Keir Starmer’s first Cabinet assembly as Prime Minister – advised in the perfect photographs

Keir Starmer has chaired his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, where he welcomed his top team to Downing Street and told them it’s time to ‘get on with our work’

Keir Starmer has chaired his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister.

Flanked by his top team, he told his Government ministers it was “absolutely fantastic to welcome” them to No10. He said it had been the “honour and privilege of my life” to be asked by Prime Minister by the King after Labour stormed to an historic victory at the General Election.

“Look colleagues, it is absolutely fantastic to welcome you to the Cabinet, our first meeting,” Mr Starmer said. “And it was the honour and privilege of my life to be invited by the King, His Majesty the King yesterday to form a government and to form the Labour Government of 2024. And now we hold our first Cabinet meeting. So I welcome you to it.

Labour has returned to Government after 14 years of the Tories being in power. Mr Starmer led his party to victory, winning 412 seats across the UK. But in a warning that the tough days are far from behind them, the new PM told his Cabinet: “We have a huge amount of work to do so now we get on with our work.”