Changes Afoot in May’s Cabinet 

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would announce changes to her ministerial team soon, with media reports saying her foreign, finance, interior and Brexit ministers would keep their jobs in a reshuffle starting on Monday.

After running a poorly-received campaign at a national election last year that badly damaged her authority, May is leading a delicately balanced minority government tasked with delivering Britain’s exit from the European Union. She is also under pressure to tackle a range of domestic policy problems, Reuters reported.

May said ministerial changes were necessary following the departure of her long-standing ally and de-facto deputy prime minister Damian Green, who she forced to resign in December after he made misleading statements about pornography found on an office computer.

“Obviously, Damian Green’s departure before Christmas means that some changes do have to be made, and I will be making some changes,” she told the BBC in an interview filmed on Saturday for broadcast on Sunday.

May said the reshuffle would come soon, but did not give any further details.

The Sunday Times said foreign minister Boris Johnson, finance minister Philip Hammond, interior minister Amber Rudd and Brexit minister David Davis would not lose their jobs in the reshuffle. The report did not cite its sources.

May is also expected to announce a new first secretary of state to replace Green—an important post with responsibility for maintaining unity in a cabinet still divided over the best approach to Brexit.

The Sunday Times said changes were aimed at bringing younger women and non-white lawmakers into the cabinet in attempt to appeal to improve the party’s image and regenerate support among voters.

May also said she was abandoning plans to give lawmakers a vote on overturning a ban on fox hunting with dogs—one of several promises she made during last year’s snap election which went down badly with voters.

May earned plaudits in Europe and at home in December by securing progress in the complicated process of leaving the European Union, but her government has been criticized in recent days for rising rail fares and postponed hospital operations.

The Conservative Party is running neck and neck with the left-wing Labour Party in opinion polls and has been split by differences about what kind of relationship Britain should seek with the EU after it leaves the bloc in 2019.

The Sunday Times said the ministers who were expected to lose their jobs or move to different roles included Conservative Party chairman Patrick McLoughlin, education minister Justine Greening, business minister Greg Clark and Andrea Leadsom, the government’s leader in the lower house of parliament.

***NHS Crisis

May defended her handling of the National Health Service and said the Government has "put the money in that was asked for", Sky News reported.

The Prime Minister has come under fire as the winter crisis has seen delays to admissions and tens of thousands of operations being cancelled amid unprecedented pressure on hospitals.

Health service bosses have said the NHS is at "bursting point".

But May said there were winter pressures "every year", adding: "The NHS has actually been better prepared for this winter pressures than it ever has been before."

On the subject of the delays to NHS services, the PM told the said cancelling operations was "part of the plan".

"Of course we want to ensure that those operations can be reinstated as soon as possible, but it’s about making sure that those who most urgently need care are able to get that treatment when they need it," she said.

May was challenged about the case of Leah Butler-Smith, who waited more than four hours in an ambulance with her mother—who had suffered a stroke—at Broomfield Hospital in Essex.

she said that "of course nothing's perfect and there is more for us to do".