Incoming Prime Minister makes sweeping changes as he sacks Starmer loyalists and appoints new team
Andy Burnham has taken over from Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister (Image: Getty)
Andy Burnham is appointing a new Cabinet after sacking ministers who served under his predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer.
The Makerfield MP became Prime Minister on Monday, promising the biggest political and economic change in 40 years.
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He said he would bring “life’s essentials back under stronger public control” to make them more affordable for the public.
Mr Burnham added: “I know people at home are fed up with politics. I hear you, and I want to be honest with you. We have not been good enough, and we need to be better. We will be.
“We will make this moment a circuit-breaker for Britain, bringing forward the biggest changes in the last 40 years. A new political model and a new economic model.”
But who has made it in and has been given the boot?
Who’s in?
- Louise Haigh – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- John Healey – Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Ed Miliband – Foreign Secretary
- Shabana Mahmood – Home Secretary
- Wes Streeting – Defence Secretary
- Alex Norris – Justice Secretary
- Yvette Cooper – Health Secretary
- Lucy Powell – Education Secretary
- Angela Rayner – Housing Secretary
- Miatta Fahnbulleh – Energy & Net Zero Secretary
- Pat McFadden – Work and Pensions Secretary
- Johnathan Reynolds – Business Secretary
- Heidi Alexander – Transport Secretary
- Angela Eagle – DEFRA Secretary
- Lisa Nandy – Culture Secretary
- Chris Bryant – Northern Ireland Secretary
- Douglas Alexander – Scotland Secretary
- Stephen Kinnock – Wales Secretary
- The Baroness Smith of Basildon – Leader of the House of Lords
- Anneliese Midgley – Chief Whip
- Bridget Phillipson – Women and Equalities Minister
- Emma Reynolds – Chief Secretary ot the Treasury
- Ellie Reeves – Attorney General
Andy Burnham (Image: Getty)
Who’s out?
- David Lammy
- Rachel Reeves
- Darren Jones
- Steve Reed
- Peter Kyle
- Liz Kendall
- Hilary Benn
- Jo Stevens
- Lord Hermer
- Nick Thomas-Symonds
- Dan Jarvis
- James Murray
- Lucy Rigby
- Baroness Chapman
- Anna Turley
