The new prime minister enters Number 10 in a flurry of activity - but he is still facing calls for a snap election.

Shortly after Andy Burnham telephoned a number of Keir Starmer's allies to sack them from the cabinet on Monday afternoon, John Healey received the signal to head to Number 10. Wearing a suit and one of his many red ties, the former defence secretary left parliament alone via a back entrance next to a pub. "I'm on my way to a meeting," he said with a slight smile as he marched down Whitehall. Healey's imminent appointment as chancellor was a surprise - to him, to his Labour colleagues, and to the British public. It was a consequential moment among a flurry of announcements from the new prime minister, including today's cut in VAT on energy bills, that demonstrate the new government's intention to move at breakneck speed - at least for now. Five weeks earlier Healey had weakened Keir Starmer's grip on Downing Street by quitting as defence secretary in a row over military spending. Soon he would be back around the cabinet table alongside two others whose recent resignations had also damaged Starmer - new defence secretary Wes Streeting and new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh. Were they rewarded for rebelling and hastening Burnham's path to office? Possibly.