KEIR Starmer is the Prime Minister of the UK, and has now appointed his Cabinet as he forms a Labour government.
Wes Streeting, who has been touted as a potential future leader of the Labour Party, narrowly retained his seat by a margin of just 528 votes, just about paving the way for him to be made Health Secretary.
He joins Starmer's Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner in the Cabinet, with her also taking up the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities portfolio.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has also scooped up a top job, being appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
See the full list of appointments below:
The full cabinet list has not yet been announced as complete, but here are all the announcements so far:
- Angela Rayner - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister
- Rachel Reeves - Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Lucy Powell - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
- Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon - Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
- Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales
- Hilary Benn - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- Ian Murray - Secretary of State for Scotland
- Lisa Nandy - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Liz Kendall - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Louise Haigh - Secretary of State for Transport
- Steve Reed - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- 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
- Shabana Mahmood - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
- John Healey - Secretary of State for Defence
- Yvette Cooper - Secretary of State for the Home Department
- David Lammy - Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Pat McFadden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Jonathon Reynolds - Secretary of State for Business and Trade and president of the Board of Trade
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Sir Patrick Vallance - Minister of State for Science and a peer
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James Timpson made Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation and a peer
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