Who’s Who in the UK Government after Keir Starmer Reshuffle?

It’s official: the UK Government has been reset.

Keir Starmer had made tweaks to his team before a tax row forced the resignation of Angela Rayner as deputy prime minister, but her exit prompted serious change to the cabinet, ministers and other key roles.

Ian Murray was one of the first casualties, losing his role as Scottish secretary to Labour grandee and Blair/Brown veteran Douglas Alexander, a previous incumbent who returned to parliament last year after a near-decade gap. Kirsty McNeill, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for Scotland, remains in place.

Murray, who was twice the only Labour MP in Scotland after colleagues lost their seats, has accepted a demoted role as a minister of state in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

That appointment follows a backlash from Scottish Labour over the Scotland Office sacking of a man who is widely regarded as a party stalwart and a figure who has been instrumental to its resurgence.

But Murray is far from the only Scottish MP to move into a new role, with several of the ‘class of 2024’ moving from the backbenches. So who is who in the UK Government now?

Scot Squad

• Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for Scotland: Return to the role for the MP who was famously ousted by the SNP’s Mhairi Black in 2015
• Michael Shanks, minister of state, Department for Business and Trade and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Labour’s Rutherglen by-election hero takes on more responsibility
• Ian Murray, minister of state, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Edinburgh South MP shifts brief entirely
• Zubir Ahmed, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department of Health and Social Care: Glasgow-based doctor now working on the direction of healthcare in England
• Blair McDougall, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Business and Trade: Former Better Together strategist and party adviser enters government for the first time
• Martin McCluskey, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Former councillor moves from whips’ office to join Ed Miliband’s team
• Gregor Poynton and Imogen Walker, assistant whips, House of Commons: Livingston and Hamilton & Clyde Valley MPs tasked with keeping colleagues in line

Other appointments

• David Lammy, deputy prime minister, lord chancellor and justice secretary
• Darren Jones, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and chief secretary to the prime minister
• Yvette Cooper, foreign secretary
• Shabana Mahmood, home secretary
• Steve Reed, housing, communities and local government secretary
• Pat McFadden, work and pensions secretary
• Peter Kyle, business secretary and president of the Board of Trade
• Liz Kendall, science, innovation and technology secretary
• Emma Reynolds, environment, food and rural affairs secretary
• Jonathan Reynolds, parliamentary secretary to the Treasury (chief whip)
• Alan Campbell, leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council
• Jason Stockwood, minister for investment
• Dan Jarvis, minister of state, Cabinet Office and Home Office
• Baroness Smith of Malvern, minister for skills
• Lord Vallance, minister of state, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
• Alison McGovern, minister of state, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Angela Eagle, minister of state, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Diana Johnson, minister of state, Department for Work and Pensions
• Sarah Jones, minister of state, Home Office
• Anna Turley, minister without portfolio, Cabinet Office
• Alex Norris, minister of state, Home Office
• Chris Bryant, minister of state, Department for Business and Trade
• Luke Pollard, minister of state, Ministry of Defence
• Georgia Gould, minister of state, Department for Education
• Ellie Reeves, Solicitor General
• Lucy Rigby, economic secretary to the Treasury
• Chris Ward, parliamentary secretary, Cabinet Office
• Seema Malhotra, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and minister for equalities, Department for Education
• Mike Tapp, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Home Office
• Louise Sandher-Jones, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Ministry of Defence
• Baroness Levitt KC, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Ministry of Justice
• Miatta Fahnbulleh, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Samantha Dixon, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Chris Elmore, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• Satvir Kaur and Josh Simons, parliamentary secretary, Cabinet Office
• Josh MacAlister, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Education
• Olivia Bailey, minister for equalities, Department for Education
• Kate Dearden, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Business and Trade
• Kanishka Narayan, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
• Anna McMorrin, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Wales Office
• Matthew Patrick, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Northern Ireland Office
• Katie White, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Keir Mather, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Transport
• Jake Richards, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Ministry of Justice and assistant whip, House of Commons
• Lilian Greenwood, Nesil Caliskan, Nic Dakin, Christian Wakeford, Stephen Morgan, Claire Hughes, government whips
• Mark Ferguson, Jade Botterill, Deirdre Costigan, assistant whips
• Lord Collins of Highbury, government whip and deputy leader of the House of Lords