Former skills minister Gillian Keegan has been appointed education secretary by new prime minister Rishi Sunak.
She becomes the fifth person to hold the role in just four months.
Keegan replaces Kit Malthouse who left as education secretary today.
Elected to Parliament for the West Sussex seat of Chichester in 2017, Keegan served as a junior minister for apprenticeships and skills between 2020 and 2021, and then as a minister of state in the health department from 2021 to this September.
She became a junior Foreign Office minister last month, with responsibility for Africa.
Born in Leigh, Lancashire, she went to primary school in Yorkshire before moving to Knowsley, Merseyside.
