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Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

Index Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Shadow Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet responsible for working with the Leader of the House in arranging Commons business and holding the Government to account in its overall management of the House. [1]

60 relations: Alan Duncan, Alastair Goodlad, Alec Douglas-Home, Angela Browning, Angela Eagle, Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, Chris Bryant, Chris Grayling, Clement Attlee, Conservative Party (UK), Edward Heath, Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, Eric Forth, First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath, First Shadow Cabinet of Harriet Harman, Francis Pym, Frank Dobson, Fred Peart, Baron Peart, George Brown, Baron George-Brown, George Young, Baron Young of Cookham, Gillian Shephard, Harold Wilson, Herbert Morrison, Hilary Benn, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Hugh Gaitskell, Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, Jim Prior, John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, John Silkin, Labour Party (UK), Leader of the House of Commons, Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Margaret Beckett, Michael Foot, Nick Brown, Norman St John-Stevas, Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom), Oliver Heald, Paul Flynn (politician), Peter Shore, Rosie Winterton, Second Shadow Cabinet of Harold Wilson, Selwyn Lloyd, Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron, Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband, Shadow Cabinet of Iain Duncan Smith, Shadow Cabinet of James Callaghan, Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn, Shadow Cabinet of John Major, ..., Shadow Cabinet of John Smith, Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Beckett, Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher, Shadow Cabinet of Michael Foot, Shadow Cabinet of Michael Howard, Shadow Cabinet of Neil Kinnock, Shadow Cabinet of Tony Blair, Shadow Cabinet of William Hague, Theresa May, Valerie Vaz. Expand index (10 more) »

Alan Duncan

Sir Alan James Carter Duncan (born 31 March 1957) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Alastair Goodlad

Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad (born 4 July 1943) is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005.

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Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.

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Angela Browning

Angela Frances Browning, Baroness Browning (née Pearson; born 4 December 1946) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Angela Eagle

Angela Eagle (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since the 1992 general election.

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Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton

Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, PC (born 2 July 1947) is a British Labour Party politician, who was Minister for International Defence and Security, based at both the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, from October 2008 until 11 May 2010.

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Chris Bryant

Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda since the 2001 general election and most recently the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons until resigning on 26 June 2016.

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Chris Grayling

Christopher Stephen Grayling (born 1 April 1962) is a British politician and author serving as the Secretary of State for Transport since July 2016, and as a member of the House of Commons since 2001.

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Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.

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Edward Short, Baron Glenamara

Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara, (17 December 1912 – 4 May 2012) was a British Labour politician.

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Eric Forth

Eric Forth (9 September 1944 – 17 May 2006) was a British politician.

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First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath

The First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath was created on 28 July 1965 after the Conservative Party elected Edward Heath as its leader, replacing Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

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First Shadow Cabinet of Harriet Harman

Harriet Harman led the Shadow Cabinet during her time as pro tempore Leader of the Labour Party in 2010—from the time Gordon Brown resigned as Leader (and Prime Minister) until Ed Miliband was elected to the leadership.

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Francis Pym

Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, MC, PC (13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) was a British politician.

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Frank Dobson

Frank Gordon Dobson (born 15 March 1940) is a British Labour Party politician.

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Fred Peart, Baron Peart

Thomas Frederick Peart, Baron Peart, PC (30 April 1914 – 26 August 1988) was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.

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George Brown, Baron George-Brown

George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, (2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985) was a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and also in several Cabinet posts, including Foreign Secretary during the Labour government of the 1960s.

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George Young, Baron Young of Cookham

George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire since 1997 and Ealing Acton prior to that.

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Gillian Shephard

Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, PC, DL (née Watts; born 22 January 1940) is an English Conservative politician.

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Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.

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Herbert Morrison

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British Labour politician who held a variety of senior positions in the Cabinet.

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Hilary Benn

Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (born 26 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central since the by-election in 1999.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hugh Gaitskell

Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician and Leader of the Labour Party.

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Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling

John Anderson Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, PC, DL (born 4 August 1939) is a British politician who was the Labour Member of Parliament for Copeland from the 1983 to the 2005 general elections, and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.

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Jim Prior

James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC (11 October 1927 – 12 December 2016), usually known as Jim Prior, was a British Conservative politician.

