The Net Zero-obsessed millionaire scientist, a bullied Byker Grove actress, the pro-Palestine human rights lawyer and the cobbler who employs ex-offenders who is now Prison's Minister: Meet Keir's Cabinet as new Prime Minister gets to work on first day

It's been little than 24 hours since Keir Starmer was handed the keys to 10 Downing Street and helium has already ushered successful his caller cabinet. 

Sir Keir, who is present Britain's 58th premier minister, took nary clip successful appointing galore of the cardinal players who are acceptable to signifier his authorities - and the state - implicit the adjacent 5 years.  

While galore of those who secured the furniture roles were unsurprising for most, immoderate of their backgrounds overgarment a much absorbing picture. 

From an Oxford postgraduate who starred successful Byker Grove to the renowned 'Dr Doom' who became a household sanction during Covid and adjacent the main enforcement of Timpsons, determination are plentifulness of noteworthy characters taking up the apical jobs. 

Here MailOnline looks astatine immoderate of the recently appointed members connected Sir Keir's squad and however they came to beryllium portion of this Labour government. 

Bridget Phillipson - Education Secretary 

Bridget Phillipson was a high-achiever with an involvement successful acting that landed her a relation arsenic an other successful Byker Grove earlier winning a spot astatine Oxford University.

Ms Phillipson said her parent had signed her up for play people from a precise young property arsenic 'she was rather shy' and 'needed to larn to beryllium a spot much confident'. 

This pb to her becoming an other successful the deed British teen drama, which besides featured the likes of Ant and Dec among its prima studded cast. 

'I played a portion going successful to a schoolhouse and I played a portion hanging astir a euphony venue waiting for a radical oregon thing to arrive,' Phillipson told the BBC's Nick Robinson successful an interrogation successful 2022. 

 'The mode these things enactment connected tv it takes each time to get a precise very abbreviated clip of a radical of america walking into a schoolhouse oregon immoderate it was.'

She went connected to go MP for Houghton and Sunderland South successful 2010, astatine the property of 26, aft moving for respective years astatine the women's refuge her parent founded.

Ms Phillipson came from a struggling single-parent household but says she was acold from the worst disconnected successful her class. Although she has admitted that she was bullied successful people for being truthful poor. 

'Parents didn't privation their children mixing with radical similar me, oregon coming to wherever we lived. As clip wore on, frankly I wouldn't blasted them, due to the fact that it wasn't a large spot to be. The thoroughfare was connected a downward spiral,' Ms Phillipson told The TImes. 

Her upbringing has shaped her attack to the relation of shadiness acquisition secretary, successful which she has outlined Labour's ngo to smash the 'class ceiling' by removing barriers to accidental for little advantaged children. 

To the disappointment of immoderate connected the Labour left, escaped schoolhouse meals – of which Ms Phillipson was a recipient portion increasing up – did not diagnostic successful the enactment manifesto.

Instead, it commits to escaped schoolhouse meal clubs to forestall children starting lessons hungry.

Sir Patrick Vallance - Minister of State of Science 

Sir Patrick Vallance became a household sanction during the Covid-19 pandemic, often appearing connected TV screens crossed the federation for the government's regular briefings.

The erstwhile main technological advisor is often remembered for delivering immoderate bleak projections astir the authorities of the country, earning him the nickname 'Dr Doom'. 

But, aft quitting his relation successful 2022, the 64-year-old is present acceptable to marque astonishing instrumentality to Whitehall - as a Minister of State of Science.

Vallance has been a large advocator for Labour's greenish policies, having voiced enactment for the party's ambition to decarbonise Britain's energy supplies by 2030. 

He was heavy progressive successful the COP26 clime negotiations. and besides leads the Net Zero Innovation Board, which provides strategical oversight of Government backing of nett zero innovation programmes.

Sir Patrick was archetypal appointed to the relation successful 2018, replacing his person Sir Chris Whitty who was temporarily fixed the position.

Before then, helium was an world and a advisor doc arsenic good arsenic the president of probe and improvement astatine GlaxoSmithKline.

He was among the cardinal scientists who spoke to the nationalist astir Covid during the present celebrated televised briefings from Government connected the pandemic, often lasting alongside the PM and ministers.

Although, his effect to the microorganism has not been without controversy.

In March 2020 helium was forced to support the Government's 'herd immunity' attack to not shutting down schools successful the archetypal question of restrictions.

He was besides criticised for presenting a present infamous illustration successful 1 of the televised briefings successful October that twelvemonth suggesting determination could beryllium a shocking 4,000 deaths per time by December 20 if pandemic restrictions were not imposed.

But the figures came from an outdated exemplary based connected a projection that determination would beryllium 1,000 deaths per time by the commencement of November.

Some anti-lockdown Tory MPs labelled these projections arsenic 'scare mongering'. But Sir Patrick said it was his not his occupation to dispersed optimism but to springiness ministers the information that they needed to marque decisions.

The idiosyncratic has, however, besides been praised for saying Covid absorption indispensable go akin to flu.

Sir Patrick was calved successful Essex successful 1960 and educated astatine Truro schoolhouse successful Cornwall, which costs astir £30,000 to committee now. 

He had considered being a cook but past began a beingness successful subject and medicine astatine assemblage earlier going to GSK.

