{"id":648408,"date":"2023-02-07T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=648408"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:33:57","slug":"sunak-set-for-mini-reshuffle-to-replace-zahawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sunak-set-for-mini-reshuffle-to-replace-zahawi","title":{"rendered":"Sunak set for mini-reshuffle to replace Zahawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak is set to reshuffle his Cabinet with the appointment of a new Conservative Party chairman and the possibility of reforms to Whitehall departments. The Prime Minister is expected to announce a replacement for Nadhim Zahawi , who was sacked as party chairman and minister without portfolio for breaking the Ministerial Code over his tax affairs. Mr Sunak is also reported to be considering breaking up Grant Shapps&#8217; Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis). During his Tory leadership campaign in the summer of 2022, Mr Sunak said he would create a standalone energy department. The potential overhaul could be &#8220;relatively limited&#8221;, with a &#8220;domino&#8221; effect caused by the naming of a successor for Mr Zahawi, The Times reported, citing a Government source. The Sun reported that Beis and the Department for International Trade could be merged, and a new science and digital department created, leaving culture and sport as a separate unit. A reconfiguration would also affect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak is set to reshuffle his Cabinet with the appointment of a new Conservative Party chairman and the possibility of reforms to Whitehall departments.The Prime Minister is expected to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}