First Johnson ministry

This article is about the people in Boris Johnson's first government. For the events of Boris Johnson's first term as prime minister, see Premiership of Boris Johnson § First Term (July – December 2019).

First Johnson ministry
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
July – December 2019
Johnson holding his first cabinet meeting
Date formed	24 July 2019
Date dissolved	16 December 2019
People and organisations
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Prime Minister's history	Premiership of Boris Johnson
First Secretary	Dominic Raab
Ministers removed	3 resigned
Member party	Conservative Party
Status in legislature	Minority with DUP confidence & supply 317 / 650 (49%)
Opposition cabinet	Corbyn Shadow Cabinet
Opposition party	Labour Party
Opposition leader	Jeremy Corbyn
History
Outgoing election	2019 general election
Legislature terms	2017–2019[note 1]
Predecessor	Second May ministry
Successor	Second Johnson ministry

The first Johnson ministry began on 24 July 2019 when Queen Elizabeth II invited Boris Johnson to form a new government, following the resignation of the predecessor Prime Minister Theresa May.^[2] May had resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party on 7 June 2019; Johnson was elected as her successor on 23 July 2019. The Johnson ministry was formed from the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom, as a Conservative minority government. It lost its working majority on 3 September 2019 when Tory MP Phillip Lee crossed the floor to the Liberal Democrats. An election was called for 12 December 2019, which led to the formation of a Conservative majority government, the second Johnson ministry.

History

Theresa May announced on 24 May 2019 that she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and therefore prime minister, after failing three times to secure passage through the House of Commons of her Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill, which would have seen the United Kingdom leave the European Union. Her announcement also followed the Conservative Party's very poor showing in the 2019 European Parliament elections in the UK. Her resignation as Conservative leader took effect on 7 June 2019.

The former London Mayor and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was elected to succeed May on 23 July 2019. He was appointed prime minister on the following day by Queen Elizabeth II. Johnson inherited a minority government, supported by a confidence and supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.

Johnson appointed his cabinet on 24 July 2019, describing it as a "Cabinet for modern Britain",^[3] with The Guardian branding it "an ethnically diverse but ideologically homogeneous statement of intent".^[4] While forming his government, Johnson dismissed 11 senior ministers and accepted the resignation of six others, a purge described by Johnson's ally Nigel Evans as "not so much a reshuffle as a summer's day massacre".^[5][6] The mass dismissal was the most extensive Cabinet reorganisation without a change in ruling party in postwar British political history, exceeding the seven Cabinet ministers dismissed in the "Night of the Long Knives" of 1962,^[7] and was dubbed the "Night of the Blond Knives" by The Sun.^[8]

Among other appointments, Johnson made Dominic Raab the First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary, and appointed Sajid Javid and Priti Patel as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary respectively. Johnson increased the number of ministers attending the Cabinet to 33, four more than had attended the May Cabinet. One quarter of those appointed were women, proportionally less than the May and Cameron ministries. The Cabinet set a new record for ethnic minority representation, with four secretaries of state and two additional ministers coming from minority backgrounds; 17% of the Cabinet were from BAME backgrounds, compared to 14% of the UK population.^[3] Nearly two-thirds of those appointed went to fee-paying schools, and almost half had attended Oxford or Cambridge universities.^[3] Johnson also created a new ministerial title to be held by himself, Minister for the Union, fulfilling a campaign pledge he had made in the leadership election.^[9]

Loss of majority and ministerial resignations

Johnson lost his working majority on 3 September 2019, when Phillip Lee crossed the floor to join the Liberal Democrats.^[10][11] This was reduced further later the same day when 21 Conservative MPs had the whip removed after voting against the Government in order to enable Parliament to take control of the order paper and to debate a back bench bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit.^[12]

On 5 September 2019, Johnson's brother and Orpington MP Jo Johnson announced his intention to resign both his ministerial position and parliamentary seat, stating "In recent weeks I've been torn between family loyalty and the national interest — it's an unresolvable tension & time for others to take on my roles as MP & Minister."^[13] On 7 September 2019, Amber Rudd announced she was resigning as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for Women and Equalities, and leaving the Conservative Party.^[14]

Amid an impasse in parliament over Brexit, an election was called for 12 December 2019 by virtue of the passage of the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 on 31 October 2019. The Conservatives won a majority, leading to the formation of the second Johnson ministry on 16 December 2019.

