Michael Gove sacked from government as May continues reshuffle

Who’s in – and who’s out? He has said there will be “no emergency budget”, as Mr Osborne had promised.

Meanwhile, a day after their ejection from Government, Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne were spotted nursing their wounds over coffees with their families at a terrace cafe in Notting Hill.

Mrs May announced changes to the machinery of Whitehall which spelled the end for the Department of Energy and Climate Change – established by Gordon Brown in 2008 to lead the UK’s contribution to the fight against global warming. Davis campaigned to leave the EU, and it will be his job to defend Britain’s economy in new trade agreements with European countries.

The appointment of Mr Johnson as Foreign Secretary shocked Westminster and the wider world.

Monday’s meeting, which is to cover a range of concerns from violence in South Sudan to Europe’s relationship with China, also will be attended in part by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who will discuss with foreign ministers policies on Ukraine and the Middle East.

His conduct, which some viewed as treachery, split Eurosceptics, many of whom ended up throwing their weight behind Andrea Leadsom or Mrs May in the Conservative leadership contest.

He will as well oversee new financial agreements which London will have to conclude with other countries after leaving the EU.

Chris Grayling – who was Mrs May’s leadership campaign chief – takes up the post of transport secretary.

Just five years after resigning from the government in disgrace after he admitted allowing his friend Adam Werrity to take an unofficial and undeclared role as his advisor, Liam Fox is back.

But Theresa May has responded to the country voting to leave the European Union by upping the number of cabinet members who backed the Leave campaign to seven – and giving several of them the top jobs.

Another leading Brexiteer, John Whittingdale, has also been sacked from his post as Culture, Media and Sport Secretary. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor overseas but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.

It is one of the four great offices of state, he previously held another when he was Foreign Secretary. His appointment has been something of a surprise to many, who have seen this as an enormous promotion for a relatively unknown MP.

Oliver Letwin, an early champion of the Cameron leadership and a Cabinet minister since 2010, was also dismissed. Like Mr Gove, she will combine the post with serving as Lord Chancellor.

“Brexit means Brexit” has been Theresa May’s message since she started running for the Tory leadership.

The Prime Minister designate has ordered civil servants to start hunting for a building to house the many people who will be tasked with working out how to get the United Kingdom out of the European Union. Following a move to the Justice brief after the 2015 general election. James Brokenshire replaced her, one of several close May allies promoted from junior ministerial positions.

Gove, who fell out badly with May over religious extremism when she was home secretary and he was education secretary, was dismissed on Thursday morning, according to sources.