Healey appointed as chancellor, Miliband named foreign secretary and Mahmood remains home secretary as Burnham picks cabinet – UK politics live

Andy Burnham is Britain's new Prime Minister. His cabinet appointments, the Guardian reports, include Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Miliband as Foreign Secretary, and Mahmood remaining as Home Secretary. Burnham has cast his arrival in power as a 'circuit breaker moment' for the UK. On his first day in office, banners on Whitehall urged the government to block the proposed Rosebank oil field development in the North Sea.

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