Andy Burnham's cabinet -- who's in and who's out as Reeves sacked as chancellor

John Healey has been appointed chancellor and Ed Miliband as the new foreign secretary as new prime minister Andy Burnham appoints his new cabinet. Rachel Reeves and David Lammy are among a number of senior ministers set to leave government after Sir Keir Starmer tendered his resignation to the King earlier on Monday. Shabana Mahmood will remain as Home Secretary. Former foreign minister Yvette Cooper has been made health minister. Ahead of the major reshuffle, business secretary Peter Kyle, and housing secretary Steve Reed, earlier resigned. Allies of Ms Reeves have said that she was offered a 'big job' in government but decided to decline it. In her resignation statement, she wished 'the very best of luck' to her successor, Mr Burnham and his cabinet. She wrote: 'It has been the privilege of my life to serve as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The economy today is stronger, fairer and more resilient because of the choices we have taken as a Labour Government over the past two years.' Delivering his inaugural speech on the steps of Number 10, Mr Burnham urged people to 'build a new national sense of unity, of common purpose and positivity.' 'Let us make this the moment when Britain starts to believe again, the moment we bring back hope,' he said. He added: 'I am acutely conscious that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to walk up this street, the seventh prime minister since 2016, making this a moment for reflection and new resolution. It requires my generation of politicians to raise our game and rise to the new challenge.'