The political family that have served in every single Labour Cabinet for 100 years
Sir Keir Starmer has continued the trend of selecting one member of this political dynasty for a government top job in a tradition dating back to 1924.
As Sir Keir Starmer announces his new Cabinet there is one person for whom serving in a Labour government has become something of a family tradition dating back 100 years.
New Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn, 70, will be returning to a Labour administration for the second time after previously holding positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2003 until 2010.
Mr Benn is the son of former Cabinet minister, author and veteran left-wing campaigner Tony Benn, who also held office during the Labour governments of the 1960s and 70s.
Going back even further to 1924, we find the first Benn to appear with the first Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
William Wedgwood Benn was appointed the Secretary of State for India under MacDonald and then served as Secretary of State for Air under Clement Attlee after World War II.
Continuing the Benn family tradition of political roles, Emily Benn, the niece of Hilary Benn, has run for Parliament in two elections and now works as a councillor in London.
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Sir Keir Starmer's first Cabinet is the most diverse on record in terms of education background, analysis has shown. The majority of the Prime Minister's top team, 23 Cabinet ministers, or 92 percent of the total, attended comprehensive schools, according to research by social mobility charity the Sutton Trust.
The Prime Minister attended a grammar school which was a state-selective grammar when he started, and his place remained state-funded throughout his secondary education even though the school became independent two years into his time there, according to the charity.
Only one member of the new Labour Cabinet, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh, went to an independent school, Sheffield High School.
The Sutton Trust added that although Defence Secretary John Healey and Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn spent time in private education, most of their schooling between the ages of 11 and 16 was in comprehensive schools.
The proportion of Sir Keir's Cabinet educated at comprehensive schools is significantly higher than the cabinets of former prime ministers Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, both at 19 percent, according to the charity.
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Of the 25 ministers in the Labour Cabinet, 40 percent attended Oxford or Cambridge for university.
Sir Keir continues the tradition of nearly every UK prime minister since the Second World War having studied at Oxford University, after he attended for a postgraduate degree.
The one exception is Gordon Brown, who went to Edinburgh University.
