He replaces Damian Hinds, who was one of 17 senior ministers who resigned or were sacked from Government yesterday by the new prime minister.
Mr Williamson was previously defence secretary, but was sacked in May following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.
The new education secretary was educated at a comprehensive in Yorkshire and studied at Bradford university.
The Prime Minister’s brother Jo Johnson MP becomes a minister of state (universities’ minister) in the Department for Education, as well as a minister in the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). He will also attend Cabinet.
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