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Jeremy Hunt has been given a new job in Theresa May's lengthy cabinet reshuffle.

There had been speculation that hunt would be demoted to Business Secretary after presiding over the worst NHS winter crisis in years.

But after spending more than an hour inside Number 10, Mr Hunt emerged from the famous black door as Secretary of State for Health ...and Social Care.

It would appear to confirm the full integration of Social Care into the Department of Health.

It comes after the Health Secretary was forced to apologise last week, after he approved the cancellation of 55,000 non-urgent operations, such as hip replacements, until February.

The order to halt tens of ­thousands of hospital operations will create the biggest backlog in NHS history, it was warned.

At least 16 NHS trusts with A&E units have been put on the highest level of alert.

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Five of Mrs May's 21 Cabinet ministers have been tipped for the sack while others could be shunted to new roles, it is claimed.

But the big four 'offices of state' - Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Chancellor Philip Hammond or Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Brexit Secretary David Davis are believed to be staying put.

Asked if she still planned to see through her term as Prime Minister, Mrs May yesterday told the BBC’s Andrew Marr: "I'm not a quitter. I'm in this for the long term."