Boris to hold his first Cabinet meeting TODAY after only finishing bloodbath reshuffle at midnight as he makes Raab deputy PM and rewards Rees-Mogg and forgives his brother in bid to deliver Brexit

Sajid Javid: Chancellor of the Exchequer

Sajid Javid’s 18-year banking career that saw him rise to be a £3m-a-year board member at Deutsche Bank will stand him in good stead as he takes the reins of the UK economy.

The Remainer, who backed a hard Brexit during the Tory leadership campaign, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver who arrived in the UK in 1961 with just £1 in his pocket.

Javid, 49, was raised on Stapleton Road in Bristol, which was once dubbed ‘Britain’s worst street’ and described as a ‘lawless hellhole where murder, rape, shootings, drug-pushing, prostitution, knifings and violent robbery are commonplace’.

After attending state school and Exeter University he went on to become an investment banker for nearly two decades.

He has spoken about having mixed-race children with wife Laura and the racism he faced as a child, before politics and also when he joined the Conservative Party.

Mr Javid ran against Mr Johnson in the Tory leadership campaign, eventually finishing fourth. He is the most senior Remain voter in the Government.

After becoming Home Secretary last year, he made a push for No. 10 on the back of Theresa May’s resignation. But after being knocked out of the leadership race, he moved swiftly to back Mr Johnson and was widely tipped as the top choice to move to number 11.

Priti Patel: Home Secretary

The Essex MP – who was once an outspoken proponent of the death penalty – has made a remarkable return to the Cabinet after being sacked by Theresa May for lying.

The mother-of-one is back two years after being forced to resign over secret meetings with Israeli officials, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The 47-year-old Brexiteer became infamous in 2011 when she called for hanging to be reintroduced during her first appearance on Question Time, calling capital punishment a ‘deterrent’.

Mrs Patel’s Ugandan-Indian family arrived penniless in Britain in 1972.

They were forced to abandon a fortune in tea and coffee plantations as they fled the military dictator Idi Amin.

Her father, Sushil – which is also her middle name – ditched plans to go to university and opened a corner shop in Tottenham, North London, with his wife Anjana and his parents.

Mrs Patel, who has been married to marketing consultant Alex Sawyer since 2004, lived above the shop and worked most mornings behind the counter before school.

She was educated at a comprehensive school in Watford, joined the Tory party at 17 and studied economics at Keele University.

A former PR and policy adviser for drinks multinational Diageo she went on to work for the Conservative Party before being picked for her very safe seat in 2010.

After a spell working for the Conservative Party under former leader William Hague, the MP for Witham became a lobbyist for cigarette companies.

Mrs Patel was humiliatingly forced to resign from the PM’s top team in November 2017 after the secret meetings with Israeli officials emerged.

Dominic Raab: Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State

The MP for Esher and Walton worked as an in-house lawyer for the Foreign Office in 2000 has now returned as head of the department.

The former grammar school boy, born to a Czech Jewish father who fled the Nazis in 1938 to Britain as a refugee before the Second World War, helped bring war criminals to justice in The Hague during his first stint in the Foreign Office.

Mr Raab is a karate black belt and former boxing blue at Oxford University in 1995. The 45-year-old is married without any children to Erika, a Brazilian-born marketing executive who was wheeled out for photoshoots in his leadership campaign.

During the campaign he described how his father Peter fled the Nazis and came to Britain aged six as he accused Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell of not standing up for ‘free and tolerant democracy’ that welcomed his dad.

His father learned English, worked for M&S as a food manager and met his mother Jean, who was from Bromley, Kent. He died when Dominic was 12 after losing his battle with cancer.

It’s a major promotion for Mr Raab, who has just four months experience in the Cabinet after a stint as Brexit Secretary last year.

He stood in the Tory leadership race on a hardcore Brexiteer ticket even harder than Mr Johnson. But after being knocked out he quickly backed his former rival and supported him in his campaign.

Mr Raab is in favour of a No Deal Brexit and replaces Jeremy Hunt. He will step into immediate fire with an ongoing diplomatic spat with Iran.

Michael Gove: Cabinet Office Minister

Seasoned minister Michael Gove who blazed a trail as a reformer in departments across Whitehall has been handed a role at the heart of government.

