PM appoints Greg Hands as Tory chair and restructures Whitehall departments

Rishi Sunak has announced a mini-reshuffle to stamp his authority on the fractured Conservative party, alongside a sweeping Whitehall restructure that created four new government departments.

The prime minister promoted Greg Hands, a trade minister, to Conservative party chair tasked with running the May elections campaign, replacing Nadhim Zahawi who was sacked last week for failing to declare his tax affairs.

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