John Healey has been appointed chancellor and Ed Miliband has become the new foreign secretary as new prime minister Andy Burnham finalises his new cabinet appointments.Shabana Mahmood will remain home secretary after she and Mr Miliband had been tipped as the leading candidates for the Treasury.These ministers will make up the top team in his new government, helping to deliver the policy agenda that Mr Burnham sets out.Louise Haigh, who managed Mr Burnham’s Makerfield campaign, will be first secretary of state, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and minister for the cabinet office.Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves and David Lammy are among several senior ministers leaving government after Sir Keir Starmer tendered his resignation to the King earlier on Monday. Angela Rayner is due to return to her former role as housing secretary, after being forced to resign last year over her tax affairs, while Wes Streeting has accepted the role of defence secretary.For the latest political updates on Andy Burnham’s first day as prime minister, follow The Independent’s live blogFormer foreign minister Yvette Cooper has been made health minister, and it has been confirmed that Pat McFadden will remain in his role as work and pensions secretary.Ahead of the major reshuffle, business secretary Peter Kyle, and housing secretary Steve Reed also resigned from government.Tendering her resignation, Ms Reeves wished “the very best of luck” to her successor, Mr Burnham and his cabinet. She wrote: “It has been the privilege of my life to serve as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.“The economy today is stronger, fairer and more resilient because of the choices we have taken as a Labour government over the past two years.”Allies of the former chancellor have said that she was offered a “big job” in government but decided to decline it.Former Wales minister Jo Stevens and science minister Liz Kendall have also not been given jobs in the new cabinet.The former Manchester mayor had been tight-lipped on his choice of appointments in the run-up to his inauguration (Lauren Hurley/No 10 Downing St)An MP from 2001 to 2017, Mr Burnham has kept many of his allies in Westminster close as he forges a new path as prime minister.The former mayor was a frontbencher during Gordon Brown’s administration – lasting from 2007 to 2010 – in a cabinet which at points also included ministers Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper, Pat McFadden and John Healey.Delivering his inaugural speech on the steps of Number 10, Mr Burnham urged people to “pull me with me” to “build a new national sense of unity, of common purpose and positivity”.“Let us make this the moment when Britain starts to believe again, the moment we bring back hope,” he said.During his six-minute address, he said he would set out a ten-year plan for Britain later this year, and measure to tackle the cost of living on Tuesday to give people “breathing space now”.He added: “I am acutely conscious that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to walk up this street, the seventh prime minister since 2016, making this a moment for reflection and new resolution.“It requires my generation of politicians to raise our game and rise to the new challenge.”In the crowd for Mr Burnham’s speech was his long-term friend and ally, Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram, former footballer Peter Reid, who played for Mr Burnham’s favourite team Everton, and Josh Simons, the former MP who stood in Makerfield to enable his return to Westminster.