Cabinet

July–December 2019

First Johnson cabinet^[15]^[16]

Portfolio	Portrait	Minister	Term
Cabinet ministers
Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Minister for the Civil Service Minister for the Union Commonwealth Chair-in-Office		The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP	2019–2022
Chancellor of the Exchequer Second Lord of the Treasury		The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP [17][18]	2019–2020
First Secretary of State Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs		The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP [19][20]	2019–2021
Secretary of State for the Home Department		The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP [21][22]	2019–2022
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster		The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP [23]	2019–2021
Secretary of State for Justice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain		The Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP [24]	2019–2021
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union		The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP [25]	2018–2020
Secretary of State for Defence		The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP [26]	2019–2023
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care		The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP [27]	2018–2021
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy		The Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP [28]	2019–2020
Secretary of State for International Trade President of the Board of Trade		The Rt Hon Liz Truss MP [29][30]	2019–2021
Minister for Women and Equalities			Sept 2019–2022
		The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP [31]	2018 – Sept 2019[32]
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
		The Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey MP	Sept 2019 – Sept 2022
Secretary of State for Education		The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE MP [33]	2019–2021
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs		The Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP [34]	2019–2020
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government		The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP [35]	2019–2021
Secretary of State for Transport		The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP [36]	2019–2022
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland		The Rt Hon Julian Smith MP [37]	2019–2020
Secretary of State for Scotland		The Rt Hon Alister Jack MP [38]	2019–2024
Secretary of State for Wales		The Rt Hon Alun Cairns MP [39]	2016 – November 2019
Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal		The Rt Hon The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park PC [40]	2016–2022
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport		The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP [41]	2019–2020
Secretary of State for International Development		The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP [42]	2019–2020
Minister without Portfolio Party Chairman		Lt Col The Rt Hon James Cleverly TD VR MP [43]	2019–2020
Also attending cabinet meetings
Chief Secretary to the Treasury		The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP [44]	2019–2020
Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council		The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP [45]	2019–2022
Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury		The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP [46][47]	2019–2022
Attorney General		The Rt Hon Geoffrey Cox QC MP [48]	2018–2020
Minister of State for Energy		The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP [49]	2019–2021
Minister for the Cabinet Office Paymaster General		The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP [50]	2019–2020
Minister of State for the Northern Powerhouse		The Rt Hon Jake Berry MP [51][52]	2019–2020
Minister of State for Housing		The Rt Hon Esther McVey MP [53]	2019–2020
Minister of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Universities		The Rt Hon Jo Johnson MP [54]	July–Sept 2019[55]
Minister of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and International Development		The Rt Hon Zac Goldsmith MP	Sept–Dec 2019
Minister of State for Security Deputy for EU Exit and No Deal Preparation		The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP [56]	2019–2020

Changes

• Jo Johnson quit the government on 5 September 2019 and said that he would resign as an MP.^[57] His spot in the cabinet was filled by Zac Goldsmith, who was made Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and at the Department for International Development on 10 September 2019.^[58]
• Amber Rudd resigned from the cabinet and from the Conservative Party on 7 September 2019.^[14] She was replaced as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by Thérèse Coffey on 8 September 2019, and as Minister for Women and Equalities by Liz Truss on 10 September 2019.^[59][60]
• Alun Cairns resigned from his post of Welsh Secretary on 6 November 2019.^[61]

List of ministers

	Minister in the House of Commons		Minister in the House of Lords
Ministers that attend cabinet are listed in bold

