Cleverly, MP for Braintree since 2015, replaces Michelle Donelan who spent just 24 hours as Education Secretary before resigning today (7 July).
His most recent ministerial position was as minister of state for Middle East, North Africa and North America from February 2020 to February 2022.
Donelan replaced Nadhim Zawahi who was promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday (5 July) amid a mass resignation of frontbench MPs and senior aides over the Prime Minister’s handling of the Chris Pincher affair.
In a resignation letter to Johnson, Donelan, the MP for Chippenham, said that while she was “worried” about the prospect of the Department for Education having no ministers as the country approaches A-Level and GCSE results days next month, she said: “In life we must always do what we believe is right”.
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