Who are the team set to govern Britain under new PM Starmer?
Keir Starmer led Britain's Labour Party to a landslide victory in the 2024 parliamentary election, taking over from the Conservatives after 14 years in opposition.
Below are details on new Prime Minister Starmer and his freshly appointed team of senior ministers:
KEIR STARMER, PRIME MINISTER
Starmer, 61, took charge of Labour in 2020 following its worst electoral defeat in 84 years in 2019 under left-wing veteran Jeremy Corbyn. He has sought to develop Labour as a party of competence and pragmatism rather than one driven by an overriding ideology.
A former human rights lawyer who rose to become Britain's top prosecutor, Starmer was elected to parliament in 2015 and served in Corbyn's team as the spokesperson for Brexit.
In his first speech as the leader of the world's sixth largest economy, Starmer, who was named after the founder of the Labour Party, Keir Hardie, pledged action to fix the country, even as he warned that improvements would take time.
ANGELA RAYNER, DEPUTY PM
Rayner, 44, was elected as deputy leader by party members in 2020. Often outspoken in her attacks on the Conservative Party, she is seen as an important link to the party's grassroots thanks to her former career as a care worker and trade unionist prior to being elected as a lawmaker in 2015.
Rayner was named deputy prime minister in the new Labour government, and will also be the minister for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
RACHEL REEVES, FINANCE MINISTER
Reeves, 45, previously worked as an economist at the
