Mark Harper has been named as the new transport secretary, replacing Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who had been appointed by the outgoing Prime Minister, Liz Truss.

New PM, Rishi Sunak, announced his new cabinet yesterday (Tuesday, October 25), after winning the Tory party leadership contest.

He has kept a number of ministers in the same posts they were in before - including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.

Harper, who is a former chief whip, responsible for party discipline, will be in charge at the Department for Transport (DfT). He first joined Government as a minister for constitutional reform under David Cameron.

In 2012, he was appointed immigration minister but resigned from the post two years later after it was revealed his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK.

He was later restored to office as a minister for disabled people and in 2015 he was promoted to chief whip.

During the pandemic his was a vocal opponent of lockdown restrictions as chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs.

Before entering politics, he qualified as an accountant and worked for a big corporation before setting up his own chartered accountancy.

Long-term transport secretary Grant Shapps, who was sacked by Truss, has been appointed business secretary by Rishi Sunak.