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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will replace Lord Frost as the UK's lead negotiator with the EU in post-Brexit talks.
She will retain her role as foreign minister alongside the new post leading negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
It follows the resignation of Lord Frost as Brexit minister on Saturday.
MP Chris Heaton-Harris will become Minister of State for Europe, Downing Street said.
Mr Heaton-Harris will be replaced at the transport department by Wendy Morton, who was previously at the Foreign Office.
Conservative MPs are split over the resignation of Lord Frost, after he resigned citing "concerns about the current direction of travel" of the government.
The peer told Prime Minister Boris Johnson he had concerns over Covid policy, urging him to avoid introducing "coercive measures".
Some Tory backbench MPs who share Lord Frost's views described his exit as a "disaster".
But others in the party said it offered a chance to "press the reset button" in negotiations with the EU.
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