Full list of new intake MPs promoted to first ministerial role in reshuffle

Almost two dozen MPs elected at last year’s general election have been promoted to their first job in government in the reshuffle.

23 MPs, from the Wirral to Workington, have been appointed as junior ministers by Keir Starmer in his first shake-up of his administration since taking the office.

Among them include Dan Tomlinson as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Mike Tapp as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office, former Labour Together director Josh Simons as Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office, and Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP and wife of Morgan McSweeney Imogen Walker as assistant whip.

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The latest tranche of ministerial appointments has seen Justin Madders, Janet Daby, Gareth Thomas, Fleur Anderson and Nia Griffith leave government.

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