Profiles: David Cameron's ministerial line-up

After announcing the most important members of his first all-Tory cabinet on Friday and over the weekend, David Cameron has been completing his team. Key members of the new top tier of government are:

Sajid Javid's appointment is the latest upward move in a rapid ascent by the 46-year-old former banker, who has been discussed by some of his colleagues as a possible future party leader.

In his new post, Mr Javid may rely more on his professional experience than his previous job as culture secretary. He had a successful career in international finance before leaving Deutsche Bank in 2009 to pursue a parliamentary seat that led to his election as MP for Bromsgrove the following year.

In one of his big speeches in his 13 months as culture secretary, Mr Javid said arts should be more available to ethnic minorities and the working class.

He has joked casually about his past career as a banker, which he called an even less popular job than being a politician.

Mr Javid grew up in a working-class district in Bristol and is the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver. He has been critical of immigrants who have failed to assimilate into British society after years in the country.

He has called himself a "proud British-born Muslim" but in 2012 he told a Conservative Friends of Israel event that if he had to leave Britain he would enthusiastically live in Israel because of its "warm embrace of freedom and liberty".

In his first finance job, at Chase Manhattan in New York, Mr Javid became the youngest vice-president in the history of the bank at the age of 25.

Though he has played down his political ambitions, when asked by Bloomberg News in 2013 if Britain could elect a Muslim premier, he replied that religion was not a "major barrier to achieving whatever you want" in the UK.

He has four children with wife Laura.

A former parliamentary private secretary to chancellor George Osborne and assistant whip, Amber Rudd, 51, is a firm believer in tackling climate change.

However, the former climate change minister's views are less clear on hot-button issues such as onshore wind power or fracking.

The MP for Hastings and Rye courted controversy when she said in a Financial Times interview that people on benefits were moving to the south coast "[not] to get a job [but] they're moving down here to have easier access to friends and drugs and drink".

She later clarified it by telling local media that unemployment was falling in Hastings and many positive things were going on.

Before entering parliament at the 2010 election, Ms Rudd worked in investment banking for JPMorgan in the City of London and New York and then venture capital.

She went on to set up an executive search agency and wrote for financial publications. Ms Rudd is the sister of well-known PR executive and Tony Blair adviser Roland Rudd and former wife of journalist AA Gill - with whom she has two children.

Ms Rudd has also been an active campaigner on women's issues, chairing the parliamentary group for sex equality and being vice-chairman of the group on sex equality.

Environment group Greenpeace described her appointment as "a hopeful sign that the government remains committed to implementing the climate change act".

Priti Patel, 43, has been promoted from junior Treasury minister to employment minister who will attend cabinet meetings. She replaces Esther McVey, one of the few senior Tories to lose her seat in the election.

The ardent eurosceptic's parents are Ugandan immigrants of Gujarati origin who set up a chain of newsagents in southeast England after moving to the UK in the 1960s.

Ms Patel, a member of the anti-Brussels Referendum party before joining the Conservatives, was elected to parliament as MP for Witham in 2010. At her selection meeting for the candidacy she said she was in favour of restoring the death penalty, putting her at odds with the prime minister.

Mr Cameron last year appointed Ms Patel as his Indian diaspora champion.

Her first job in politics was in the press office of then party leader William Hague after the 1997 general election. She then worked in PR for Weber Shandwick and drinks group Diageo while running unsuccessfully for parliament in the 2005 election.

John Whittingdale, 55, has been a member of parliament since 1992 and has chaired the parliamentary committee scrutinising the media since 2005.

As chairman, he has taken a hard line against the BBC, calling its licence fee worse than the poll tax and unsustainable in the long term.

In his new post he is likely to advocate tougher fiscal oversight of the BBC. Its royal charter is up for renewal next year.

Mr Whittingdale has spent nearly his entire career in Conservative politics. After graduating with an economics degree from University College London, he was head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department.

He then advised three successive trade secretaries before becoming Margaret Thatcher's political secretary in 1988.

Mr Whittingdale was criticised by some on Twitter on Monday for an apparent lack of social media savviness. One tweeter noted that he does not have a photo on his LinkedIn page. Unlike his predecessor Mr Javid, Mr Whittingdale has a rather neglected Twitter account.

Greg Clark, 47, an MP since 2005, has built a record as a socially minded Tory. He read economics at Cambridge and at the London School of Economics, where he earned a PhD, and was once - albeit decades ago - a member of the Social Democratic party.

Before his appointment on Monday, Mr Clark was most recently the cities, universities and science minister. He was active in the previous government's work on English devolution. Northern cities including Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield are the so-called "city regions" that have sought greater local powers over industries such as transport and housing.

Mr Clark won re-election by a wide margin on Thursday in his constituency of Royal Tunbridge Wells, a town southeast of London with a large banking community.

Before entering politics he worked for the Boston Consulting Group and as head of commercial policy at the BBC.

Like new energy secretary Amber Rudd, Greg Hands is a former parliamentary private secretary to chancellor George Osborne, whom he has been close to for years.

Born in New York, the MP for Chelsea and Fulham was deputy chief whip for the final 18 months of the last government. He was considered one of the Conservative MPs who missed out on higher office because of David Cameron having to accommodate so many Liberal Democrats in the coalition government.

His predecessor as chief secretary to the Treasury was Lib Dem Danny Alexander, who lost his seat last week.

A prolific tweeter, Mr Hands entered parliament in 2005, winning the seat of Hammersmith and Fulham from Labour. His seat was abolished under a boundary review and he was selected to stand for the newly created Chelsea and Fulham in 2010.

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