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Please use this thread to discuss all changes in ministerial posts as well as any policy announcements made by Burnham or No 10.

Appointments:

• Former defence secretary John Healey appointed chancellor
• Ed Miliband replaces Cooper as foreign secretary
• Shabana Mahmood reappointed as home secretary
• McFadden remains work and pensions secretary
• Cooper appointed health secretary
• Angela Rayner appointed housing secretary
• Jonathan Reynolds as business secretary
• Lucy Powell as education secretary
• Bridget Phillipson to remain a full member of cabinet as minister for women and equalities
• Anneliese Midgley appointed chief whip and will be a member of cabinet
• ⁠Lisa Nandy remains culture secretary
• Alex Norris is the new justice secretary and Dame Angela Eagle is the new environment secretary
• Wes Streeting is defence secretary
• Kanishka Narayan, who was previously online safety and AI minister, has been appointed AI minister and will attend cabinet
• Ellie Reeves, former chair of the Labour Party and sister of the departing chancellor Rachel Reeves, will become attorney general and attend cabinet
• Stephen Kinnock, ex-care minister and son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, will be the secretary of state for Wales
• Hamish Falconer becomes minister for intergovernmental relations and European relations and will attend cabinet
• Chris Bryant moves from minister for trade to Northern Ireland secretary
• Emma Reynolds, former environment secretary, takes on the role of chief secretary to the treasury and will attend cabinet
• Heidi Alexander – transport secretary
• Douglas Alexander – secretary of state for Scotland
• Alan Campbell – leader of the House of Commons and lord president of the council
• Baroness Smith – lord privy seal and leader of the House of Lords
• Matthew Pennycook – minister of state in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Downing Street also says it has merged the Department of Science and Innovation with the Department of Business and Trade.

Sackings:

• Steve Reed out as housing secretary
• David Lammy out as justice secretary
• Peter Kyle sacked as business sec
• Rachel Reeves out as chancellor
• Richard Hermer out as attorney general
• Liz Kendall no longer science and technology secretary
• Jo Stevens out as Welsh secretary
• Darren Jones out as Chancellor or the Duchy of Lancaster
• Patrick Vallance resigned as science minister earlier today. Not cabinet but still a big deal.
• Prisons minister Lord Timpson also quit government
• Hilary Benn out as Northern Ireland Secretary
• Nick Thomas-Symonds gone as the Paymaster General and as the Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations
• James Murray must be out as health minister as Yvette Cooper has just been appointed to that role...

Husband is a contract software developer and works from home via our Ltd. He uses our spare bedroom as an office space. It is getting very hot and whilst we have portable air conditioners in all the other bedrooms we don’t have one in there because no one sleeps in there (you can as there is a bed, but we never have a need). Would it be reasonable to purchase a portable air conditioner via our business given it would solely be used during his work hours to ensure the room is cool enough for him to focus? Or because the room also doubles as a spare bedroom would that make it harder to justify?