Starmer ministry

July 2024 – present

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Starmer Cabinet^[10][11]

Post	Portrait	Incumbent	Seat	Term
Cabinet ministers
Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Minister for the Civil Service Minister for the Union		Sir Keir Starmer	Holborn and St Pancras	5 July 2024 – present
Deputy Prime Minister Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government		Angela Rayner	Ashton-under-Lyne	5 July 2024 – present
Chancellor of the Exchequer Second Lord of the Treasury		Rachel Reeves	Leeds West and Pudsey	5 July 2024 – present
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Minister for Intergovernmental Relations		Pat McFadden	Wolverhampton South East	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs		David Lammy	Tottenham	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for the Home Department		Yvette Cooper	Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Defence		John Healey	Rawmarsh and Conisbrough	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Justice Lord Chancellor		Shabana Mahmood	Birmingham Ladywood	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care		Wes Streeting	Ilford North	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Education		Bridget Phillipson	Houghton and Sunderland South	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero		Ed Miliband	Doncaster North	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions		Liz Kendall	Leicester West	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Business and Trade President of the Board of Trade		Jonathan Reynolds	Stalybridge and Hyde	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology		Peter Kyle	Hove and Portslade	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Transport		Louise Haigh	Sheffield Heeley	5 July 2024 – 29 November 2024
		Heidi Alexander	Swindon South	29 November 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs		Steve Reed	Streatham and Croydon North	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport		Lisa Nandy	Wigan	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland		Hilary Benn	Leeds South	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Scotland		Ian Murray	Edinburgh South	5 July 2024 – present
Secretary of State for Wales		Jo Stevens	Cardiff East	5 July 2024 – present
Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council		Lucy Powell	Manchester Central	5 July 2024 – present
Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal		Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon	Life peer	5 July 2024 – present
Also attending Cabinet
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Chief Whip of the House of Commons		Sir Alan Campbell	Tynemouth	5 July 2024 – present
Chief Secretary to the Treasury		Darren Jones	Bristol North West	5 July 2024 – present
Attorney General for England and Wales Advocate General for Northern Ireland		Richard Hermer, Baron Hermer	Life peer	5 July 2024 – present
Minister of State for Development Minister of State for Women and Equalities		Anneliese Dodds	Oxford East	8 July 2024 – 28 February 2025
Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean		Jenny Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington	Life peer	28 February 2025 – present
Minister without Portfolio Chair of the Labour Party		Ellie Reeves (unpaid)	Lewisham West and East Dulwich	2 December 2024 – present

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Changes

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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. Anneliese Dodds attends Cabinet as Minister of State for Development.
• Dodds served in Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary and party chair, and she is also the junior Minister of State for Women and Equalities, while Bridget Phillipson succeeds her as the senior Minister for Women and Equalities.^[12][13]
• Ellie Reeves (Deputy National Campaign Coordinator) was a member of Shadow Cabinet in her previous role that has no government counterpart, and was appointed to succeed Dodds' role as party chair and Minister without Portfolio outside Cabinet.
• Jonathan Ashworth (Shadow Paymaster General) lost his seat. Nick Thomas-Symonds (Shadow Minister without Portfolio) was appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office as well as Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations, but will not attend Cabinet.^[13]
• Emily Thornberry (Shadow Attorney General) was not appointed to Cabinet nor any junior ministerial role and returns to the backbenches. Richard Hermer was appointed Attorney General from outside parliament and will be given a life peerage to the House of Lords to serve.
• Hermer (Attorney General), Alan Campbell (Commons Chief Whip) and Darren Jones (Chief Secretary to the Treasury) merely attend Cabinet, roles that were full members of the Shadow Cabinet.
• Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lords Chief Whip) was a member of Shadow Cabinet, but he not was appointed to Cabinet while remaining in the same role.

  Changes from Autumn 2024 reshuffle.

• Louise Haigh resigned as Transport Secretary on 28 November 2024, and was replaced by Heidi Alexander the following day.^[14]
• Ellie Reeves was promoted to attend Cabinet in her existing role as Minister without Portfolio on 2 December 2024.^[15]
• Anneliese Dodds resigned as Minister of State for Development and Minister for Women and Equalities on 28 February 2025.^[16]

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Ministers

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Minister (Cabinet members shown in bold)		Office	Date of resignation	Reason
	Louise Haigh	Secretary of State for Transport	29 November 2024	Resigned after admitting she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence relating to misleading police in 2014[19]
	Tulip Siddiq	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	14 January 2025	Resigned over corruption investigation and links to the government of Sheikh Hasina[20]
	Andrew Gwynne	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention	8 February 2025	Sacked over comments posted on a WhatsApp group.[21]
	Anneliese Dodds	Minister of State for Development & Minister of State for Women and Equalities	28 February 2025	Resigned over Keir Starmer's decision to cut the foreign aid budget to 0.3% of GNI.[22]

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Non-ministerial appointments

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Name		Office	Date of resignation	Reason
	Sue Gray	Downing Street Chief of Staff	6 October 2024	Resigned amid intense commentary around her position[23]

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