Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob's new cabinet line-up has not impressed ex-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad who panned the failure to break from the past.

Mahathir described the new cabinet as the "same cabinet" put together by Ismail Sabri's immediate predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin.

"I find that there is not much difference from Muhyiddin's cabinet.

"The same people were appointed...