Make that 17 in total - and 11 sackings: Commons Leader Mel Stride has been sacked too (Gove's campaign manager)
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What we know so far: half the Cabinet - 16 - have gone in the most brutal reshuffle in decades. Sacked (10, so far): Hunt Mordaunt Fox Clark Hinds Bradley Wright Mundell Brokenshire Nokes Resigned (4): Hammond Gauke Stewart Perry Retired (2): Grayling Lidington
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Sacking so many shows strong and ruthless leadership (which even Boris's closest allies had doubts about). But each is also now a potential enemy on the backbenches. With a majority of two, he can't afford many.
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Is this is a new record? Certainly more than Macmillan's Night of the Long Knives.
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And that went well, n'est-ce pas?
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Great
the deadwood needed removing. Time for UK PLC to get on that front foot 
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The same problems persist regardless of the cabinet
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You were ten seconds too soon with that tweet - need to add Mel Stride too!
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Only one of them, Mordaunt, will be missed. The most useless collection of incompetent nonentities ever assembled.
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To be replaced by a herd of disgraced nonentities.
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I wonder if that's the exact number Steve Bannon told him to dump?
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