Brexit minister David Davis, foreign minister Boris Johnson, finance minister Philip Hammond and interior minister Amber Rudd all kept their positions, along with Greg Clark who leads the business ministry.

Monday's reshuffle was blown off course when Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt convinced May at a lengthy meeting not to move him to a different job.

The reshuffle comes after the disappointing result for Mrs May in the June 2017 general election, in which she and her party defied expectations to consolidate their position in parliament to actually lose seats.

Sir Patrick McLoughlin, the outgoing Conservative party chairman, has confirmed that he has left the cabinet.

The PM has been forced to make changes to her top team following Damian Green's resignation last month as "deputy PM", after he admitted lying about the alleged discovery of pornographic images on his Commons computer during a police raid.

It was some time before Brandon Lewis, the ebullient immigration minister, was formally given the post, as deadlines were missed and progress slipped.

The Conservative Party meanwhile was widely mocked for wrongly tweeting the name of a new chairman, only to delete it and later announce Lewis to the job.

In a letter sent to May first reported by the Financial Times, Davis said the European Union was damaging United Kingdom interests in some of its planning for no deal and that its advice to businesses didn't take into account the possible transition period between 2019-2020.

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By the end of Monday, Theresa May must have felt like all the other hapless British workers who returned to the office for the new year with a spring in their step and the best of intentions, only to find the fearless resolutions they made over the Christmas break crumbling in the face of reality.

In a break from tradition, May has asked not only new appointees but also Cabinet ministers remaining in post to see her at 10 Downing Street.

May's room for manoeuvre is limited by heading a minority government and the need to maintain a delicate Cabinet balance of eurosceptic and pro-European ministers as major Brexit decisions loom.

After starting the two-year Brexit process in March last year, Britain struck a deal in December on the financial settlement with Brussels, as well as expatriate rights and the Irish border.

"Theresa May wanted to reassert her authority but has come out of this looking weaker than ever", he said in a statement.

Johnson, a leading Brexit supporter, kept his job despite challenging Ms May's strategy previous year.

Brexit secretary David Davis wrote to Theresa May last month claiming that the EU's plans could jeopardise contracts and force firms to relocate to the continent, according to the FT.

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire, who failed to secure a deal to restore the power-sharing government in Belfast after it collapsed a year ago, stepped down for health reasons Monday and has been replaced by culture minister Karen Bradley. He was replaced by the culture secretary, Karen Bradley, who will take on the hard task of attempting to resolve the impasse in the province between the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein which has seen no administration there for a year.