Sunday 4 September 2022 11:28 PM Team Liz: Who will be the key players if Tory leadership favourite triumphs?  trends now

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These are the senior Tories expected to form the core of Liz Truss's first Cabinet.

The Business Secretary is likely to be promoted to Chancellor and have the huge task of keeping the economy afloat and helping households through the cost of living squeeze. 

He will replace Nadhim Zahawi, who could move to the Cabinet Office after just two months at the helm of the Treasury. 

Mr Kwarteng's first actions will include reversing the national insurance increase and scrapping a planned rise in corporation tax.

She stood against Miss Truss in the leadership contest but her anti-woke stance and opposition to the European Convention on Human Rights is set to see her promoted from Attorney General to Home Secretary. 

Her main task will be to crack down on Channel crossings by illegal migrants and to make sure those who do reach England are deported to Rwanda, which current Home Secretary Priti Patel has failed to do.

An early backer of Miss Truss's candidacy, the Education Secretary is expected to be handed her current role of Foreign Secretary. 

The pair have worked together in the Foreign Office, where he was a junior minister, over the past year and he will keep up her strong support for Ukraine and sanctions on

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