Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK) of the Party until a new leader is elected. If a vacancy in the leadership occurs while the Labour Party is in government, then the Cabinet, in consultation with the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, chooses a new leader, who serves until a new leader is elected. To date, the only Deputy Leaders who have gone on to become the elected leader of the Labour Party are Clement Attlee and Michael Foot. Margaret Beckett briefly served as Labour leader following the unexpected death of John Smith in 1994. Harriet Harman was leader after Gordon Brown resigned in 2010
First Valls government Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian. Two ministers had not been part of the Ayrault Cabinet: Ségolène Royal, who had previously been Minister in the Bérégovoy Cabinet and junior Minister in the Jospin Cabinet, and François Rebsamen, who came from the position as leader of the Socialist Party group in the French Senate was included in a cabinet for the first time, becoming Minister of Labour. Apart from the prime minister, the cabinet had full gender parity, with eight female and eight male ministers. The average age of government ministers at the time of appointment was 54, with Laurent Fabius