Former skills minister Gillian Keegan has become the fifth education secretary in four months.
She replaces Kit Malthouse, who departed the role earlier 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. She became an apprentice at the age of 16 and was sponsored to study a degree in business at Liverpool John Moores University.
