Following a stint on the backbenches during Johnson's caretaker government and the premiership of Liz Truss, he was re-appointed to the Cabinet in October 2022 by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was made Secretary of State in the Cabinet office in February 2023 and, following the resignation of Dominic Raab, was appointed deputy prime minister in April of the same year.
