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  David Cameron propels Boris Johnson's brother into Downing Street role
  
  Prime Minister gives London Mayor's younger brother Jo senior government job as his head of policy
  
  The Prime Minister has parachuted Boris Johnson's younger brother into a senior government role
  
  in a move widely seen as attempting to reinvigorate the party and appease backbench critics.
  
  Jo Johnson will be appointed as Cabinet Office minister later today, Downing Street confirmed.
  
  His core remit will be to head up the Downing Street policy unit which until now has been presided
  
  over by a civil servant.
  
  Sources suggest he will be expected to sharpen Tory strategy ahead of the next election and
  
  try and claw back support from party malcontents.
  
  Later today Mr Cameron is expected to announce a new Conservative parliamentary advisory board
  
  . They will include Jesse Norman, who led the rebellion over House of Lords reform, Mr Cameron's
  
  former press secretary George Eustice, Peter Lilley, who was social security secretary under
  
  John Major, former schools minister Nick Gibb, Jane Ellison and Paul Uppal.
  
  But it is the appointment of the brother of the London Mayor that is likely to elicit surprise, as well
  
  as criticism from some quarters. The MP for Orpington remains a largely unknown entity inside
  
  senior government, having only entered parliament in 2010.

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