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Here is the full list of the new-look <\/strong>cabinet.<\/strong><\/p>\n David Lammy will be justice secretary and deputy prime minister<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Yvette Cooper will be foreign secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Shabana Mahmood will be home secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Darren Jones will be chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and retains his new role as chief secretary to the prime minister<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Steve Reed will be housing secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Peter Kyle will be business secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Liz Kendall will be science secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Emma Reynolds will be environment secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Douglas Alexander will be Scotland secretary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Jonathan Reynolds will be chief whip<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Alan Campbell will be leader of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.34 EDT<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Nigel Farage has said there is every chance of a general election in 2027 and declared at Reform\u2019s conference in Birmingham that he will run on a pledge to \u2018stop the boats\u2019 within two weeks of entering No 10.<\/p>\n <\/span>‘That was just the beginning’: Reform UK conference arrives in Birmingham \u2013 video<\/span>SharePippa Crerar<\/span><\/p>\n Keir Starmer is battling to get a grip on the crisis that has engulfed his government with his deputy prime minister Angela Rayner forced to step down after breaching the ministerial code over her tax arrangements.<\/p>\n The prime minister brought forward a major cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to restore order and get back on the front foot after a damaging few days with Yvette Cooper, David Lammy and Shabana Mahmood all moved to prominent new roles.<\/p>\n However, the fallout from the controversy over Rayner, who as housing secretary underpaid about \u00a340,000 stamp duty on her seaside flat, is likely to further damage Labour\u2019s already battered reputation, as it struggles to take on the challenge from Reform UK.<\/p>\n With Rayner standing down from all three of her roles \u2013 which also included deputy leader of the Labour party \u2013 Downing Street is now braced for a bruising internal party contest to replace her, which frustrated MPs could use to try to force Starmer into a change of direction.<\/p>\n It comes just days after Downing Street attempted a reset after a difficult summer recess, during which Nigel Farage and migration policy dominated the headlines, and ahead of a tough autumn during which Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is expected to raise taxes to balance the nation\u2019s books.<\/p>\n In his ruling, ethics watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus found that Rayner had \u201cacted with integrity and with a dedicated and exemplary commitment to public service\u201d but concluded she had breached the ministerial code over her tax affairs.<\/p>\n In her resignation letter, Rayner said that she \u201cdeeply regrets\u201d her decision not to seek additional specialist tax advice over her purchase of the property in Hove, East Sussex, earlier this year.<\/p>\n ShareHaroon Siddique<\/span><\/p>\n Defend Our Juries, which has organised protests to oppose the ban on Palestine Action, proscribed by Yvette Cooper under the Terrorism Act in July, has said that her departure as home secretary should also herald an end to the ban. A spokesperson said:<\/p>\n \u201cYvette Cooper being removed as home secretary is no surprise given the huge political error she made by proscribing Palestine Action, attracting condemnation and ridicule from across the political spectrum here and around the world and making the UK an international embarrassment.<\/p>\n \u201cDue to her disastrous decision, over 720 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding cardboard signs \u2013 an utterly absurd and unjustifiable waste of resources. This never before attack on free speech in our country\u2019s history, which borrows from the playbook of some of the world\u2019s most repressive regimes, will see her go down as one of the UK\u2019s worst home secretaries.<\/p>\n \u201cOver 1,000 people have pledged to defy the ban in Parliament Square again tomorrow, as well as others across the UK. If the police arrest them all, there will be four times more counter terrorism arrests in one day, than there was in the whole of last year. This is how dictatorships behave \u2013 not democracies.<\/p>\n \u201cYvette Cooper\u2019s ban on Palestine Action has spectacularly backfired for her and the government. Now, she\u2019s been removed as home secretary, the proscription of Palestine Action must go with her.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.59 EDT<\/p>\n James Cleverly, shadow secretary for housing, communities and local government, wrote on X: \u201cSo many sideways moves in this reshuffle.<\/p>\n \u201cStarmer can\u2019t claim it\u2019s about promoting new talent, or about removing deadwood.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it can only be that he put people into the wrong jobs last year.