New UK PM Makes 10 Cabinet Appointments

Newly-elected UK Prime Minister, KeIr Starmer, has made his first set of appointments into the cabinet, BBC reports Friday.



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 10 new cabinet members:


Angela Rayner – Deputy Prime MinisterRachel Reeves – ChancellorDavid Lammy – Foreign SecretaryYvette Cooper – Home SecretaryJohn Healey – Defence SecretaryPat McFadden– Chancellor of the Duchy of LancasterEd Miliband – Energy SecretaryBridget Phillipson – Education SecretaryWes Streeting – Health SecretaryShabana Mahmood – Justice Secretary


Details later…


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