Prime Minister and Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office
Post		Minister	Term
	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom First Lord of the Treasury Minister for the Civil Service Minister for the Union	The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	The Rt Hon The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park PC	July 2016 – December 2019
	Minister without Portfolio	The Rt Hon James Cleverly TD VR MP (unpaid; also Chairman of the Conservative Party)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council	The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister for the Cabinet Office Paymaster General	The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for Implementation)	Simon Hart MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State (Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth)	The Rt Hon Jake Berry MP (jointly with Housing, Communities and Local Government)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for the Constitution)	Chloe Smith MP	January 2018 – December 2019
	Interim Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for the Constitution)	Kevin Foster MP (jointly with Wales Office and Whips Office)	April 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for Defence People and Veterans)	Johnny Mercer MP (jointly with Defence)	July 2019 – December 2019

Departments of State

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	The Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Business, Energy & Clean growth	The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research & Innovation	The Rt Hon Jo Johnson MP (jointly with Education)	July 2019 – September 2019
		The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP (jointly with Education)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility	Kelly Tolhurst MP	July 2018 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Business & Industry	Nadhim Zahawi MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Climate Change)	The Rt Hon The Lord Duncan of Springbank (jointly with Northern Ireland Office)	July 2019 – December 2019

Defence
	Secretary of State for Defence	The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for the Armed Forces	The Rt Hon Mark Lancaster TD VR MP	July 2017 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Defence	The Rt Hon The Baroness Goldie DL PC (unpaid)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Defence Procurement)	Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Defence People and Veterans)	Johnny Mercer MP (jointly with Cabinet Office)	July 2019 – December 2019

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Sport, Media and Creative Industries	Nigel Adams MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts. Heritage and Tourism	Rebecca Pow MP	May 2019 – September 2019
		Helen Whately MP	September 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital and Broadband	Matt Warman MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Civil Society & DCMS)	The Rt Hon The Baroness Barran MBE PC (Unpaid)	July 2019 – December 2019

Education
	Secretary of State for Education	The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for School Standards	The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP	May 2015 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research & Innovation	The Rt Hon Jo Johnson MP (jointly with BEIS)	July 2019 – September 2019
		The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP (jointly with BEIS)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)	Kemi Badenoch MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Michelle Donelan MP (Maternity Cover)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)	The Rt Hon The Lord Agnew of Oulton DL (unpaid)	July 2019 – December 2019

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	The Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Environment and Rural Opportunity	Thérèse Coffey MP	July 2019 – September 2019
		Rebecca Pow MP	September 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	George Eustice MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	Zac Goldsmith MP (jointly with International Development)	July 2019 – September 2019
	Minister of State	The Rt Hon Zac Goldsmith MP (jointly with International Development)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity)	The Rt Hon The Lord Gardiner of Kimble PC	July 2019 – December 2019

Equalities Office
	Minister for Women and Equalities	The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP (jointly with Work and Pensions)	July 2019 – September 2019
		The Rt Hon Liz Truss MP (jointly with International Trade)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State (Minister for Equalities)	The Rt Hon The Baroness Williams of Trafford PC (jointly with Work and Pensions to September 2019, International Trade from September 2019)	July 2016 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Women)	Victoria Atkins MP (jointly with Work and Pensions to September 2019, International Trade from September 2019)	January 2018 – December 2019

Exiting the European Union
	Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP	November 2018 – December 2019
	Minister of State	The Rt Hon The Lord Callanan PC	October 2017 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	James Duddridge MP	July 2019 – December 2019

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs First Secretary of State	The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Europe and the Americas	The Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa	Commander The Rt Hon Andrew Murrison MP (jointly with International Development)	May 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Africa	Andrew Stephenson MP (jointly with International Development)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for the Commonwealth, the UN and South Asia	The Rt Hon The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon PC	June 2017 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Asia and the Pacific)	Heather Wheeler MP	July 2019 – December 2019

Health and Social Care
	Secretary of State for Health and Social Care	The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP	July 2018 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Health	The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP	July 2019 – September 2019
		Edward Argar MP	September 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Care	Caroline Dinenage MP	January 2018 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health & Primary Care	Jo Churchill MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention & Patient Safety	Nadine Dorries MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	The Rt Hon The Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford	January 2019 – December 2019

