Category: UK Politics
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper Takes Post in Major UK Cabinet Reshuffle After Rayner Tax Row Exit
Keir Starmer named Yvette Cooper as Foreign Secretary after Angela Rayner quit over a stamp duty tax breach. David Lammy becomes Deputy PM and Justice Secretary, while Shabana Mahmood moves to the Home Office. The shake-up, touching a dozen roles, lands as Reform UK edges ahead in polls and Britain faces a tough foreign policy moment with the war in Ukraine and wider East‑West tensions.
