Boris Johnson has risked the fury of his own party by handing hapless former minister Chris Grayling a plum job, it has been reported.
The ex-Transport Secretary will sit on Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. And according to the Sun , other Tories on the committee have been ordered to elect him as the body’s new chairman.
The prestigious committee has the role of scrutinising the UK’s security services including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. The committee was formerly run by Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney General.
And its first job will be to publish the long-delayed report on Russian influence in British politics, which the government refused to release before the election.
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