Home Office
	Secretary of State for the Home Department	The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Deputy Home Secretary and Minister of State for Security	The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Crime, Policing & the Fire Service	Kit Malthouse MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Countering Extremism	The Rt Hon The Baroness Williams of Trafford PC (jointly with Equalities Office)	July 2016 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability)	Victoria Atkins MP (jointly with Equalities Office)	November 2017 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration	Seema Kennedy OBE MP	July 2019 – December 2019

Housing, Communities & Local Government
	Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government	The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Housing	The Rt Hon Esther McVey MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth	The Rt Hon Jake Berry MP (jointly with Cabinet Office)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government and Homelessness)	Luke Hall MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Faith and Communities)	The Rt Hon The Viscount Younger of Leckie	July 2019 – December 2019

International Development
	Secretary of State for International Development	The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for International Development	Commander The Rt Hon Andrew Murrison MP (jointly with the FCO)	May 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State	Andrew Stephenson MP (jointly with the FCO)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	Zac Goldsmith MP (jointly with DEFRA)	July 2019 – September 2019
	Minister of State	The Rt Hon Zac Goldsmith MP (jointly with DEFRA)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development	The Rt Hon The Baroness Sugg CBE	July 2019 – December 2019

International Trade
	Secretary of State for International Trade President of the Board of Trade	The Rt Hon Liz Truss MP (also Minister for Women and Equalities from Sept 2019)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for International Trade	The Rt Hon Conor Burns MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Investment)	Graham Stuart MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Women)	Victoria Atkins MP (also with Equalities)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Minister for Equalites	The Rt Hon The Baroness Williams of Trafford PC (also with Equalities)	September 2019 – December 2019

Justice
	Secretary of State for Justice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain	The Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Advocate General for Scotland Spokesperson for the Lords	The Rt Hon The Lord Keen of Elie QC PC	May 2015 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Prisons and Probation	Lucy Frazer QC MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	Wendy Morton MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	Edward Argar MP	June 2018 – September 2019
		Chris Philp MP	September 2019 – December 2019

Northern Ireland Office
	Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	The Rt Hon Julian Smith CBE MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Northern Ireland (Minister for London)	The Rt Hon Nick Hurd MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	The Hon Robin Walker MP (jointly with Scotland Office)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	The Rt Hon The Lord Duncan of Springbank PC (jointly with BEIS)	October 2017 – December 2019

Scotland Office
	Secretary of State for Scotland	The Rt Hon Alister Jack MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland	Colin Clark MP (jointly with Whips Office)	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	The Hon Robin Walker MP (jointly with Northern Ireland Office)	July 2019 – December 2019

Transport
	Secretary of State for Transport	The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Rail	Chris Heaton-Harris MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for High Speed 2	George Freeman MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation & Maritime	Nus Ghani MP (jointly with Whips Office)	January 2018 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future of Transport	Paul Maynard MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Roads & Light Rail	The Rt Hon The Baroness Vere of Norbiton	July 2019 – December 2019

Treasury
	Chancellor of the Exchequer Second Lord of the Treasury	The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Chief Secretary to the Treasury	The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Financial Secretary to the Treasury	The Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP	May 2019 – December 2019
	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	John Glen MP (Paid as a Parliamentary Secretary)	January 2018 – December 2019
	Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury	Simon Clarke MP (Paid as a Parliamentary Secretary)	July 2019 – December 2019

Wales Office
	Secretary of State for Wales	The Rt Hon Alun Cairns MP	March 2016 – November 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State	Kevin Foster MP (jointly with Cabinet Office until Oct 2019, and Whips Office) (unpaid)	April 2019 – December 2019

Work and Pensions
	Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP (jointly with Equalities Office)	July 2019 – September 2019
		The Rt Hon Therese Coffey MP	September 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work	Justin Tomlinson MP	April 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion	Guy Opperman MP	June 2017 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery	Will Quince MP	April 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Employment)	Mims Davies MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Work and Pensions)	The Rt Hon The Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE DL	July 2019 – December 2019
	Minister of State for Equalities	The Rt Hon The Baroness Williams of Trafford PC (jointly with Equalities Office)	July 2019 – September 2019
	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Women)	Victoria Atkins MP (jointly with Equalities Office)	July 2019 – September 2019

