1h 11min, jul 5, 2024 y - Keir Starmer Announced as New PM

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his cabinet, with Rachel Reeves becoming the UK's first female chancellor

Angela Rayner is made deputy prime minister, Yvette Cooper becomes home secretary and David Lammy is the new foreign secretary

Wes Streeting, the new health secretary, says "the NHS is broken" and that talks on the junior doctor pay dispute will begin next week

Starmer vows to restore trust in politics and build a "government of service", in his first speech as prime minister

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