Transport minister Geoff Hoon has become the latest cabinet minister to resign.
His resignation comes as the Prime Minister Gordon Brown struggled to maintain his authority.
Hoon's departure marks the fifth ministerial resignation in four days.
His replacement will be Lord Adonis
The full government line-up following today's reshuffle:
Prime Minister: Gordon Brown
Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal; Minister for Women and Equality (and deputising for the Prime Minister at PMQs) :Harriet Harman
First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Lord President of the Council: Lord Mandelson
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Alistair Darling
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: David Miliband
Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor: Jack Straw
Secretary of State for the Home Department: Alan Johnson
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hilary Benn
Secretary of State for International Development: Douglas Alexander
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government: John Denham
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families: Ed Balls
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change: Ed Miliband
Secretary of State for Health: Andy Burnham
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Shaun Woodward
Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Minister for the Cabinet Office, and for the Olympics and Paymaster General: Tessa Jowell
Secretary of State for Scotland: Jim Murphy
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Yvette Cooper
Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Liam Byrne
Secretary of State for Wales: Peter Hain
Secretary of State for Defence: Bob Ainsworth
Secretary of State for Transport: Lord Adonis
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport: Ben Bradshaw
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