UK PM Johnson reshuffles his top team to focus on post-COVID rebuild


  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Sep 2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks on as he walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his senior ministers on Wednesday, appointing his party's first female foreign secretary, as he urged his government to get on with the job of tackling economic inequality after COVID-19.

Ending regional inequality is key to the agenda set in 2019 when Johnson won the biggest Conservative Party parliamentary majority since Margaret Thatcher. But the issue has been eclipsed by COVID-19 and headlines about ministerial gaffes.

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