Autumn statement to be held on 17 November instead of Halloween fiscal update – UK politics live

Good morning. Rishi Sunak will meet with his new cabinet this morning and face his first Commons appearance as prime minister, as he begins the gruelling task of uniting his party and restoring the country’s economic credibility.

As he entered No 10 yesterday as PM, the fifth in six years, Sunak vowed to fix the “mistakes” of his predecessor Liz Truss and pledged to bring “integrity and accountability” into his government. His cabinet reshuffle was billed as returning experienced hands to the top jobs, but Sunak gambled by restoring Suella Braverman to the Home Office less than week after she was forced to resign for a security breach.

Sunak’s new cabinet keeps Jeremy Hunt as chancellor and attempts bridge the divide with former Boris Johnson supporters by sticking with the foreign secretary, James Cleverly, and the defence secretary, Ben Wallace.

Dominic Raab, Sunak’s own key ally who described Truss’s economics as a suicide note, becomes his deputy prime minister and justice secretary.

However, Sunak made several decisions that alarmed some MPs, as he reappointed Braverman as home secretary and declined to promote his former rival Penny Mordaunt. He also appointed David TC Davies as Welsh secretary despite his controversial comments on subjects including face veils, trans rights, child refugees, climate change and same-sex marriage.

Braverman, who still harbours her own leadership ambitions, was handed the job six days after she was forced to resign for a security breach for emailing confidential policy to a backbench MP, John Hayes, and trying to copy in his wife but mistakenly emailing it to another MP’s office. Officials raised alarm that Braverman may have been sharing sensitive information outside the department.

The return of Braverman, a Eurosceptic rightwinger, drew a shocked reaction from some MPs on the moderate wing of the party – but is widely seen as a “payback” for her endorsement of Sunak when Johnson still threatened a comeback during the leadership race last week.

Here is the agenda for the day.

09.30am. Sunak will hold his first cabinet meeting.

09.45am. Home affairs committee on Channel crossings, which is due to hear from David Neal, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration.

12pm. PMQs

2.15pm. Treasury committee hearing on the Autumn 2022 fiscal events.

My name is Léonie Chao-Fong and I’ll be taking you through today’s developments in British politics for the next few hours. Feel free to drop me a message if you have anything to flag, you can reach me on Twitter or via email.