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.42 EDT<\/p>\n Following the appointment of Yvette Cooper as the new foreign secretary, the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association said: \u201cAs an organisation that has pioneered the delivery of high impact, low cost, sustainable global health development schemes in Africa and Asia with the generous support of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office over the last half decade, CPA asks the new secretary of state to meet with organisations like ours to explore new models of delivering international aid programmes at a time of financial pressure.<\/p>\n \u201cProgrammes which invest in enhancing workforce capability, developing the skills and expertise of professionals, and improving access to vital healthcare resources like preventative medicines can have an outsized impact on global health outcomes for a much lower cost than \u2018traditional\u2019 aid programmes. CPA is a leader in delivering high-impact, innovative and cost effective work in this space.<\/p>\n \u201cWe urge the new foreign secretary to engage with key stakeholders to explore how the UK\u2019s official development assistant schemes can continue to save lives \u2013 directly around the world and indirectly in the UK through mitigation of infectious diseases and epidemics that respect no national border \u2013 despite the fiscal challenges the government faces.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.42 EDT<\/p>\n Richard Adams<\/span><\/p>\n The reshuffle\u2019s decision to move the skills ministerial brief from the Department for Education and hand it to Pat McFadden at the Department for Work and Pensions has caused some head-scratching in the education sector as we await further details about who is doing what.<\/p>\n Previously, Jacqui Smith was the skills minister at the DfE, which under Labour included universities and higher education in England as well as further education and apprenticeships.<\/p>\n But the announcement that McFadden will now take skills raises various possibilities that need clarification. The DfE is likely to want to keep higher education, and offload apprenticeships and lifelong learning. But that raises the prospect of 16-19 education and FE colleges being administered by the DWP. To complicate matters, a skills white paper is on the way although that is likely to be pushed back.<\/p>\n The National Centre for Universities and Business said: \u201cEarly clarity on how skills policy will be coordinated across departments and aligned with employers\u2019 needs will be critical. Universities and businesses together are central to equipping people with the skills for the future economy.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, said: \u201cI want thank my friend Ian Murray for his service as Secretary of State for Scotland.<\/p>\n \u201cIan held our party together during the most difficult and dark times.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to congratulate Douglas Alexander on his appointment as the new secretary of state for Scotland.<\/p>\n \u201cI know Douglas will use his experience, knowledge and skills to demonstrate that a UK Labour government is delivering for Scotland.<\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to campaigning with Ian and Douglas to end the managed decline of Scotland under the SNP and chart a new direction for Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n Alexander said: \u201cA UK Labour government has already shown what change looks like: ending Tory austerity, giving 200,000 of Scotland\u2019s lowest-paid workers a pay rise, championing Scotland\u2019s business with world beating trade deals and delivering the largest budget settlement in the history of devolution.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the SNP continue to squander that investment \u2013 and we must end two decades of SNP incompetence next year.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I look forward to working with Anas Sarwar to earn the trust of the people of Scotland and electing a Scottish Labour government that delivers the new direction Scotland needs.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.19 EDT<\/p>\n Ben Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n Wrapped in a union flag and clad head to foot in red, white and blue as she took in the full spectacle of Reform UK\u2019s conference, Kim Anderson was enjoying meeting like-minded Nigel Farage supporters in the flesh.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you were to ask me if politics is a big part of my life, I would say it is and it isn\u2019t, but I can spend all day commenting on the GB News website. You find that if you say things in a certain way then you can say anything you like,\u201d said Anderson, a retired former ambulance worker and one-time Labour voter who had enthusiastically now thrown her lot in with Reform.<\/p>\n In Hethersett, near Norwich, where she lives, Anderson spoke of having to be cautious about expressing her views, adding: \u201cYou can normally judge what people are going to say, but you do have to watch what you say, you can find yourself shut down or they walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.17 EDT<\/p>\n Following Yvette Cooper\u2019s appointment as the new foreign secretary, Care International UK\u2019s chief executive, Helen McEachern: said: \u201cHer appointment comes at a moment of deep global crises for women and girls as attacks on their rights increase and intensify.