Sir Keir Starmer is travelling to the Nato summit in Washington DC for his first international trip since becoming prime minister
Earlier he urges MPs to deliver "national renewal" in an address to Parliament, hailing it as the most diverse in history
Former PM Rishi Sunak says the new PM has a "formidable task", as party leaders make speeches to the House
Sir Lindsay Hoyle is re-elected as Speaker of the House of Commons - watch here as he's dragged to his chair, as is tradition
The swearing-in of 650 MPs begins, with the process expected to continue into tomorrow
Meanwhile, over in London a moving truck has been waiting to be loaded in front of No 10 Downing Street, as the former government's items are moved out.
You can watch Downing Street Live throughout the day on the Watch & Listen tab above, or on BBC iPlayer.
Image source, EPA
Image source, EPA
Image source, EPA
Image source, EPA
Image source, PA MediaAnother question for the new prime minister on his trip to the Welsh Parliament was about Labour's loss of seats in areas where there's a high Muslim population.
Starmer has replied by saying many people voted Labour for the first time in this election but he's "concerned about areas where Labour was not able to secure votes".
Pressed on how Labour would restore trust with British Muslims, he replies "we will address that".
Huw Thomas
BBC Wales business correspondent
Image source, PA MediaThousands of workers are facing losing their jobs in Port Talbot
If the new UK government wants a “better deal” from Tata Steel, it doesn’t have much time to negotiate it.
The second of Port Talbot’s blast furnaces is due to be switched off in September - a moment which will mark the closure of the heavy end of steelmaking and trigger 2,800 redundancies.
Community, the largest union representing steelworkers, says there is now a negotiating window of around four to six weeks. It concedes that the timing is incredibly tight.
If it cannot be persuaded to change course, Tata Steel may be open to the Labour government’s suggestions of future investment in the industry. Especially if it comes with money from the new administration’s £2.5bn steel fund.
Image source, Getty ImagesBoth the blast furnaces in the Port Talbot works are to close in a transition to electric arc furnaces
What might they spend it on?
Tata is considering a plate mill in Port Talbot, which could provide the steel needed for wind turbines. A direct reduced iron facility, potentially operating as a joint venture between the UK’s remaining steel companies, is also being mooted.
Longer term ambitions for growing the steel sector are a common goal, but softening the impact of Tata’s redundancy plans are more pressing for the workforce.
Image source, PA MediaGething and Starmer at Cardiff's Senedd
After meeting with Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething, Starmer spoke to reporters about relations with the devolved governments.
The prime minister says it's very important to him to "reset relations with Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales".
The Labour government will work with the Welsh government to deliver for Wales, he has said, “rather than the conflict we’ve seen too much of over the last 14 years”.
Starmer says he's spoken to Gething about several "pressing issues", including Tata Steel - where 2,800 workers face losing their jobs.
The problems at the steelmaker are “of great concern to me", the prime minister has said.
Watch: Emily Thornberry 'has been fantastic' - Starmer
On a visit to the Welsh Parliament, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been asked by reporters why former shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry was not offered job in his cabinet.
She has written on social media about her "personal disappointment" at being dropped.
He has replied by saying he was putting together a "very strong" team, and that Emily Thornberry has been "fantastic".
"She has big part to play," he said before adding "as has every single one of my now 412 Labour MPs".
He also says his team has a very strong mandate for "doing politics differently".
Image source, PA MediaJoe Pike
Political correspondent
New MPs are being offered a course on 'The Behaviour Code' run by staff from Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme.
One new parliamentarian told me the training scenarios included an MP asking their assistant to join them in a hotel room to work, then offering them wine.
Another situation involved an MP seeing another politician leering over an employee in a Commons bar and working out how best to respond.
MPs were told that they have a role to play in policing the behaviour of their colleagues and protecting staff.
The course is part of efforts to tackle bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct in Westminster. It is not compulsory.
Hywel Griffith
Wales Correspondent
Image source, PA MediaTop of the agenda for Vaughan Gething and Sir Keir Starmer will be the imminent job losses at Tata Steel.
