Theresa May promotes string of Brexiteers to aides to ministers in order to shore up her authority

THERESA MAY has promoted a slew of Brexiteers to the lowest rung of the ministerial ladder in a bid to shore up her authority, The Sun can reveal.

Reshuffling the Parliamentary Private Secretaries - who act as unpaid aides to Ministers - No10 have promoted prominent Leave campaigners.

Yet the embattled PM has made a rising star Remainer - Seema Kennedy - her personal hand.

The Lancashire MP will share the role with Mrs May’s current PPS George Hollingbery in a bid to branch out to younger MPs.

However Brexit-backing Bournemouth MP Conor Burns will work for Boris Johnson at the Foreign Office and Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng - who also voted out last year - has been appointed PPS to the Chancellor.

Leaver Gareth Johnson will be PPS to David Davis at the Brexit Department.

Brexit supporting Nus Ghani will be a PPS at the Home Office, while Tom Pursglove and Mike Wood will 'bag carry' at the Trade Department.

But Remain-backing MP Kevin Hollinrake will work for arch-Brexiteer Michael Gove at the Environment Department, and Remain-voting James Heappey will be PPS to Brexit-backing Chris Grayling.

Pro-Remain MP Robert Jenrick will be a PPS to Home Secretary Amber Rudd  with Edward Argar serving Tory Party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin.

Brexit backing Mims Davies will be a PPS to Sajid Javid at the Communities department.

The Chief Whip will address all the new Parliamentary Private Secretaries - nicknamed bag carriers in Westminster - at a meeting tomorrow morning.

But a Tory source told The Sun: "It's the march of the Brexiteers, but a core the PM's core team is still very Remain heavy - from the First Secretary of State Damian Green, Chief of Staff Gavin Barwell and now both of her bag-carriers."