It would beryllium the relation that catapulted him to the prominence helium holds today, truthful well-known helium has ain introduction successful Who's Who, which lists his hobbies arsenic 'mushrooming, cooking, gardening' and 'playing tennis badly'.

Just 12 days into the occupation helium was rubbing shoulders with royalty, pictured with Prince Andrew astatine an event. 

After six years astatine GSK his basal wage arsenic Executive Director was £780,000 a year.

When helium near helium cashed in £5 cardinal worthy of shares helium got from them from his clip moving determination until March 2018.

And successful 2017 erstwhile helium took up the relation of Government Chief Scientific Adviser Nature, the planetary play subject journal, said his wage was up to £180,000 a twelvemonth – much than the Prime Minister.

Vallance lives with his household successful a important semi-detached Victorian location worthy £1.8million, which they bought successful 2018 with cash.

They had to implicit extended renovations aft it had been near wholly gutted by a occurrence earlier they were progressive successful the property. It is not known whether it belongs to his doc wife Sophia Ann oregon immoderate of their children. 

The spot is 1 of the largest connected the well-heeled street, which is lined with costly cars. 

James Timpson -  Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation

James Timpson, main enforcement of his father's Timpsons footwear repair concatenation business, was made the caller curate for Prisons, Parole and Probation during the caller Prime Minister's appointments connected Friday. 

Mr Timpson OBE's recently earned presumption good renowned for his enactment advocating for ex-convicts and passionateness for business.

Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending (EFFRR) until 2016, the Timpson's brag has been applauded for his schemes rehabilitating offenders.

That aforesaid year, helium became Chair of the Prison Reform Trust establishing Employment Advisory Board web passim the state to assistance amended occupation opportunities for situation leavers.

For his precise progressive enactment successful getting disadvantaged radical successful employment and training, the caller furniture subordinate was awarded successful OBE successful 2011.

Namely, the retailer's CEO employed ex-prisoners successful branches of his family's concern successful a bid to rehabilitate them.

According to The Mirror, the UK concern has present hired 600 ex-criminals passim the UK.

He told the work successful 2019: 'If you employment an ex-offender, idiosyncratic semipermanent unemployed, a veteran, a attraction leaver, oregon idiosyncratic who is disabled, the leader should not wage nationalist security for the archetypal 12 months.'

Whilst being good progressive successful the day-to-day runnings of his family's concern since 2002, the managing manager has managed to up institution profits from £3 cardinal to implicit an eye-watering £20 million.

His occurrence successful concern has been good recognised, with Timpson being showered successful awards specified arsenic the David Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation for 2012/13, astatine the Newcastle University Business School for inspiring concern minded people.

Later successful 2015, helium was an ambassador for the past Prince of Wales - King Charles - holding work for concern successful the North West.

So good revered for his concern acumen, Mr Timpson was 1 of 5 co-chairs advising connected however to make optimal concern conditions post-Brexit during Theresa May's tenure. Three years agone Timpson was reappointed trustee of the Tate.

Richard Hermer KC - Attorney General 

Richard Hermer is simply a high-profile quality rights lawyer from Matrix Chambers, said to bid the respect of others astatine the bar.

Mr Hermer, who was called to the Bar successful 1993 and appointed Queen’s Counsel 16 years later, is arguably 1 of the astir astonishing appointments to Sir Keir's cabinet. 

It was thought the present Prime Minister would appoint Emily Thornberry arsenic Attorney General, but she was brutally brushed speech successful favour of Mr Hermer who has been fixed a peerage to instrumentality connected the role.

It volition beryllium a bitter pill for Ms Thornberry to swallow with herself a erstwhile transgression barrister and having been successful Sir Keir's shadiness furniture successful 1 guise oregon different since helium became enactment person successful 2020.

Mr Hermer is simply a lawman precocious tribunal justice assigned to the king’s seat part and administrative tribunal and has antecedently amusement his enactment for the rights of Palestinian radical arsenic a quality rights lawyer. 

Last year, helium was 1 of a fig of signatories of a missive written to the past Foreign Secretary James Cleverly which stated the 'Israeli authorities is led by a conjugation of far-right parties whose communal extremity is the ceremonial annexation of the West Bank and the hold of a one-state world of unequal rights implicit much than 5 cardinal Palestinians nether occupation'.

He has besides spoken astatine events for Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and this twelvemonth represented Gerry Adams, who was the president of Sinn Féin for a fig of years during the Northern Ireland conflict, which ended successful 1998. 

Hermer already has a way grounds successful moving with Keir Starmer's Labour party, having advised them connected the government's Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill past Summer. 

The Bill was introduced with the purpose of preventing 'public bodies erstwhile making decisions astir procurement and concern from considering a state oregon territory of root oregon different territorial considerations successful a mode that indicates governmental oregon motivation disapproval of a overseas state.'

Hermer wrote: 'This precise poorly drafted Bill is apt to person a detrimental interaction connected the United Kingdom's quality to support and beforehand quality rights overseas.

He added the Bill 'will stifle escaped code astatine home..., volition instrumentality powers agelong exercised by section authorities into the hands of the Secretary of State and volition apt pb to an array of illogical outcomes'.