Having shut down one of the two coal-fired blast furnaces at Port Talbot last week, the company is due to close the second in September, leaving 2,800 workers out of a job.
Labour has already entered talks with Tata over trying to secure “a better deal” for the works, but the two leaders will need to look at what happens if the company can’t be convinced.
Also high on Gething’s list of talking points will be a request for more money - or at least a guarantee that the current funding formula for Wales will be reformed.
He will know that Starmer isn’t touring the UK with a pocket full of cheques to hand out - there is already acceptance that money from the HS2 project will not be passed on to Wales.
However, having spent years blaming the Conservative UK government for failing to provide enough funding to Wales, the first minister will be desperate to secure some extra cash.
Faisal Islam
Economics editor
The message from Rachel Reeves in her first speech as chancellor was that she accepted this could cause political flashpoints, but that Labour has a stable mandate for these changes.
It was a message aimed as much at an impressive roster of international investors in the room for her speech, as the wider public.
In the absence for now of a surge of public money, the government needs the private sector to start investing, and quickly.
This Big Bang of planning reform is designed to make the UK the default option for inward investment in Europe again, after years of political and economic instability after Brexit and the mini budget.
Faisal Islam
Economics editor
As a result of today’s reforms, which mainly affect England, there should be hundreds of new wind turbines, and hundreds of thousands of new homes, every year.
These are developments blocked within the planning system by local councils. Instead, targets will be set for home building, with looser restrictions on the land available.
While developments will be concentrated on industrial brownfield land, some areas of already developed green belt, which the government calls “grey belt”, will also be released.
A de facto ban on onshore wind power which the chancellor called “absurd” will be lifted, and the developments could be designated as national infrastructure, bypassing some local concerns.
The chancellor also announced that a review by Mark Carney into the establishment of a National Wealth Fund would soon be published. She also said she would before summer release an audit by Treasury officials of the current state of public spending and tax.
The Budget and a Spending Review will occur in Autumn, after the full process from the Office of Budget responsibility.
Image source, ReutersThe first Monday morning programme of the new government has been busy, so here's a roundup of the key developments so far:
Mark Palmer
Wales reporter
Image source, PA MediaThe prime minister has arrived at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay for talks with the Welsh First minister Vaughan Gething in the final stop of his tour of the devolved nations.
The talks between Sir Keir Starmer and Gething will include the future of the Tata steel plant in Port Talbot where thousands of workers face losing their jobs as part of plans for more environmentally friendly steel making.
It was a very low key arrival for Starmer – in the car park of the Senedd office building, Ty Hywel.
Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent
The third interesting theme of Starmer's appointments is the ‘retreads’.
Heidi Alexander returned to the Commons on Thursday after six years away and is instantly a minister. That continues a theme from Friday’s appointment of Douglas Alexander - no relation - who is a minister after nine years out of politics.
Fourth is experience.
Lord Hendy, the chair of Network Rail and former head of Transport for London, becomes a transport minister. He had been a non-party affiliated peer.
This is very much in the vein of the earlier appointments of former government scientific adviser Patrick Vallance and prison reform campaigner James Timpson.
And finally - the disappointed.
Unlike the cabinet, this diverges quite a lot from those who were in Starmer’s shadow team. There are going to be a lot of disappointed MPs on his backbenches.
Even with a vast majority, that will be a political challenge.
Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent
Cabinet appointments typically grab the headlines but often the ministers of state - the rung below cabinet - do much of the policy grouting.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has just announced a whole suite of them and there are some really interesting themes:
First, select committee chairs.
The prime minister has plucked two of them from the backbenches and installed them in the departments they had been shadowing.
They are Diana Johnson, who becomes a Home Office minister, and Stephen Timms, who becomes a minister at the Department for Work and Pensions - a role he last performed under Tony Blair 18 years ago.
Second, Nick Thomas-Symonds is minister for the constitution and European relations.
It’s a surprise that he’s been dropped from the cabinet after four years in the shadow cabinet. He is personally close to Starmer. But it’s a hugely significant job.
He will be responsible for remodelling the UK’s relationship with the EU as well as Labour’s plans to reform the House of Lords.
