Newly-elected UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has made his first set of appointments into the cabinet, BBC reports Friday.
This comes after his centre-left Labour Party won a resounding general election, ending 14 years of Conservative administration.
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Starmer became the party’s first prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010, and was requested by King Charles III to form a government during a meeting at Buckingham Palace on Friday.
Below is the list of the 10 new cabinet members:
- Angela Rayner – Deputy Prime Minister
- Rachel Reeves – Chancellor
- David Lammy – Foreign Secretary
- Yvette Cooper – Home Secretary
- John Healey – Defence Secretary
- Pat McFadden– Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Ed Miliband – Energy Secretary
- Bridget Phillipson – Education Secretary
- Wes Streeting – Health Secretary
- Shabana Mahmood – Justice Secretary