# Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 5 July 2024 [Rachel Reeves](/people/rachel-reeves) was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer after the 4 July general election.

## Context

She had been shadow chancellor. This run does not mint keir-starmer.

5 July 2024 appointment. Stored as one 5 July 2024 Fact. Keep Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet on 2024-07-05 separate from neighbouring 5 July 2024 appointment, 29 July Winter Fuel announcement, 10 September Budget Responsibility Act, 16 September SI 2024/869, and 30 October 2024 Autumn Budget.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer can present a Budget, take a bill through the Commons, and announce a transfer change to Parliament. She does not sit as DWP’s laying officer on every SI, as the OBR, or as the previous chancellor. A 29 July announcement is not authorship of every later HMRC recovery. Sharing a cabinet with Keir Starmer is not a reason to drop SI 2024/869.

## Evidence and sources

GOV.UK carries the official instrument or communique. BBC News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is the owned fiscal-rules driver: a completed Exchequer appointment that is the office of the 2024 SI and Act.

## What is established and what is not

Established: She was appointed chancellor on 5 July 2024.

Not established: A unique later GDP integer as size, or authorship of every later DWP SI.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Sharing the cabinet with Starmer is not a reason to drop 5 July 2024.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet, not a later speech about Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet on 2024-07-05 is not a licence to treat every later GOV.UK communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She accepted the Exchequer. Sharing the cabinet with Starmer is not a reason to drop 5 July 2024. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Rachel Reeves: https://factrail.ai/people/rachel-reeves

## Drivers

- Reeves fiscal rules: https://factrail.ai/drivers/reeves-fiscal-rules

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02zdd92zdo
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-reeves-chancellor-2024