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Monday, 11 June, 2001, 22:01 GMT 23:01 UK
Ministerial winners and losers
![]() Gisela Stuart and Tony Blair on the campaign trail
BBC News Online looks at who is in and who is out in Tony Blair's ministerial reshuffle.
Some of the winners Former Social Security Secretary Harriet Harman becomes solicitor general Former Welsh First Minister Alun Michael is appointed minister for rural affairs at the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Richard Caborn becomes sports minister
Lord Goldsmith becomes attorney general Ruth Kelly is appointed economic secretary at The Treasury Douglas Alexander is named minister for e-commerce and competitiveness Stephen Twigg is named as junior minister at the Leader of the House of Commons office
Exeter MP and former BBC journalist Ben Bradshaw becomes a junior Foreign Office minister Denis McShane is appointed a junior minister at the Foreign Office Mr Blair's long-time political secretary, Sally Morgan, has been made a peer and named as a minister of state at the Cabinet Office Hilary Benn, son of veteran leftwinger Tony Benn, enters the Department for International Development as a junior minister Maria Eagle joins her twin sister in the ministerial ranks as a junior minister at the Department for Work and Pensions
Some of the losers Former Europe Minister Keith Vaz is the least surprising casualty of the reshuffle
Former Home Office Minster Mike O'Brien is a surprising casualty Former Agriculture Minister Joyce Quin returns to the backbenches at her own request Chris Mullin, the former International Development Minister, tells Tony Blair to give his job to somebody else Edgbaston MP and junior health minister last time around Gisela Stuart loses her job Alan Howarth former Arts minister is out Ross Cranston former solicitor general is replaced Baroness Hayman, minister at the old Ministry of Agriculture, is sacked Lord Bassam is removed as a junior minister at the Home Office Janet Anderson who was a minister for tourism returns to the backbenches
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