Darren Jones has been named as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, replacing Pat McFadden as part of a major ministerial reshuffle by the prime minister Keir Starmer that began on Friday.
McFadden, who has been CDL since Labour came to power in July 2024, has been named as work and pensions secretary.
Jones has taken over the senior Cabinet Office position in addition to his new role as chief secretary to the prime minister. In the role supporting the prime minister, Jones has been asked to “work collaboratively across UK government to drive forward progress in key policy areas", a similar brief to the CDL role.
As CDL, McFadden begun his tenure by promising a change from the previous government, which he accused of “going around beating the civil service up". He also said he wanted to make the civil service "a richer, more rewarding experience". He later launched "test-and-learn" teams to make Whitehall "more like a start-up" and kickstarted a review of all quangos. He also announced a shakeup of the government ethics system earlier this summer.
Congratulating McFadden on his move, FDA general secretary Dave Penman said he had been a "constructive, challenging and engaged minister" who was "keen to harness the potential of the civil service to make government work more effectively".
What are the other big moves in the reshuffle?
David Lammy has changed from foreign secretary to justice secretary, Yvette Cooper from home secretary to foreign secretary, and Shabana Mahmood from justice secretary to home secretary.
The reshuffle follows the resignation of Angela Rayner as deputy prime minister and housing, communities and local government secretary after an investigation by the PM’s ethics adviser found she had broken the ministerial code.
Lammy has been given the role of deputy prime minister, while Steve Reed has become the housing, communities and local government secretary.
Reed has been replaced as environment, food and rural affairs secretary by Emma Reynolds, who joins Cabinet having being promoted from her role as economic secretary to the Treasury and city minister.
Other Cabinet-level moves include Liz Kendall changing from work and pensions secretary to become science, innovation and technology secretary, replacing Peter Kyle, who has become business and trade secretary, replacing Jonathan Reynolds – who has been named as chief whip of the House of Commons and parliamentary secretary to the Treasury.
Reynolds replaces Sir Alan Campbell, who has become leader of the House of Commons in place of Lucy Powell – who has been sacked.
The other Cabinet-level changes see Douglas Alexander return as Scotland secretary almost two decades after he held the same role under Tony Blair. He replaces Ian Murray, who has been sacked.