Law officers

Attorney General's Office
	Attorney General for England and Wales	The Rt Hon Geoffrey Cox QC MP	July 2018 – December 2019
	Solicitor General for England and Wales	The Rt Hon Michael Ellis QC MP Suella Braverman on leave since March 2021	July 2019 – December 2019

Office of the Advocate General
	Advocate General for Scotland	The Rt Hon The Lord Keen of Elie QC PC	May 2015 – December 2019

Parliament

House Leaders
	Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	The Rt Hon The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park PC	July 2016 – December 2019
	Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council	The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	The Rt Hon The Earl Howe PC (Unpaid)	May 2015 – December 2019

House of Commons Whips
	Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Deputy Government Chief Whip Treasurer of HM Household	Amanda Milling MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Whip Comptroller of HM Household	Jeremy Quin MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Whip Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	Stuart Andrew MP	July 2019 – December 2019
	Whips Lords Commissioners of the Treasury	Colin Clark MP (jointly with Scotland Office) (unpaid)	July 2019 – December 2019
		Michelle Donelan MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Mike Freer MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Rebecca Harris MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		David Rutley MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Nus Ghani MP (jointly with Transport)	July 2019 – December 2019
		Maggie Throup MP (unpaid)	September 2019 – December 2019
	Assistant Whips	Kevin Foster MP (jointly with Cabinet Office until Oct 2019, and Wales)	July 2019 – December 2019
		Leo Docherty MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Nigel Huddleston MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Marcus Jones MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		James Morris MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Tom Pursglove MP	July 2019 – December 2019
		Iain Stewart MP	July 2019 – December 2019

House of Lords Whips
	Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms	The Rt Hon The Lord Ashton of Hyde PC	July 2019 – December 2019
	Deputy Government Chief Whip Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	The Rt Hon The Earl of Courtown	July 2016 – December 2019
	Whips Baronesses and Lords in waiting	The Rt Hon The Baroness Berridge (unpaid)	July 2019 – December 2019
		The Rt Hon The Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (unpaid)	July 2019 – December 2019
		The Rt Hon The Lord Young of Cookham PC	July 2016 – August 2019
		The Rt Hon The Lord Bethell	July 2019 – December 2019
		The Rt Hon The Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen	August 2019 – December 2019

Departures from the first Johnson ministry

This is a list of resignations from the first government formed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Since forming a government on 24 July 2019 after his appointment as prime minister, Johnson faced 4 resignations, including 2 cabinet ministers. This list omits sitting MPs who left the Conservative Party or had the whip withdrawn. It also discludes all ministers who resigned prior to Boris Johnson taking office as prime minister.

Minister (Cabinet members shown in bold)		Office	Date of resignation	Reason
	Rt Hon Baron Young of Cookham CH PC[note 2]	Lord-in-waiting Government whip	29 August 2019	Resigned in protest of Boris Johnson's plans to prorogue parliament.[62]
	Rt Hon Jo Johnson MP	Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation	5 September 2019	Stated he was "torn between family and national interest".[63]
	Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP	Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	7 September 2019	Resigned over Boris Johnson's "purge" of the party and his "failure" to pursue a deal with the EU.[64]
	Rt Hon Alun Cairns MP	Secretary of State for Wales	6 November 2019	Resigned following claims he had known about a former aide's role in the "sabotage" of a rape trial.[65]

See also

• Johnson cabinets, of Boris Johnson as Mayor of London
• Second Johnson ministry

Notes

1. Although the 57th Parliament was due to last until 2022, Johnson successfully sought the backing of Parliament for a snap election on 29 October 2019.^[1]
2. Member of the House of Lords

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Preceded by Second May ministry

Government of the United Kingdom 2019

Succeeded by Second Johnson ministry