New UK Prime Minister, Starmer Appoints Cabinet Members

Keir Starmer, the newly-elected UK Prime Minister, on Friday announced his first set of appointments into the cabinet.

This follows his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule.

Starmer arrived as the party’s first PM since Gordon Brown in 2010 and had been asked by King Charles III to form a government during a meeting at Buckingham Palace on Friday.

Below is the list of the new cabinet members;

• Angela Rayner – Deputy Prime Minister
• Rachel Reeves – Chancellor
• David Lammy – Foreign Secretary
• Yvette Cooper – Home Secretary
• Pat McFadden– Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Shabana Mahmood – Justice Secretary
• Wes Streeting – Health Secretary
• Bridget Phillipson – Education Secretary
• Ed Miliband – Energy Secretary
• Peter Kyle – Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary
• Louise Haigh – Transport Secretary
• Liz Kendall – Work and Pensions Secretary
• Jonathan Reynolds – Business and Trade Secretary
• John Healey – Defence Secretary
• Steve Reed – Environment Secretary
• Lisa Nandy – Culture, Media and Sport Secretary
• Hilary Benn – Northern Ireland Secretary
• Ian Murray – Scotland Secretary
• Jo Stevens – Wales Secretary