NEW: Shadow cabinet appointees

Big news Ed Miliband returns as Shadow Business, Energy and Industry Sec

- @DavidLammy: Shadow Justice Sec
- @JohnHealey_MP: Shadow Defence
- @EmilyThornberry: Shadow International Trade Sec
- @jreynoldsMP: Work and Pensions
- @RLong_Bailey: Education

More shadow cabinet appointees to @Keir_Starmer top team

- @JoStevensLabour: Culture, Media and Sport
- @bphillipsonMP: Shadow Chief Sec (first ever all female top 2 treasury team)
- @LukePollard: Envrionment, Food and Rural Affairs
- @SteveReedMP: Local govt
- @ThangamMP: Housing

. @JimfromOldham: Transport Sec
@PreetKGillMP: International Development
@IanMurrayMP:Scotland
@NiaGriffithMP:Wales
@MarshadeCordova: Women and equalities
@AndyMcDonaldMP: Employment rights
@DrRosena: mental health
@LordCFalconer: attorney general
@Valerie_VazMP: commons leader

Labour don’t have their first female permanent leader. However, Starmer’s shadow cabinet has 17 women and 15 men.

Instant analysis

Virtually all of the Corbynites, save for Long Bailey herself, have been dispatched: Burgon, Carden, Chakrabarti, Dowd, Lavery, Trickett etc

Factionally position of shadow cabinet has veered sharply away from left

Some of the bigger names on the back benches have also been overlooked, save for Miliband

In their place a series of appointments from more or less the centre of the PLP. Largely well liked, unshowy figures. Not unlike the leader himself...

Another of the great survivors, @LordCFalconer rejoins the shadow cabinet. Now served under Blair, Corbyn and Starmer...

List in full. We’ve been told that further appointments to the shadow front bench are to be made in the coming days.

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