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Birmingham City and Leeds alumnus brings experience in research charity sector and media to politics
Nusrat Ghani has been named as the new science minister after a month-long delay since Liz Truss took over as prime minster and started appointing new ministers.
Unlike her predecessor in the role, George Freeman, who was a life science minister in a previous government and was well known in the sector, Ghani, like another recent science minister, Amanda Solloway, is more likely to be unknown to many in the R&D sector.