The adopted son of Aberdeen fishworkers already has four Cabinet jobs under his belt – heading education, justice and environment departments as well as a stint as chief whip.

While in charge of the nation’s schools under David Cameron, the Brexiteer pushed through a series of controversial reforms to the curriculum and axed the Building Schools for the Future programme.

But he was criticised most for introducing Free Schools – state funded schools which are exempt from teaching the National Curriculum.

Critics claim the schools take money and pupils from existing schools, increase segregation and division and lead to the break-up of the state school system.

As Environment Secretary he championed a war on plastic – introducing charges for plastic bags and doing away with single-use straws and cups.

He was a firm backer of Theresa May’s Brexit deal to the last, which damaged him in the eyes of the more purist Brexiteer elements.

Mr Gove had a tilt at the Tory leadership but came undone when revelations about his past drug use were revealed.

He admitted using cocaine when he was younger after it came to light in an unauthorised biography.

Mr Gove, 51, is a former Times journalist, 51, who has two children with newspaper columnist Sarah Vine. Mr Gove indicated that his drive to be prime minister is fuelled by a desire to show his parents they were right to take the ‘risk’ of adopting him.

Ben Wallace: Defence Secretary

The former military hero who served in the Scots Guard and was mentioned in dispatches in 1992 has been named Defence Secretary.

The 51-year-old attended Sandhurst military academy after a short stint as a ski instructor and served for eight years in Northern Ireland.

The Remainer rose to the rank of captain and was mentioned in dispatches in 1992 after an incident involving a terrorist cell.

Mr Wallace – who also served in Cyprus, Germany and Central America – has been married to Liza since 2001 and they have three children.

He makes the step up to the Cabinet after spending three years as security minister – during which the country has battled a spate of major terror attacks.

His first call to action in his new role will be bringing about the return of the British ship seized by Iranian forces last week.

Mr Johnson has suggested he wants to boost defence spending and build more naval ships to protect UK-flagged vessels in the Gulf.

Gavin Williamson: Education Secretary

The state-educated South Staffordshire MP, who studied social sciences at the University of Bradford, has made an astonishing return to the Cabinet.

The former Defence Secretary was sacked just three months ago for leaking secrets from a National Security Council meeting.

But he was given the job of overseeing the nation’s schools as a ‘thank you’ from Boris for helping to mastermind his leadership campaign.

Mr Williamson has been dubbed the Cabinet’s Private Pike, after the hapless Dad’s Army character, for a series of gaffes while in the Cabinet.

His appointment comes just months after it appeared his political career seemed over when he narrowly escaped prosecution under the Official Secrets Act for the leak.

While Defence Secretary in 2018, the father-of-two confessed to a fling that at one time threatened to end his marriage with wife Joanne.

Not long after being promoted from Tory chief whip he admitted to a brief office romance with a former colleague. He said it was ‘a dreadful mistake’ but Joanne had forgiven him.

Mr Williamson, 43, who was made Defence Secretary following the resignation of Sir Michael Fallon over sexual harassment claims, insisted the relationship had not gone beyond kissing ‘a couple of times’.

It occurred before he embarked on a career in politics but he is understood to have revealed details to party officials when he first ran for selection as an MP more than a decade ago.

Matt Hancock: Health and Social Care Secretary

Matt Hancock stays in one of the hardest job in government despite aiming volleys of criticism at Mr Johnson while running against him for the leadership.

He told an interviewer ‘f*ck f*ck Business’ after the new Prime Minister’s much criticised reaction to firms’ No Deal Brexit fears.

But the married father of three, 40, did a superb reverse ferret to become one of Mr Johnson’s chief cheerleaders.

This included reportedly trying to block the release of a paper he commissioned which recommended taxes on milkshakes because it ran contrary to his new boss’s opposition to ‘sin taxes’.

He also poked fun at himself during the campaign after being caught on camera wolfing down a high-sugar stroopwafel ahead of an early-morning TV interview.

Last year he was accused of breaking ethics rules after he praised a private health firm app in a newspaper article sponsored by its maker.

But he has since made some hard-hitting interventions in areas like the impact of social media on health.

In May he joined Ms Mordaunt in backing the Generation Why? report showing that the Tories needed to become more relevant to younger voters.

He called on the party to change its ‘tone’ towards modern Britain or face Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister, in a speech widely seen as setting out his leadership credentials.