Liam Byrne replacing Hazel Blears, one of the highest-profile roles in the government outside the cabinet. However, just a fortnight later Home Secretary John Reid moved him to the immigration role, switching portfolios with Tony McNulty. McNulty had been connected with the foreign prisoners scandal that caused Tony Blair to sack Charles Clarke in May 2006. Byrne's move was seen as an attempt by Reid to establish an entirely new team to sort out the immigration system. During this period he was also Minister for the West Midlands. Gordon Brown named him Minister for the Cabinet Office in October 2008, replacing the
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Rahmatullah the British government should have tried harder to secure Yunus Rahmatullah's release. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Rahmatullah Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah "[2012] UKSC 48" was a 2012 judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom concerning the detention of Yunus Rahmatullah, a Pakistani citizen detained in Iraq, and later Afghanistan, who is alleged to have travelled to Iraq to fight for Al-Qaeda during the Second Iraq War. Yunus Rahmatullah is a Pakistani citizen who was suspected of having travelled to Iraq to become a fighter for Al-Qaeda.