{"id":32135,"date":"2026-07-20T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32135"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:05:25","slug":"healey-named-chancellor-as-burnham-clears-cabinet-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32135","title":{"rendered":"Healey named Chancellor as Burnham clears Cabinet \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Healey-Sky.png\" alt=\"John Healey\" class=\"wp-image-179931 lazyload\" style=\"width:837px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Healey-Sky.png\" alt=\"John Healey\" class=\"wp-image-179931 lazyload\" style=\"width:837px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Healey-Sky.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Healey-Sky-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Healey-Sky-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Healey-Sky-600x416.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>John Healey is installed at the Treasury<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">John Healey has been named Chancellor after Rachel Reeves was sacked and refused another Cabinet post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The former Defence Secretary resigned from Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s Cabinet over spending allocated to his department, and will now return in the most high profile role after the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He leapfrogged Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood who were heavily tipped for the role. Mr Miliband was unpopular with the markets, while Ms Mahmood\u2019s experience in financial and economic affairs were questioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Healey is expected to be involved in announcing new measures tomorrow to tackle the cost of living and will be central to the new tax measures Mr Burnham is keen to develop ahead of the autumn budget. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The number of sacked ministers reached almost a dozen as Mr Burnham shaped his new team which is also expected to include Burnham campaigner Lousie Haigh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Eight full cabinet ministers are out: Ms Reeves, David Lammy (foreign), Liz Kendall (science and technology) Peter Kyle (business), Hilary Benn (Northern Ireland), Jo Stevens (Welsh), Darren Jones (PM\u2019s Office) and Steve Reed (housing).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lord Richard Hermer is no longer attorney general. Lord Vallance resigned as science minister. He was the former chief scientific adviser who played a key role in the government\u2019s response to the Covid pandemic and was regarded by the scientific community as being close to developing science policy. His main achievement was to align that extra spending with the government\u2019s growth agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Burnham plans public control in remodelled Britain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.6.0) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Healey #named #Chancellor #Burnham #clears #Cabinet #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Healey is installed at th&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[10389,18710,266,18713,5367,5234,265,18712,18711,9262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}