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Changes from Starmer's final Shadow Cabinet to Cabinet.. Thangam Debbonaire (Shadow Culture Secretary) lost her seat and Lisa Nandy was appointed in her place.; Nandy's role (Shadow International Development Cabinet Minister) was a full member of Shadow Cabinet despite the department having merged into the Foreign Office under the previous government and not reformed by Starmer.
Keir Starmer assumed the position of Leader of the Opposition after being elected as leader of the Labour Party on 4 April 2020; the election was triggered by Jeremy Corbyn's resignation following the Labour Party's electoral defeat at the 2019 general election when Boris Johnson formed a majority Conservative government.
Keir Starmer's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 5 July 2024 when he accepted an invitation from King Charles III to form a government, succeeding Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party. As prime minister, Starmer is serving concurrently as First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union.
Sir Keir Starmer is selecting his new Cabinet after Labour swept to a landslide victory in the General Election. Here, the PA news agency looks at the appointments so far:
The MP for Sheffield Heeley survived Sir Keir’s 2023 reshuffle, which saw a host of Blairite figures promoted or ushered in to the shadow cabinet, despite being regarded as a standard-bearer of ...
Starmer was described as demoting figures from the soft left of the party and promoting in their place his loyalists as well as Blairites. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] While there were leading figures on the soft left who remained in the shadow cabinet, such as Ed Miliband , Louise Haigh and Angela Rayner, the faction was thought to have lost most of ...
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Keir Rodney Starmer was born on 2 September 1962, at Southwark in south east London, [1] [2] [3] and grew up in the town of Oxted, Surrey. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was the second of the four children of Josephine ( née Baker ), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker .