Cabinet: Truss and Greening in, Gove out

Conservative MP Conor Burns tells the BBC News Channel that Theresa May is "incredibly straight dealing, her word means her word".

Having said "Brexit means Brexit" during her leadership bid, he says you can see from her appointments to cabinet that "she absolutely meant that"

"She's going to bring to government a stability and a seriousness, this is a return to old-fashioned, proper, serious politics," he says.

Labour’s NEC is still ironing out the new rules. After raising the bar for the one-off voters by increasing the one-off fee to £25, they’re now discussing the affiliated supporters.

So far, they’ve decided only people who joined affiliated organisations before January 12 can vote – as long as they register soon - exact date for that tbc.

Warning: our TV piece contains low-tech graphics (as our graphics team were snowed under with Theresa May’s new Cabinet!)

Boris Johnson can succeed as foreign secretary if he "mugs up" and "knuckles down", says a former top British diplomat. Sir Peter Ricketts, who was both UK ambassador in Paris and the top civil servant in the Foreign Office, said overseas diplomats would want to see Mr Johnson adapt his showmanship to the disciplines of the job.   

Baroness Sharp of Guildford makes her valedictory speech - marking her retirement from the House of Lords after 18 years.

She tells peers she wants to spend more time doing things with her husband who recently turned 85, and looks forward to "reading books, and not library papers".

Peers have been able to retire from the upper chamber since the introduction of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 - it was agreed that retiring members should be able to make a valedictory speech to mark their retirement.

She uses her speech to focus on the importance of education in ending poverty. 

Back outside Downing Street and the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith, who's watching the comings and goings, says the Transport Secretary is yet to be announced "unless I've missed that".

The Times's Sam Coates says Theresa May is "nothing if not self confident" - perhaps brave, perhaps foolhardy, he suggests, having promoted some big egos.

"You've got lots of big egos, all of them have a different plan, different instincts" and only Mrs May can referee between them. David Davis and Philip Hammond among others are "all at odds with one another".

Sir Andrew Cahn says it would be illegal for Dr Fox to have formal trade negotiations with any non-EU countries for the moment but adds the reality is: "Of course one can have conversations."

"The EU Commission may fuss and complain about it but we can ignore that. There is no absolutely no political difficulty with Liam Fox travelling the world, talking to countries, finding out who's up for a trade deal."

But he says he can't do formal negotiations "and he certainly can't sign anything". 

He adds: "We can afford to irritate our community partners up to a point, they after all, are irritating us by telling us we can't do what we want to do."

He believes there are a few deals we could do "very rapidly" - possibly Canada as there's an "oven ready deal" there already struck with the EU. But he says the process will take a decade to get deals around the world. 

What will be in Liam Fox's in-tray as he comes back to cabinet as international trade minister? 

Sir Andrew Cahn, former chief of UK Trade and Investment, the government body that promotes exports, says a "complete remodelling" of Whitehall is under way.

Civil servants and politicians need to quickly decide on who does what job and which buildings they use before focusing on the policy "within a matter of days, weeks".

Gordon Brown "constantly restructured Whitehall and things didn't get done", he says. 

Sir Peter Ricketts, former UK ambassador to France and former Foreign Office Permanent Secretary, says Mr Johnson is seen as a "warm charismatic person" in Paris and but people were surprised at how he conducted the Leave campaign.

"Now they will want to see that this big figure who's full of showmanship can adapt quite rapidly to the much more disciplined style needed of a Foreign Secretary, who does his homework, and who mugs it up and who chooses his words."

He says French diplomats are "a pretty pragmatic bunch," he says and people will adapt to him quickly.

"I'm sure he will be very concerned not to mess up."

Boris Johnson has been appointed as the new foreign secretary.

Sue Cameron, a journalist who regularly writes about Whitehall, was inside the Foreign Office when news of his appointment hit the phones of mandarins, as she told presenter Edward Stourton.

German politicians are "slightly astonished" by the appointment of Boris Johnson as foreign secretary, according to an MP from Angela Merkel's party. "We don't have any other option and we take it as it comes," Kai Whittaker, a British-German MP in the CDU party, told presenter Edward Stourton.   

More now on new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's previous less-than-diplomatic remarks about other countries and their leaders in the past.

Kai Whittaker, of Germany's CDU party, said the appointment was "astonishing" but he felt Mrs May had probably felt it was better to have Mr Johnson inside the cabinet, than outside.

Will he find it difficult to deal with German diplomats?: "I don't think so, he has international experience, he has experience as [London Mayor]. I think he's capable of doing the job but his task will be much more reaching out to other regions of the world rather than just Europe."

Will German diplomats be happy dealing with Mr Johnson? "We don't have any other option and we will take it as it comes," says Mr Whittaker.

BBC News deputy political editor John Pienaar says the cabinet has been "torn apart and reformed" with those surrounding David Cameron  like Michael Gove, and Oliver Letwin, being removed.

He says of the promise of many more women "we haven't got there yet" but he expects it to balance out over the course of the day as more appointments are announced.

On Old Etonians, he says it's "minus two and plus one" - as Boris Johnson comes in.

Outgoing Justice Secretary Michael Gove was "no friend of Theresa May", he says and she has shown some ruthlessness in her appointments and sackings.