UK prime minister Keir Starmer names his cabinet after vowing to rebuild trust in politics

Keir Starmer speaks outside No 10 Downing Street on Friday. Picture: James Manning/PA

UK prime minister Keir Starmer got straight to work assembling his cabinet after promising to rebuild trust in politics and restore hope to the nation after a landslide Labour victory in the UK's general election.

Rachel Reeves was confirmed as Britain’s first woman chancellor, Angela Rayner will be deputy prime minister and retained the levelling up, housing and communities brief, and Yvette Cooper is home secretary.