Rishi Sunak reshuffle: Braverman named home secretary, Gove returns as levelling up secretary, Mordaunt not promoted –

Michael Gove returns to his former role as levelling up secretary after he was dramatically sacked by Boris Johnson in July.

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has spoken out about the controversial appointment of Suella Braverman in the Home Office.

Sunak has “put party before country” by making Braverman home secretary just days after she was forced to resign for beaching the ministerial code, Cooper said.

Downing Street has announced the appointment of Steve Barclay as secretary of state for health and social care.

Barclay served as health secretary from July until September, during which he was confronted by a woman who said the government had done “bugger all” to fix record-high ambulance wait times.

Thérèse Coffey, who was deputy prime minister until today, has now been appointed secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs.

The appointment of Gillian Keegan as education secretary is a real signal about Rishi Sunak’s priorities for her department, the Guardian’s Jessica Elgot writes.

The defence secretary Ben Wallace says he is grateful to the new prime minister for his reappointment.

Downing Street has announced the appointment of Gillian Keegan as secretary of state for education. It’s a big promotion for Keegan, who only became an MP in 2017.

Keegan becomes the fifth education secretary in the space of just four months.

The appointment of Suella Braverman as home secretary, just six days after she was forced to resign for beaching the ministerial code, has raised eyebrows.

Braverman was sacked by Liz Truss on Wednesday because she sent an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP, in a serious breach of ministerial rules.

Sky’s Beth Rigby describes Downing Street’s announcement as controversial and surprising.

Robert Peston from ITV points out that Rishi Sunak just hours ago pledged to lead a government with “integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level”.

Tim Shipman from the Sunday Times points out that Braverman did not stand down last week because she leaked a meaningless document.

Downing Street has announced the reappointment of Penny Mordaunt as lord president of the council and leader of the House of Commons.

As the Guardian’s Jessica Elgot writes, the announcement is a snub for Mordaunt who may have hoped for a promotion after running in the leadership race.

Alister Jack and David Davies have both entered Downing Street in the past few minutes.

James Cleverly says he is honoured to be reappointed as the foreign secretary, adding that he will continue to “protect UK interests overseas and support to our friends and allies around the world”.

Cleverly earlier said he had spoken with Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, and reiterated Britain’s support for Kyiv in the face of Russian aggression.

Kuleba has also now tweeted about the call with his British counterpart:

Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, has gone into No 10. And while the reshuffle has been going on Steve Baker, a Northern Ireland minister, has posted a blunt message on Twitter aimed at the DUP. He frames it as a message from civil society leaders to all politicians in Northern Ireland, and he says they should reform the power-sharing executive, so that it can start distributing funding.

But it is not only the DUP that is blocking the re-establishment of the executive, and so the tweet is implicitly very critical of the party. Tory ministers from the UK government have not normally been willing to address the party like this in public in the past.

I am finishing for the day, but Léonie Chao-Fong is still here and will carry on with the reshuffle coverage.