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Greening replaced as education secretary following cabinet reshuffle
EB News: 09/01/2018 - 09:43
Damian Hinds has replaced Justine Greening as education secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet reshuffle.
According to the BBC, Greening, the first comprehensive-educated Tory education secretary, refused a switch to the Department for Work and Pensions, and has resigned.
Hinds is a former DWP minister, went to a Catholic grammar school in Altrincham and then studied at the University of Oxford.
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