Keir Starmer is appointing his top team
Keir Starmer has become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown lost the 2010 general election. Following Labour’s landslide general election victory, he is now confirming who his cabinet will be.
The announcements are coming in throughout the afternoon. Here’s who has been appointed so far:
- Angela Rayner – Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Deputy Prime Minster.
- Rachel Reeves – Chancellor of the Exchequer
- David Lammy – Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Yvette Cooper – Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Pat McFadden – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- John Healey – Secretary of State for Defence
- Shabana Mahmood – Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
- Wes Streeting – Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- Bridget Phillipson – Secretary of State for Education
- Ed Miliband – Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Liz Kendall – Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Jonathan Reynolds – Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade
- Peter Kyle – Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Steve Reed – Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Lisa Mandy – Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Hilary Benn – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- Ian Murray – Secretary of State for Scotland
- Jo Stevens – Secretary of State for Wales
- Lucy Powell – Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons
- Baroness Smith of Basildon – Lord Privy Seal, and Leader of the House of Lords
- Alan Campbell – Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
- Darren Jones – Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- Richard Hermer – Attorney General
- Anneliese Dodds – Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Minister for Women and Equalities in the Department for Education
Non-cabinet appointments:
- Patrick Vallance – Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- James Timpson – Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice
- Ellie Reeves – Minister without Portfolio and Party Chair
- Douglas Alexander – Minister of State in the Department of Business and Trade
- Jacqui Smith – Minister of State in the Department of Education
- Dan Jarvis – Minister of State for Security in the Home Office
- Angela Eagle – Minister of State in the Home Office
- Jim McMahon – Minister of State in the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Matthew Pennycock – Minister of State in the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Nick Thomas Symonds – Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
- Baron Livermore – Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Stephen Timms – Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions
This article will be updated as the cabinet and junior ministerial positions are announced.
Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward
Image credit: Keir Starmer – Creative Commons
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