Penny Mordaunt: a plain-speaking, risk-taking Brexiter

Navy reservist is popular with Conservative Eurosceptics and has an enviable public and parliamentary profilePenny Mordaunt, the new secretary of state for international development, had long been tipped for a big job, but many thought her promotion would have come last week.The confident and exuberant former disabilities minister is a Royal Navy reservist – experience that fuelled rumours that she was a strong contender to replace Michael Fallon as defence secretary after his resignation