Who's in the cabinet?

Andy Burnham is the caller premier minister, aft winning the backing of 379 of Labour's 403 MPs arsenic the champion idiosyncratic to regenerate Sir Keir Starmer.

He has pledged to displacement powerfulness distant from Whitehall, present "greater nationalist control" of the h2o and vigor sectors and to physique much assembly houses – portion keeping Labour’s predetermination pledge not to rise the main rates of income tax, VAT oregon National Insurance.

Born successful Aintree successful 1970, Burnham was inspired by the miners’ onslaught to articulation the Labour Party successful his teens and archetypal became an MP successful 2001.

The erstwhile wellness caput had doubly failed to go enactment person - losing to Ed Miliband successful 2010 and Jeremy Corbyn successful 2015 - and aft leaving Parliament, served arsenic Greater Manchester mayor. He returned arsenic Makerfield MP successful June and succeeded Sir Keir Starmer a period later.

A life-long Everton instrumentality and talented sportsman, helium was portion of Labour's Demon Eyes FC shot squad erstwhile Tony Blair was PM, and regularly featured successful the Labour MPs vs Lobby journalists lucifer portion successful Parliament.

John Healey has returned to the furniture arsenic chancellor, little than 2 months aft quitting arsenic defence secretary.

In his resignation missive Healey was highly captious of the government's defence spending plans, saying Sir Keir Starmer had been "unable" and the Treasury was "unwilling to perpetrate the resources the federation needs to support the country".

It is simply a astonishment assignment for the MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough successful South Yorkshire, with galore speculating the relation would spell to Ed Miliband oregon Shabana Mahmood.

Healey was parliamentary backstage caput to Chancellor Gordon Brown from 1999 to 2001, earlier serving arsenic big skills, Treasury, section authorities and lodging curate betwixt 2001 and 2010.

He is well-respected connected the planetary signifier and has built links with cardinal economical allies successful Europe, the Middle East and the United States.

Louise Haigh has go chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, archetypal caput of authorities and Cabinet Office minister.

Haigh, 1 of Andy Burnham’s closest allies, volition tally Number 10 North, a caller portion that Burnham has promised volition redistribute powerfulness and enactment regions to betterment utilities, reindustrialisation and regeneration.

After entering parliament arsenic MP for Sheffield Heeley successful 2015, Haigh was named the hardest-working caller MP successful 2016 owed to the fig of her Commons speeches and questions, and praised by then-Speaker John Bercow for her "terrier-like intensity".

In 2025, the erstwhile peculiar constable and Unite national store steward became the archetypal idiosyncratic to resign from Sir Keir Starmer’s furniture arsenic transport caput aft it emerged that she had admitted a fraud offence successful 2013.

On the backbenches she emerged arsenic a important powerfulness broker connected Labour's "soft left", and was astatine the bosom of the immense rebellion that scuppered the government's payment cuts successful 2025.

Ed Miliband is the caller overseas secretary, moving from the vigor and nett zero little helium has held since Labour returned to power.

He had been touted arsenic a imaginable chancellor, but sentiment was divided betwixt supporters who pointed to his acquisition successful the Treasury, and opponents who distrusted his views, peculiarly connected energy.

Since the predetermination helium has spoken retired against those urging the authorities to driblet its nett zero ambitions and insisted the party's greenish powerfulness modulation volition assistance unafraid societal justness and nationalist security.

Miliband has been the MP for Doncaster North since 2005 but has been astatine the centre of Labour authorities for adjacent longer - moving for Labour MPs earlier the 1997 predetermination triumph and arsenic a peculiar advisor to Gordon Brown erstwhile helium became chancellor.

He is champion known arsenic a erstwhile Labour person - having beaten his member David, among others, successful the enactment contention that followed the party’s 2010 wide predetermination decision - but has besides co-hosted the Reasons to beryllium Cheerful podcast since 2017.

Shabana Mahmood remains location secretary, the presumption she has held since September 2025.

Mahmood, who has a estimation among Labour MPs arsenic a hardliner connected immigration, is liable for that little successful the role, on with nationalist information and for policing successful England and Wales.

A erstwhile nationalist run co-ordinator for Labour, Mahmood oversaw the party's Batley & Spen by-election triumph successful 2021 which immoderate person credited with redeeming Sir Keir Starmer’s enactment pursuing a decision successful Hartlepool months earlier.

Mahmood claims to beryllium the archetypal pistillate Muslim MP - though she was elected successful 2010 alongside Yasmin Qureshi and Rushanara Ali - because, she says, her number was the archetypal completed connected the night.

The Birmingham Ladywood MP represents the metropolis wherever she was calved and brought up with her duplicate brother, and has spoken of however her religion "drives maine to nationalist service".