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to working with the secretary of state to challenge this rollback, and urge her to make choices that protect aid funding for women and girls and ensure the UK is a strong advocate for global gender equality.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.18 EDT<\/p>\n Pippa Crerar<\/span><\/p>\n At 9.30am on Monday morning, as MPs made their way back to Westminster, Keir Starmer gathered the entire staff of No 10 in the Pillared Room of Downing Street to tell them they were about to enter the next, delivery, stage of government.<\/p>\n \u201cWe go into phase two in good spirits, confident and with conviction,\u201d he told them, as some of those gathered shuffled awkwardly. His remarks, after all, followed a difficult summer during which Labour vacated the pitch to Reform UK and ahead of what is likely to be an even more turbulent autumn.<\/p>\n With Starmer desperately needing to show he could get a grip on government, the rest of his big reset week could not have gone more badly. The departure of his deputy, Angela Rayner, is the most serious blow yet for the already beleaguered prime minister.<\/p>\n In interviews, Rayner often described Starmer as \u201cthe yin to my yang\u201d, explaining how the odd couple of British politics may not have run on a joint ticket for leader and deputy, but they were so complementary they might as well have done.<\/p>\n She was everything that Starmer is not. Politically intuitive. A powerful communicator. An authentic working-class voice. Savage Reform attack dog. Popular with MPs, members and unions. Party fixer. Despite a sometimes bumpy relationship, Rayner\u2019s absence will be keenly felt.\u201d<\/p>\n ShareBen Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n The far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson has been disparaged for his comments on \u201crape gangs\u201d but has been proven to be correct, Reform UK\u2019s Zia Yusuf told the party\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n Yusuf, who was named as by Nigel Farage on Friday as the party\u2019s new head of policy, was in discussion with the former Tory minister and current editor of the Spectator Michael Gove at a fringe event when he made the comments.<\/p>\n During a question-and-answer session Yusuf appeared to refer to the track record of Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, when it came to the issue of grooming gangs in some parts of Britain.<\/p>\n \u201cTommy Robinson has said things about the rape gangs for years, and was making those arguments for years, and was disparaged, and has been proven to be correct on those matters, and deserves some credit for that,\u201d said Yusuf.<\/p>\n Asked by Gove if Robinson could ever join Reform, Yusuf replied: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n Yusuf was also asked by Gove, who was worse, Robinson or the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n Yusuf replied: \u201cAbsolutely the worst is Jeremy Corbyn.\u201d<\/p>\n Reform UK has previously faced a schism over its approach to Robinson\u2019s supporters, after two high-profile party figures said in the past it was wrong to disavow those who went to a weekend rally backing the far-right figure.<\/p>\n Richard Tice, the party\u2019s deputy leader, said last year that the party \u201cwant nothing to do with\u201d Robinson and \u201call of that lot\u201d. Farage also said after the summer riots that he had never had anything to do with \u201cthe Tommy Robinsons and those who genuinely do stir up hatred\u201d.<\/p>\n But two high-profile 2024 candidates, Howard Cox and Ben Habib, took a different position, saying those who attended a major rally organised by Robinson were some of Reform\u2019s own people. Both Cox and Habib later quit the party.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.52 EDT<\/p>\n Commenting on the appointment of David Lammy as justice secretary, Katie Kempen, chief executive of Victim Support, said: \u201cWe would like to congratulate David Lammy on his appointment as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He takes on this role at a critical moment for victims, who are navigating a broken justice system at a time when vital support services face devastating funding cuts.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to working with him to build a justice system that truly delivers for victims, and to seize this opportunity to commit to long-term, sustainable funding for services, so that every victim receives the support and respect they need and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Reacting to Shabana Mahmood\u2019s appointment as home secretary, Refugee Council chief executive Enver Solomon said Mahmood still faces significant challenges despite \u201cimportant progress\u201d made by her predecessor Yvette Cooper.<\/p>\n Solomon said: \u201cIt is vital she quickly gets to grips with a long to-do list that includes rapidly ending the use of asylum hotels, speeding up decision making for asylum applications and expanding safe and legal pathways for refugees fleeing conflict to reach the UK safely.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the full list of the new-look cabinet. 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