New MPs Fast-Tracked to Ministerial Roles in Starmer's Government
Five newly elected MPs, including the daughter of a key Blair adviser, take on significant positions in an unprecedented move.
- Georgia Gould, daughter of Tony Blair's strategist, is appointed parliamentary secretary in the Cabinet Office.
- Colonel Al Carns, a decorated Royal Marine, becomes the new veterans minister but will not attend cabinet.
- Miatta Fahnbulleh, former head of the New Economics Foundation, is named energy minister.
- Sarah Sackman, a Harvard-educated barrister, is appointed solicitor general for England and Wales.
- Kirsty McNeill, a former adviser to Gordon Brown, takes a junior minister role in the Scotland Office.