when he took office and brought back into the fold by Truss after her success in the leadership contest.

Chris Heaton-Harris, Northern Ireland secretary under Liz Truss, has also stepped through the door of No 10.

He joins other colleagues who have walked into Downing Street in the past hour or so, whose briefs are yet to be announced: Michael Gove, Gillian Keegan, Kemi Badenoch, Michelle Donelan, Therese Coffey, Steve Barclay and Mel Stride.

Sam Francis
Political reporter

It might feel like there have been dozens of cabinet ministers of late, but there are strict rules around how many ministers a prime minister can appoint.

The Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 sets out the prime minister can appoint 22 cabinet ministers.

Weirdly the rules don't limit the number of ministers who can attend cabinet meetings. The rules around this are slightly more fluid. There were 10 people in Boris Johnson’s December 2019 government who attended cabinet without being full cabinet ministers.

What the act does cap is the number of paid ministerial roles at 109. If all cabinet ministers are filled then there can be a maximum of 29 other junior ministers and the rest are a mix of law officers, and roles focused on keeping the machinery of government moving - such as whips.

Known as the payroll vote, this massive block of MPs is expected to vote with the government in normal times.

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Grant Shapps has been appointed as the new business secretary, replacing Jacob Rees-Mogg who resigned earlier.

The Welwyn Hatfield MP and former transport secretary was fired by Liz Truss when she became PM in September, after he backed Rishi Sunak in the summer's leadership contest.

However, he made a miraculous comeback when he was brought back as home secretary - six days ago - as her government began to fall apart.

He is known for his skills in monitoring political rebellions, using spreadsheets to record his colleagues’ views – and has played a role in the downfall in a number of PMs.

He’s also faced his own scandals and resigned as international development minister following allegations he ignored warnings about bullying when he was party co-chairman.

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Suella Braverman has been re-appointed as home secretary - less than a week after she resigned from the same role in Liz Truss's cabinet.

She was appointed home secretary, one of the top jobs in government, in September when Liz Truss became the new prime minister. But she resigned last Wednesday over a "mistake".

In her resignation letter she said she had sent an official document from her personal email address, and breaking the ministerial code.

She also criticised Truss saying her government had "broken key pledges that were promised to voters".

Braverman is back as the person responsible for overseeing UK borders, policing and counter-terrorism.

Speaking at a fringe event at the party's conference in Birmingham last month, she said it was her "dream" to have a flight sending migrants to Rwanda depart before Christmas.

Political commentators are noting the lack of women in Rishi Sunak's cabinet so far.

We've seen Suella Braverman, who's rumoured to be making a comeback as home secretary, former Deputy PM Therese Coffey and Gillian Keegan enter No 10 but none of their new roles has been made public yet.

The current trade secretary, Kemi Bandenoch, has also just gone in - as has Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan.

Stay with us for more cabinet announcements.

David Wallace Lockhart
BBC political correspondent

Earlier today, one MP told me that some politicians are “zombies” - their ministerial career seems to be over, but they suddenly rise from the ‘dead’ and return to the front bench.

Some MPs, they said, even become “double zombies” - they fall out of favour twice before returning.

It looks like Michael Gove will meet this definition.

The man sacked once by Theresa May, and then sacked in the midst of Boris Johnson’s downfall, looks set to make a return to the front bench.

He’s had a long ministerial career, and it’s apparently not over yet.

After a significant clear out of Liz Truss's Cabinet, Rishi Sunak has taken little time to stamp his own authority.

Here's who we know has what so far:

• Prime Minister Sunak's first appointment was to keep Jeremy Hunt as chancellor
• Dominic Raab will return to the roles of deputy prime minister and justice secretary
• James Cleverly and Ben Wallace have both retained their roles as foreign secretary and defence secretary
• The new chief whip will be Simon Hart
• Nadhim Zahawi has been appointed as the minister without portfolio and party chairman
• We've seen the likes of Suella Braverman, Grant Shapps, Oliver Dowden, Steve Barclay, Therese Coffey, Michael Gove and Gillian Keegan go into No 10 but no more appointments as yet

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The arrivals in No 10 are coming in thick and fast now. The latest is Steve Barclay, the former chief of staff to Boris Johnson.

