Speculation: Who Will Be In Burnham's Cabinet?

Sarnia

I would like to see John Healey get a Cabinet job. He comes across as a decent and principled man, liked across all parties. Reeves has to go. I have never liked her but she really plumbed the depths on Monday when Sir Keir resigned. Instead of being in Downing Street, supporting the PM delivering his resignation speech, she was front and centre in Andy Burnham's selfie.

Agreed.

Nanna8 you need to read the room better from down under! Plus stop using nasty names for solid hard working people !
Of course you are entitled to air your views but it amazes me how insulting you can be towards such folk given you haven’t lived here for so long and chose to leave the UK possibly after receiving a decent start in life?
Not sure where you get your info from to make you such an expert on our politics! I don’t even know how many PMs you have had over the years! Albanese looks ok though from where I am sitting at the moment !!

He’s not going to be in the cabinet but have been reading up on James Purnell who Burnham is said to be taking on as an advisor. Ex CEO of a company called Flint who along with other companies advised water boards on investments etc. Rather a controversial appointment if it does happen…

I genuinely thought Miliband was Millibrand. Sorry. I have to fess up to the millipede one though.

Wyllow3

Why don't you like Ed Miliband?

I take it that you don’t expect an answer?

It’s RaynEr, not RaynOr or Raynham.

I dont want Raynham - but am willing to hear "why she would be good" beyond expediency

Who?.

Why don't you like Ed Miliband?

Ed Miliband should go….Siberia ,a good idea. There are a lot to choose from.Rachel Reeves…who?

Yes Casdon. She's a "steady as she goes" person.

I don’t think Burnham and Cooper have ever been besties Wyllow3, I remember a lot of clashes between them in the past. I also think she’s been loyal to Starmer, and she’s principled, so may not want to work under Burnham. I hope I’m wrong though.

Padstow13

But the Guardian is jumping the gun a bit - Burnham's prospective appointment isn't a Done Deal just yet!

However, I personally don't care too much who gets the job providing they banish the despicable Rachel Reeves to the back benches.

That'll do me!

Padstow 13, I agree with you. Rachel from accounts has to go

Louise Haigh will be back, in Transport. She was doing a good job and a good grasp of the overall issues as well as regards fighting for trains, decent stock and network issues for all of us in the North of England.

Milliband will stay. For goodness sake, does no one care about the climate anymore? He's not perfect but he's your genuine conviction caring on his issues.

Why should Cooper go if Burnham comes? She's a lot of experience an a sensible if not dramatic approach.

Reeves has to go, but I am not up on that side of things.

I dont want Raynham - but am willing to hear "why she would be good" beyond expediency.

Not much to choose from.

Generally of course PMs fill their Cabinets with their opponents

mum2three

Starmer surrounded himself with his supporters without considering their competence for their positions. Hopefully, Burnham will have a better attitude.
Presumably he will have discussed all this before he agreed to stand in the by-election.

Yes. I've often wondered why Sir Keir went to the trouble of levering his friend and ex colleague Hermer into the House of Lords so he could make him Attorney General. Will Lord Hermer have to go too? From what I read, his main area of interest was getting this Chagos Islands return done, and I wonder how Burnham feels about that.

Sorry CO2 beneath the seabed

I hope he brings back John Healey. I hope he doesn’t bring in Angela Raynor but suspect that he will. I quite like Lisa Nandy and I respect Jess Philips stand when she truly believes in something.
I hope most of all that the zealot Ed Miliband is sent to Siberia. Of course climate change needs to be addressed but not by a man with very little understanding of the science.
For example his backing for the dangerous, eye wateringly expensive and totally unnecessary Peak Cluster carbon capture pipeline which will carve up great swathes of countryside from Derbyshire to Wirral to bury carbon, created by outdated methods of cement production, beneath the seabed in Moecombe Bay where earth tremors are fairly common.

karmalady

Miliband
Raynor
Cooper

oh what talent!!

Not forgetting Louise Haigh and how about Tulip Saddique?

Lying seems to be a requisite to get a place in a Labour Cabinet.

The Independent are convinced it will be Miliband. They also said he will negotiate with Burnham re North sea drilling. As Burnham apparently wants that but Miliband promotes green issues.

Lilyflower

I look forwards to the smoking ruins...

Smoking ruins of what?

I look forwards to the smoking ruins...

I do think the LP has a better pool of talent than the far diminished pool of Conservative MPs in opposition. Reform UK as the previously perceived successor parry ( AB has turned around that perception at least ) has nowhere near enough talent to form a government.

So although the new PM will experience many knocks and a hard time- its new cabinet I feel will be better placed than the other parties to deal with the enormous challenges any government would face right now.

We do not know for sure he will be PM- yet to see if other contenders come forward. Other contenders will be exploring levels of support etc

Streeting has ruled himself out. IF AB becomes PM I think it would be a mistake to choose cabinet colleagues on the basis of loyalty/support/endorsement- e.g Streeting as chancellor because he did not stand against him. Streeting and AB differ on spending rhetoric so that may backfire.To 'reward' yet sideline a rival like Streeting there is the Foreign Office. That is a role that would have suited Starmer- but I now doubt he would want it.

AB has come in on a platform seeking change so he needs to have a cabinet that differs from Starmer's and is structured to deliver the 'change's seeks- yet to be outlined and honed. Much work going on behind the scenes no doubt.

Yvette Cooper is hugely experienced, knows AB from when they were in government together years ago and she's a steady pair of hands. Ed Miliband will be there somewhere and most likely Nandy also and Louse Haigh. Mahmood has been hard line as home secretary which doesn't seem like a fit with AB's values but she is able? Angela Raynor most likely to feature- she may come forward as a contender still? Miatta Fahnbulleh has an economic and think tank background which could be very useful so a very outside bet as chancellor.

Other possibles? - John Healy, Bridget Phillipson remain in Education? David Lammy was a big Starmer defender- can he make the transition? I'm not sure where RR would fit- not anywhere prominent for sure.

I would like to see Ed Milliband gone from the cabinet completely and taking his ridiculous and impractical ideologies with him!!