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| Liz Truss 'to be environment secretary' in cabinet reshuffle | Liz Truss 'to be environment secretary' in cabinet reshuffle |
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| Liz Truss looks set to join the cabinet as environment secretary, as part of David Cameron's reshuffle. | Liz Truss looks set to join the cabinet as environment secretary, as part of David Cameron's reshuffle. |
| The BBC's John Pienaar said she has been lined up to replace Owen Paterson, who has been sacked from the job. | |
| Ms Truss, 38, has been an MP since 2010 and an education minister for two years. She is expected to be the first in a number of women promoted. | Ms Truss, 38, has been an MP since 2010 and an education minister for two years. She is expected to be the first in a number of women promoted. |
| Ken Clarke is leaving the cabinet and William Hague is leaving the job of foreign secretary. | Ken Clarke is leaving the cabinet and William Hague is leaving the job of foreign secretary. |
| The prime minister is conducting his most wide-ranging reshuffle since taking office, with a series of notable ministerial departures announced on Monday. | |
| Mr Hague has stepped down as foreign secretary after four years, taking the role of leader of the House of Commons. He has also said he will leave frontline politics after the 2015 general election. | |
| Mr Hague is expected to be succeeded by defence secretary Philip Hammond. | |
| Analysis | |
| By Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor | |
| On Monday the losers learnt their fate. | |
| Now we will discover who are the winners in a reshuffle made more dramatic and more wide-ranging by the decision of William Hague to quit the post he has filled for four years. | |
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| Ms Truss, who entered Parliament in 2010, is one of a number of leading female politicians set to be promoted, with some expected to join the Cabinet. | |
| Other names tipped for promotion include Treasury minister Nicky Morgan, work and pensions minister Esther McVey, whips Claire Perry and Amber Rudd and Priti Patel. | |
| Among other changes, it has been reported that former defence secretary Liam Fox could return to the government although this has yet to be confirmed. | |
| BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has effectively being fired while former Commons leader Andrew Lansley and Attorney General Dominic Grieve had also left the government. | |
| Other Conservative MPs to have lost or left their ministerial jobs include: | |
| Labour has described the reshuffle as the "massacre of the moderates", claiming it marks a lurch to the right on Europe and a range of other issues. | |
| Last year, Mr Hammond said he could contemplate the UK leaving the European Union if it did not get the changes it wanted in a future re-negotiation. |