Who's in? New and old faces tipped for cabinet

It now seems inevitable that, by mid-July, we will have a new prime minister in Andy Burnham.

- Peter Walker

He will then pick his cabinet. So who will make it to the top table of the former mayor of Greater Manchester?

Definitely

Ed Miliband

Will he be Burnham’s chancellor? He is certainly among the possibilities, and Miliband allies are touting the idea. Even if not, the energy secretary is a Labour heavyweight and no Keir Starmer fan, so a job in the new cabinet feels inevitable.

Shabana Mahmood

Under different circumstances, Mahmood could be running to become Labour’s first (permanent) female leader. She is not, and there is much speculation she might even be kept in her current role of home secretary, where her hardline policies and rhetoric on immigration might be seen by team Burnham as tempering his more left-leaning policies.

Wes Streeting

As above: isn’t running, endorsed Burnham and would now like a big job in return. Streeting is among those tipped for the chancellor role, although he is a mere six weeks out of the health and social care secretary job he resigned from in protest against Starmer, so he could return to that. If Burnham wanted to simultaneously reward and sideline a rival, there is always the Foreign Office.

Angela Rayner

The former deputy prime minister and communities secretary left government last September after a mix-up over £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty, but in May she was cleared by HMRC of any deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness, and as a leading figure on Labour’s left will almost certainly be back.

Louise Haigh