Next UK Home Secretary in 2026?
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Wes Streeting is the new defence secretary
Er, the Cabinet reshuffle is over for tonight… and we don’t have a Defence secretary or a Justice secretary. • • The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments: • • Stephen Kinnock MP as Secretary of State for Wales. • Sir Chris Bryant MP as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. • Rt Hon Ellie Reeves KC MP as Attorney General. She will attend Cabinet. • Rt Hon Emma Reynolds MP as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. She will attend Cabinet. • Kanishka Narayan MP as Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. He will attend Cabinet. • Hamish Falconer MP as Minister of State (Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He will attend Cabinet. • Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP will remain as Secretary of State for Transport. • • Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP will remain as Secretary of State for Scotland. • • Rt Hon Sir Alan Campbell MP will remain as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons. • • Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Basildon will remain as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. • • Matthew Pennycook MP will remain as Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He will attend Cabinet. • • Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC and Rt Hon Jo Stevens MP have left the Government. • • Notes to editors • • A strengthened Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will bring together the current DCMS remit with responsibility for digital foundations, digital transformation, digital inclusion and skills, information resilience and online harms. • • There will be no further appointments this evening.
Live: Andy Burnham has announced his final cohort of Cabinet ministers. Stephen Kinnock is the new Secretary of State for Wales, while Sir Chris Bryant MP is Secretar
Live: Wes Streeting named UK defence secretary
Stephen Kinnock has been appointed as Secretary of State for Wales @walesoffice.
United Kingdom: Ambitious Wes Streeting appointed Defense Minister by the new Prime Minister
Wes Streeting named to top UK defense role
We now know what job Wes Streeting has got - he goes to Ministry of Defence. • • Miatta Fahnbulleh enters cabinet as energy secretary. Alex Norris becomes justice secretary. • • Angela Eagle goes to environment - and will oversee plans to bring water industry back under public control.
Some remarkable cabinet appointments • • Wes Streeting defence secretary despite having no experience, replacing former soldier Dan Jarvis • • Ed Miliband foreign sec despite Trump admin’s views • • Shabana Mahmood home will disappoint Burnhamites who hoped she’d be moved • • And Healey…
After just a few weeks in the job of defence secretary, Dan Jarvis is out. • • Replacement TBA, but lots of people still in No10…
Wes Streeting named new UK defence minister
Wes Streeting is Britain’s new Defence Secretary! • • He’s advocated for higher defence spending recently, though has no experience in the brief. His grandfather served in the Navy during WW2 • • Means Dan Jarvis leaves after just five weeks - he could return to the security brief
Live: Wes Streeting named Secretary of State for Defence
Live: Wes Streeting has been appointed defence secretary.
NEW: Wes Streeting is the defence secretary
Live: Wes Streeting appointed defence secretary
UK PM Burnham Appoints Wes Streeting As Defense Secretary
Live: Wes Streeting named defence secretary
Live: Wes Streeting appointed defence secretary
NEW: The cabinet is taking shape… • • •Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP as Secretary of State for Defence • •Alex Norris MP as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice • •Dame Angela Eagle DBE MP as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • •Miatta Fahnbulleh MP as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
NEW: Wes Streeting appointed Defence Secretary • • And Burnham ally Miatta Fahnbulleh is the new Energy secretary
ALERT: Wes Streeting appointed Britain's new defence minister: govt
BREAKING: Big job for Wes Streeting as he becomes Defence Secretary. • • Also; • • •Alex Norris MP as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice • •Dame Angela Eagle DBE MP as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • •Miatta Fahnbulleh MP as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Wes Streeting is the Defence Secretary
Wes Streeting has been appointed as Secretary of State for Defence @defencehq.
Wes Streeting is the new Defence Secretary
BREAKING: • • *****Wes Streeting is the new defence secretary***** • • He succeeds Dan Jarvis, who was in the role for less than six weeks • • Team Burnham was frustrated to discover that £4.7bn of the £15bn defence spending uplift was unfunded • • I'm told that claims that Rachel Reeves rejected the role of defence secretary are wide of the mark - it was another position
UK PM Burnham Appoints Hon Wes Streeting MP as Secretary of State for Defence
Yvette Cooper - Health and Social Care • Anneliese Midgley - Chief Whip • Angela Rayner - Housing, Communities and Local Government • Lucy Powell - Education • Jonathan Reynolds - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade • Bridget Phillipson - Women and Equalities
Cabinet appointments so far: • John Healey - Chancellor • Ed Miliband - Foreign • Shabana Mahmood - Home Secretary • Louise Haigh - First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office • Pat McFadden - Work and Pensions Secretary
What is this event about?
This market will resolve to the individual who is officially appointed as the next Home Secretary of the United Kingdom by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.
To count for resolution, the individual must be officially appointed by the United Kingdom Monarch. Any interim or caretaker Home Secretary will not count toward the resolution of this market.
If no such Home Secretary is appointed, or Shabana Mahmood is re-appointed as Home Secretary, by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to “No next Home Secretary in 2026”.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official information from the Government of the United Kingdom; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.