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UK Energy Secretary Grant Shapps has been appointed the new defence secretary in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s mini-reshuffle prompted by Ben Wallace’s formal resignation as defence secretary on Thursday.
The role of defence secretary involves overseeing UK support to Ukraine during its resistance against the Russian invasion.
Shapps has never held a role in the UK Ministry of Defence before but is taking on his fifth role in the cabinet in the last year by becoming its Secretary of State.
Education Minister Claire Coutinho was seen entering No 10 after Shapps, with his energy role expected to be filled.
source: PA
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