Foreign Office Minister Gillian Keegan has also gone in in the past few minutes

Nadhim Zahawi will remain in cabinet, despite initially backing Boris Johnson in the leadership race.

He’s been made a minister without portfolio - which grants him a cabinet position with no specific responsibilities - and also party chairman, replacing Jake Berry.

Zahawi was previously Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and before that Chancellor of the Exchequer for a short period, replacing Rishi Sunak after his resignation in the wake of the scandal that brought down Boris Johnson.

In the build-up to this week’s leadership contest, Zahawi had supported a Johnson return, even penning an article on the Daily Telegraph’s website that “Boris 2.0” would make “the Tories and Britain great again”. However, shortly after Johnson announced he wasn’t running on Sunday evening the article was removed from the Telegraph’s website.

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Oliver Dowden has been appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Downing Street has confirmed.

Dowden, MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire, was appointed by Boris Johnson as secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport in 2020.

In September 2021, he was moved to become Conservative party co-chairman and attended cabinet as minister without portfolio.

Raab reappointment will go down like lead balloonpublished at 16:44 British Summer Time 25 October 2022

16:44 BST 25 October 2022

Dominic Casciani
Legal Correspondent

Dominic Raab’s reappointment at justice secretary will go down like a lead balloon among many in the criminal justice system who believe he did little to solve what they regard as a crisis.

For months he refused to meet criminal barristers over implementing the government’s independent review of how they should be paid for defence work.

As soon as Raab got the push from Liz Truss, his succcessor Brandon Lewis struck a deal that ended the barristers' strike in the courts, meaning trials of alleged murderers, rapists, thieves and others could resume.

The Criminal Bar Association, representing barristers, has said it remains “willing to work with any minister who steps up to the role” - but it’s not remotely clear how that will be possible, given Raab opposed the very deal his successor subsequently struck.

Criminal solicitors are warning that their part of the business is also in a recruitment and pay crisis - and court backlogs and delays for victims are at record levels.

On top of that, Raab's pet project, the controversial and constitution-changing Bill of Rights, is still before Parliament. Liz Truss had planned to bin it. Will it now be resurrected?

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Therese Coffey, who served as health secretary and deputy prime minister under Liz Truss, has just stepped into Downing Street. We'll let you know when we hear whether she's got a job in Sunak's cabinet.

Michael Gove has been spotted heading into No 10 Downing Street next. The former cabinet minister backed Rishi Sunak to be the next Conservative Party leader earlier this year, over Liz Truss.

The ex-levelling up secretary was a prominent critic of Truss's tax policies.

Mel Stride has just entered No 10 Downing Street.

In 2019 he was appointed Leader of the House of Commons under Theresa May and backed Sunak in both Tory leadership elections this year.

You can see who's coming and going from No 10 via our live stream at the top of this page.

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Ben Wallace has been re-appointed as defence secretary, Downing Street has confirmed.

Wallace was appointed defence secretary in July 2019 and retained his post in Liz Truss's government. Today's continuity was anticipated given he's been leading the UK response to the war in Ukraine.

He's popular with Tory members and is considered to be widely respected across the parliamentary party, but Wallace chose not to stand in either recent leadership contest.

Wallace has been a strong advocate of increasing defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 - which Liz Truss pledged - but Sunak has made no guarantees on this.

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James Cleverly has been re-appointed foreign secretary, Downing Street says.

Cleverly was appointed foreign secretary by Liz Truss in September. He's been an MP for Braintree in Essex since 2015.

He also served as education secretary under Boris Johnson.

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Simon Hart has been appointed as the new chief whip in Rishi Sunak's cabinet, replacing Wendy Morton

Hart has been the MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire since 2010 and served as Secretary of State for Wales under Boris Johnson between 2019 and 2022.

Before that, he had been a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.

He backed Remain in the 2016 referendum.

Outside of politics, he previously worked as a chartered surveyor. Before being elected as an MP he was chief executive of the Countryside Alliance.