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John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil

John Wynne William Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, (13 February 1919 – 22 November 2006) was a British politician.

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John Silkin

John Ernest Silkin (18 March 1923 – 26 April 1987) was a British left-wing Labour politician and solicitor.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Leader of the House of Commons

The Leader of the House of Commons is generally a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons.

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Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)

The Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition (more commonly known as the Leader of the Opposition) is the politician who leads the official opposition in the United Kingdom.

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Margaret Beckett

Dame Margaret Mary Beckett (born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983.

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Michael Foot

Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.

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Nick Brown

Nicholas Hugh Brownhttp://www.newcastle.gov.uk/your-council/lord-mayor/honorary-freedom-citations#nbrownmp (born 13 June 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East since 1983.

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Norman St John-Stevas

Norman Panayea St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, (18 May 1929 – 2 March 2012) was a British politician, author, and barrister.

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Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)

The Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (usually known simply as the Shadow Cabinet) is, in British parliamentary practice, senior members of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition who scrutinise their corresponding Government ministers, develop alternative policies, and hold the Government to account for its actions and responses.

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Oliver Heald

Sir Oliver Heald (born 15 December 1954) is a British barrister and Conservative politician, who currently serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hertfordshire.

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Paul Flynn (politician)

Paul Philip Flynn (born 9 February 1935) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport West since the 1987 general election.

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Peter Shore

Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney, PC (20 May 1924 – 24 September 2001) was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community.

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Rosie Winterton

Dame Rosalie Winterton, (born 10 August 1958) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Second Shadow Cabinet of Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson of the Labour Party would form his Second Shadow Cabinet, as Leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition, after losing the 1970 general election to Conservative Edward Heath.

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Selwyn Lloyd

John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, (28 July 1904 – 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British politician.

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Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron

The list that follows are the Shadow Cabinets led by David Cameron from 2005 to 2010, before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition upon being elected to the former post on 25 September 2010.

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Shadow Cabinet of Iain Duncan Smith

The UK Shadow Cabinet (see also Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (UK)) was appointed by Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith.

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Shadow Cabinet of James Callaghan

James Callaghan became Leader of the Opposition on 4 May 1979 after losing the 1979 election and remained in that office until Michael Foot was elected Leader of the Labour Party on 2 October 1980.

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Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn assumed the position of Leader of the Opposition after being elected as Leader of the Labour Party on 12 September 2015; the election was triggered by Ed Miliband's resignation following the Labour Party's electoral defeat at the 2015 general election when David Cameron formed a majority Conservative government.

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Shadow Cabinet of John Major

John Major, Leader of the Conservative Party was Leader of the Opposition from 2 May 1997, following his defeat at the 1997 general election, until 19 June 1997, when William Hague was elected to succeed him.

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Shadow Cabinet of John Smith

John Smith was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Official Opposition from 18 July 1992 until his death on 12 May 1994.

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Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Beckett

Margaret Beckett led the United Kingdom Shadow Cabinet when she was Leader of the Labour Party on a pro tempore Leader of the Opposition basis between the death of John Smith on 12 May 1994 and Tony Blair's election as Leader on 21 July 1994, an election in which Beckett was also a candidate.

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Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher became the first female Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition after winning the 1975 leadership election, the first Conservative leadership election where the post was not vacant.

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Shadow Cabinet of Michael Foot

Michael Foot was Leader of the Opposition from 4 November 1980, following his victory in the 1980 leadership election, to 2 October 1983, when he was replaced by Neil Kinnock at the 1983 leadership election.

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Shadow Cabinet of Michael Howard

The Shadow Cabinets appointed by Michael Howard, a Conservative, are listed below.

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Shadow Cabinet of Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2 October 1983 to 18 July 1992.

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Shadow Cabinet of Tony Blair

Tony Blair, as Leader of the Labour Party, was Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom from his election as Leader on 21 July 1994 until he became Prime Minister on 2 May 1997.

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Shadow Cabinet of William Hague

The Shadow Cabinet appointed by Conservative Party leader William Hague was the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet from 1997 to 2001.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary May (Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016.

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Valerie Vaz

Valerie Carol Marian Vaz (born 7 December 1954) is a British politician and solicitor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons

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