Dismissed
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Torbay
MP
Kevin
Foster
has
been
dismissed
from
his
job
as
minister
of
state
at
the
Department
for
Transport.
He
had
only
been
at
the
DfT
for
seven
weeks,
having
been
appointed
on
7 September.
His
departure
is
the
latest
in
a
series
of
replacements
of
Liz
Truss’s
ministers
by
her
successor
Rishi
Sunak.
Mr
Foster
was
first
elected
to
Parliament
in
May
2015.
Born
in
Plymouth,
he
grew
up
in
south
Devon
and
was
given
his
previous
ministerial
role
by
Boris
Johnson,
who
appointed
him
as
the
minister
for
future
borders
and
immigration
in
February
2020.
Before
he
had
held
several
other
government
posts,
including
minister
for
Wales
and
assistant
government
whip.
In
his
departure
letter
to
the
Prime
Minister,
Mr
Foster
pledged
his
unwavering
support
for
Mr
Sunak’s
administration.

Strike
++


An
RMT
strike
will
take
place
on
ScotRail
tomorrow.
The
RMT’s
company
council
and
national
executive
committee
had
rejected
ScotRail’s
latest
offer,
which
ScotRail
said
would
have
seen
the
lowest
paid
staff
receive
a
basic
pay
increase
of
almost
7.5
per
cent.
ScotRail
also
said
its
latest
offer
had
depended
on
tomorrow’s
strike
being
called
off,
as
well
as
a
vote
by
staff
on
whether
to
accept
the
increase,
which
the
union
refused
to
do.
Before
a
previous
ScotRail
strike
on
10
October,
RMT
general
secretary
Mick
Lynch
had
said:
‘Our
members
refuse
to
be
made
poorer
and
will
exercise
their
industrial
strength
to
let
ScotRail
know
that
they
will
not
rest
until
they
are
paid
what
they
deserve.’