Nick Eardley
Political correspondent
As well as information about Parliament and their new email details, MPs are being offered panic alarms when they arrive at Parliament for their inductions.
It’s symbolic of how security concerns have grown in recent years.
There are a lot of new faces around Parliament - more than 300 of them.
But politics is pretty brutal - there are a good few people here who lost their seats on Thursday, clearing out their offices.
I’ve also spoken to people who worked for MPs who lost their seats. Those members of staff have four days to get a new job.
Image source, Getty ImagesWe have just had a whole raft of fresh government appointments - a number of junior ministers who will serve in various government departments.
Let's have a look at some of the other well-known names who have been appointed:
Chris Page
BBC News Ireland correspondent
Watch: The prime minister responds to a question about whether he's a unionist at heart
Sir Keir Starmer has said he “understands” the concerns that Northern Ireland parties have raised with him about funding for public services and will work “constructively” to resolve them.
The prime minister held a news conference in the great hall at Stormont, after he met the five main parties in the devolved assembly.
"Today was very much about the way in which we will address those issues, those challenges and to be very clear about the importance of it to me and the collaborative way in which we will take this forward,” he has said.
Starmer was asked about comments he made - while in opposition – that he would campaign for Northern Ireland to remain in the union if there was a referendum on Irish unity.
On this occasion, the prime minister said that he was “absolutely committed” to the Good Friday Peace Agreement, which required him as head of the UK government to be an “honest broker”.
Image source, Getty ImagesBy Mark Poynting
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that “as of today, we are ending the absurd ban on new onshore wind in England”.
The Conservative government tightened planning rules, external for onshore wind farms in England in 2015, which renewable energy groups said amounted to a “de facto ban”.
The Tories said the aim was to give local people a greater say. But the change effectively meant that a very small number of objections could block new projects.
England’s onshore wind capacity has been virtually unchanged since the end of 2017, external, at just over 3,000 megawatts (MW).
By contrast, France has more than 22,000 MW of onshore wind capacity, and Germany more than 61,000 MW. That represents increases of nearly 9,000 MW and nearly 11,000 MW respectively since the end of 2017, external.
The Conservative government eased planning rules for onshore wind in September 2023, but renewable energy groups have said this did not go far enough.
Image source, ReutersRachel Reeves visited a building site in London earlier this year
As we've been reporting, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that the government will review green belt boundaries to prioritise brownfield and "grey belt" land in the quest to meet housebuilding targets.
But let's go back to basics - what do these categories all mean?
By Anthony Reuben
A little earlier, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed the new government will bring in mandatory housing targets to achieve its goal of 1.5 million new homes in England over the next five years.
The Conservatives brought in mandatory housing targets in 2019, which were based on forecasts of the number of households expected in each area.
Local authorities in England then had to ensure that many homes would be delivered, but these targets were abandoned when Rishi Sunak became prime minister in 2022.
The previous government estimated, external that it had built one million new homes in the last five years – which was a pledge in the 2019 Conservative manifesto – but it failed to meet another pledge of building 300,000 new homes a year.
In 2023, a committee of MPs criticised, external the dropping of mandatory housing targets, saying it was difficult to see how 300,000 homes per year could be achieved without them.
Joe Pike
Political correspondent
Image source, ReutersParliament has been transformed into a welcome centre for newly elected MPs with besuited officials greeting them at the front entrance next to a statue of Oliver Cromwell.
Each new MP is paired up with a member of the parliamentary staff in a 'buddy system', partly to ensure they don't get lost.
I have already spotted few newly elected politicians struggling to find their way around - understandable in this gothic fantasy palace which stretches over eight acres, with 100 staircases, more than 1,000 rooms and three miles of passages.
Inside, MPs are given security passes and offered a key for a locker, since it will be a few days before they are given offices.
The parliamentary security department has set up a mock front door to demonstrate the security measures MPs can install at their homes and constituency offices. These include spy holes, alarms, video intercoms and CCTV cameras.
But as excited newbies arrive, ousted veterans are clearing out their offices and heading off. Early this morning, I spotted former cabinet minister and now ex-MP Therese Coffey driving her car out the main gates.
