Following a landslide election victory, Keir Starmer’s Labour government faces a range of urgent priorities both home and abroad, from a prison’s overcrowding crisis and huge NHS waiting lists to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Below we list the members of the new cabinet and the main tasks that await them. Angela Rayner Deputy prime minister and secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities Seen as being more leftwing than Starmer, Rayner, 44, will take the lead on Labour’s plans to strengthen workers’ rights and to build 1.5m new homes. She has promised “the biggest boost to...