Who is in Keir Starmer’s new Labour Cabinet Office?

Lucy Leeson

5 July 2024 at 1:42 pm

Sir Keir Starmer got straight to work assembling his Cabinet Office after promising to rebuild trust in politics and restore hope to the nation after a landslide Labour victory in the general election.

Rachel Reeves has been confirmed as Britain’s first woman chancellor of the Exchequer, Angela Rayner is Sir Keir’sdeputy prime minister and retained the levelling up, housing and communities brief, and Yvette Cooper is home secretary.

David Lammy takes the roll of foreign secretary.

The Independent takes a closer look at the team at the top

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