Time to shake up your top team, Sunak is told

RISHI SUNAK is under pressure to hold a reshuffle, with up to eight ministers eager to quit politics.

- Jonathan Walker

The PM scrapped plans to revamp his top team earlier this year. Instead there were only a few changes, including making Grant Shapps Defence Secretary and Claire Coutinho Energy Secretary.

But there are calls for a wide-ranging changing of the guard, partly because ministers who plan to stand down as MPs can't start looking for new jobs while they still have departmental roles.

Examples include health minister Will Quince, 40, who has announced he will quit as Colchester MP. An insider said: "Will isn't the only one. As many as eight ministers want to leave Parliament, although they haven't all announced it publicly.