The new Cabinet was appointed, with Rachel Reeves now the first ever female Chancellor. David Lammy became the Foreign Secretary and Angela Rayner the Deputy Prime Minister.
On Saturday, Sir Keir is expected to hold the first full meeting of his Cabinet, complete junior ministerial appointments and take more calls from world leaders.
He is expected to move his family into Downing Street at some point. His first speech in Parliament as Prime Minister will take place on Tuesday before he flies out for a Nato summit in Washington DC.
Labour won the election with an estimated vote share of just 34 per cent, seeing some call Sir Keir’s victory a “loveless landslide”.
Sir Keir addressed those who did not back him in his Downing Street speech, saying: My Government will serve you. Politics can be a force for good – we will show that.”
On Friday morning, Rishi Sunak announced that he would resign as the Conservative leader, saying sorry for his party’s worst election result in modern history, but stay on until a successor is picked.
Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick are all expected to launch leadership bids. Exact timings of the contest have not been announced.
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