Gordon Brown's Cabinet

12.27.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Fri 29th Jun 2007

Gordon Brown's first Cabinet has been announced, a couple of surprises but pretty much what was expected. I was slightly annoyed that Douglas Alexander has taken over at the Department for International Development, not because I don't think he will be any good (quite the contrary) but he is also in charge of General Election planning and I don't think he will put as much into the job as Hilary Benn did. The full list of the Cabinet is below:

The Cabinet:

· Prime minister: Gordon Brown

· Chancellor: Alistair Darling

· Foreign Secretary: David Miliband

· Home Secretary: Jacqui Smith

· Health: Alan Johnson

· Schools and children: Ed Balls

· Innovation, universities & skills: John Denham

· Justice: Jack Straw

· Commons leader: Harriet Harman (returns to cabinet)

· Defence and Scotland: Des Browne

· International Development: Douglas Alexander

· Work and Pensions and Wales: Peter Hain

· Northern Ireland: Shaun Woodward

· Chief secretary to the Treasury: Andy Burnham

· Cabinet office minister: Ed Miliband

· Culture: James Purnell

· Transport: Ruth Kelly

· Lords leader: Baroness Ashton

· Environment: Hilary Benn

· Chief Whip: Geoff Hoon (returns to cabinet)

· Business and enterprise: John Hutton

· Communities: Hazel Blears

Also attending cabinet:

· Attorney General: Baroness Scotland

· Housing minister: Yvette Cooper

· Children and youth justice: Beverley Hughes

· Africa, Asia and UN: Lord Malloch Brown

· Olympics: Tessa Jowell

· Lords Chief Whip: Lord Grocott

Leaving cabinet:

Tony Blair (was Prime Minister)

John Prescott (was Deputy PM)

Margaret Beckett (was Foreign Secretary)

John Reid (was Home Secretary)

Patricia Hewitt (was Health Secretary)

Tessa Jowell (was Culture)

Stephen Timms (was Chief Sec to the Treasury)

Baroness Amos (was Lords leader)

Hilary Armstrong (was cabinet office minister)