Following Liz Truss’s resignation as prime minister and her replacement by Rishi Sunak, Dominic Raab and Suella Braverman have been reappointed to their roles as justice secretary and home secretary respectively. The Ministry of Justice now has two new appointees as ministers of state, Edward Argar (victims and courts) and Damian Hinds (prisons, parole and probation). Argar previously held a number of posts, the latest of which (chief secretary to the Treasury) lasted a mere 12 days. Hinds had been minister for security before resigning (alongside a number of his colleagues) on 7 July 2022. Lord Bellamy KC remains in post as the minister responsible for legal aid.

Raab has resurrected his controversial Bill of Rights Bill, intended to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 and ‘restore a common-sense approach to human rights in the United Kingdom context’ (see para 1 of the explanatory notes to the bill). Meanwhile, he will be the subject of an independent inquiry into bullying claims following three formal complaints made against him.

In the Home Office, Robert Jenrick has been appointed as minister for immigration. He too had a previous short-lived post, as minister of state at the Department of Health and Social Care, appointed by Truss on 7 September 2022. Before that, Jenrick was housing, communities and local government secretary.