Zac Goldsmith

The newly appointed Lord criticised the system as ‘seedy lists of party apparatchiks appointed by power-hungry party leaders’.

There had been speculation as to how the role of environment minister would be filled after Goldsmith lost his seat, but he's kept his job.

Zac Goldsmith hopes to be reinstalled as Tory MP for Richmond Park - months after he quit the party and forced an unsuccessful by-election.