Sir Keir Starmer is appointing his new Cabinet after Labour swept to a landslide victory in the General Election.
Sir Keir Starmer is selecting his new Cabinet after Labour swept to a landslide victory in the General Election.– Angela Rayner – Deputy Prime Minister and Levelling Up, Housing and Communities SecretaryAs Labour’s new Red Queen, many will now be looking to Angela Rayner, like John Prescott before her, to serve as custodian of the party’s traditional values in the face of a modernising leadership.
But she also made clear where her priorities were. “Glamorous and exciting are probably not two things you’d want from someone in charge of public finances – you want someone who’s steady, who’s serious, who’s responsible,” she told The Guardian. Against the daunting backdrop of a sluggish economy and competing demands for public spending, Britain’s first ever female Chancellor will be responsible for sticking to Labour’s strict fiscal rules while implementing a series of tax hikes – hitting wealthy non-doms, oil and gas giants and private schools – to help fund its plans for improved public services.
Her marriage to Ed Balls, Gordon Brown’s close confidant, made them the first couple to sit in Cabinet together. Mr McFadden gives little away in interviews but is seen as a centre-left figure, having attended Mr Brown’s cabinet and worked as an adviser to Tony Blair. He has spoken of the fear and embarrassment he felt when he was first stopped and searched at the age of just 12, and made his name in politics campaigning against racial injustice and the profiling of black and ethnic minority groups.
In Government, the brief puts him at the helm of UK diplomacy during a time of increasing global instability.From a family acquainted with the Kray twins to Labour’s frontbench via Cambridge University, Wes Streeting’s journey to frontline politics has been anything but ordinary. Aged just 26, she went on to become MP for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2010 after working for several years at the women’s refuge her mother founded.
Theresa May was later accused of making a number of his policies her own when she became Tory prime minister in 2017, opting to cap energy prices and abolish estate agent fees for renters. She set out a tough stance on welfare in a speech earlier this year, during which she said there would be “no option for a life on benefits” for people who can work under Labour.
Ms Mahmood is seen as a key ally of fellow former lawyer Sir Keir and is credited with playing a key part in preparing the party’s campaign machine. But a question mark still hangs over how Labour would oversee the defence budget, with the party having pledged to reach a spending target of 2.5% only when “economic conditions allow”.Alongside Ms Reeves, new Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has been at the forefront of Labour’s efforts to redraw its relationship with the City.
Mr Kyle struggled with dyslexia growing up and has spoken of leaving school without many qualifications before being told while at university that he had a reading age of eight – though he overcame this to gain a doctoral degree. Wigan MP Lisa Nandy has been appointed Culture Secretary, a role that had been earmarked for former frontbencher Thangam Debbonaire before she lost her Commons seat to the Greens.
During the 2020 leadership race in which she came third, Ms Nandy criticised “anti-media and anti-BBC feeling” and said she would protect the licence fee if she ever became prime minister.Steve Reed won the seat of Croydon North in a 2012 by-election and served as shadow justice secretary from 2021 until he was moved to the environment brief last year.
Like his father, he is teetotal and vegetarian. Unlike his father, Mr Benn supported the Iraq War while serving in the Blair government, and later, while shadow foreign secretary, defied then-leader Mr Corbyn to back military action against so-called Islamic State in Syria.
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