General Election 2017

The Hertfordshire MP Mike Penning has been reshuffled out of the government after serving as a minister for seven years.

Mr Penning, who has represented Hemel Hempstead since 2005, was the Armed Forces Minister in the Ministry of Defence.

Previously he had been Policing Minister, Minister for Disabled People, a Northern Ireland Minister and the Junior Transport Minister.

Before becoming a politician, Mike Penning was in the Grenadier Guards and a firefighter inn Essex.

Two more of the region's MPs have been removed from their positions in government.

Harlow MP Robert Halfon will no longer serve as Apprenticeship Minister and Hertfordshire MP Sir Oliver Heald also leaves his post in the Justice department.

The MP for Witham in Essex, Priti Patel, remains in her post at International Development Secretary in Theresa May Cabinet reshuffle.

Priti Patel, who was a leading campaign for Brexit in the EU referendum, was promoted to the Cabinet when Mrs May became Prime Minister in July 2016. She had been Employment Minister under David Cameron.

Her majority in Witham fell slightly to 18,646 in the recent General Election

The Greay Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis has retained his position as a Home Office minister but will now attend Cabinet in what is seen as a promotion.

His new job, however, is not as a full Cabinet Minister.

Mr Lewis was appointed Police and Fire Service Minister in the Home Office by Theresa May in July 2016.

He has been the MP for Great Yarmouth since 2010 and was one of the few Conservative MPs in the Anglia region to see his majority increase in Thursday's General Election.

The South Northamptonshire MP Andrea Leadsom has been made Leader of the House of Commons in the Cabinet reshuffle following the General Election.

Mrs Leadsom, who contested the Conservative leadership against Theresa May in 2016, was moved from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where she was Secretary of State.

Andrea Leadsom has been an MP since 2010 and was a leading campaigner for leaving the European Union.

Her majority in South Northamptonshire was cut from 26,416 to 22,840 in the General Election.

South West Norfolk MP Elizabeth Truss, who was formerly Justice Secretary, has been moved to Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Truss was promoted to the role of Justice Secretary in Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle last July.

Her new role is the second most senior ministerial position in the department after the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Illness on election night meant she wasn't there to hear she'd won the seat for the Tories once more.

Meanwhile, Witham MP Priti Patel will stay on as International Development Secretary.

• Video report by ITV News Anglia's Stuart Leithes

The new MP for Bedford, Labour's Mohammad Yasin, has been out in the borough enjoying his first full day in office.

He took the seat from the Conservative's Richard Fuller, with a majority of almost 800 votes in Thursday's election.

Mohammad Yasin has lived in Bedford for more than 25 years and he was a Labour borough councillor for more than a decade.