Dame Angela Eagle DBE appointed Security Minister at Home Office

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DAME ANGELA Eagle DBE has been appointed Minister of State (Security Minister) at both the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, replacing Dan Jarvis MBE who now takes on the role of Secretary of State for Defence as a result of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Government reshuffle.

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Veteran Labour politician Eagle was previously Minister of State in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (a post that ran from 6 September 2025 to 12 June this year) and Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum) at the Home Office from 8 July 2024 to 6 September last year.

Eagle was elected as the MP for Wallasey in the General Election of July 2024 having first been elected to Parliament back in 1992, when she became the first Labour member of Parliament for Wallasey.

In her time as MP for Wallasey, Eagle has served as a minister in several departments. Under Tony Blair, these included Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Social Security and Home Affairs. She also served as Opposition Whip in Blair’s regime.

In Gordon Brown’s Government, Eagle served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society.

In Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet, Eagle served as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. In 2011, she became Shadow Leader of the House. In 2015, she was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, a position that she held until June 2016.

Intelligence and Security Committee

During her time as a backbencher, Eagle has sat on the Treasury Select Committee and the Intelligence and Security Committee and held a number of positions within the Labour Party (including membership of the National Executive Committee and chair of the Equalities Committee).

Eagle is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Oxford and was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2021 in recognition of her Parliamentary and political service.

The Minister of State (Minister for Security) is tasked with several key responsibilities, among them addressing counter-terrorism and counter-extremism, state threats, cyber security and crime, serious and organised crime, oversight of the National Crime Agency, international criminality, aviation and maritime security, economic crime (excluding fraud), MP security and VIP protection, online safety and anti-corruption.