New PM Starmer names ministerial team after landslide UK election win
Al Jazeera
Rachel Reeves becomes the UK’s first female finance minister while David Lammy is appointed as foreign secretary.
The United Kingdom’s newly elected Keir Starmer has announced key members of his ministerial team after his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory ended 14 years of Conservative rule.
Starmer on Friday appointed Rachel Reeves as finance minister, the first woman to hold the post in UK history. The former child chess champion and Bank of England economist has pledged to grow the nation’s economy while showing strong fiscal discipline.
“It is the honour of my life to have been appointed chancellor of the exchequer,” Reeves wrote on social media platform X.
“To every young girl and woman reading this, let today show that there should be no limits on your ambitions.”
Starmer appointed David Lammy, a trailblazing lawmaker, as foreign secretary.
