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The frontbench of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition consists of the Shadow Cabinet and other official spokesmen of the political party currently serving as the Official Opposition. The Official Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet (normally referred to simply as The Shadow Cabinet) is, in British parliamentary practice, a group of members from Her Majestys Loyal Opposition whose job it is to scrutinise their opposite numbers in government and come up with alternative policies. ...
Her Majestys Loyal Opposition, or the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom is the largest opposition party in the House of Commons. ...
Currently the parliamentary Conservative Party is Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the UK, their full front bench team, as of May 2006 is listed below. A parliamentarian is a specialist in parliamentary procedure. ...
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The term Her Majestys loyal opposition can mean: Her Majestys loyal opposition (Australia) Her Majestys loyal opposition (Canada) Her Majestys loyal opposition (UK) This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
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The full front bench team
Not all parliamentary spokespersons are members of the shadow cabinet. This lists the full frontbench team, including shadow cabinet members and other spokespersons.
Conservative Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician, Leader of the Conservative Party, and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. ...
The Right Honourable Andrew James MacKay (born August 27, 1949, Birmingham) is a British politician, and for the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Bracknell. ...
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ...
Desmond Angus Swayne (born 20 August 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
The Conservative Party - Chairman of the Party - Rt Hon Francis Maude MP
- Chairman of the Policy Review and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department - Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
- Parliamentary Private Secretary (also Shadow Minister for Work & Pensions) - Tim Boswell MP
- Deputy Chairman (Conservative Future, Target Seats and Opinion Research) - Lord Ashcroft KCMG
- Deputy Chairman (Organisation and Campaigning) - Angela Browning MP
- Deputy Chairman (Candidates) - Hon Bernard Jenkin MP
- Deputy Chairman (Local Government) (also Shadow Minister for Local Government) - Eric Pickles MP
- Vice Chairman (Youth) - Justine Greening MP
- Vice Chairman (Women) - Margot James
- Vice Chairman (Campaigning) - Grant Shapps MP
- Vice Chairman (Business) - Richard Spring MP
- Vice Chairman (Cities) - Sayeeda Warsi
- Conservatives Abroad and Chairman of the International Office - Gary Streeter MP
- Chairman, Conservative Ethnic Diversity Council - Mohammed Sheikh
The Right Honourable Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude (born July 4, 1953) is a British politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Horsham, Chairman of the Conservative Party and a member of the Privy Council. ...
Oliver Letwin The Right Honourable Oliver Letwin (born May 19, 1956, Hampstead), British Member of Parliament for West Dorset, and Chairman of the Policy Review and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department. ...
Timothy Eric Boswell (born December 2, 1942) is an English politician, and Tory member of Parliament for Daventry since 1987. ...
Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft KCMG (born March 4, 1946) is a British businessman and politician who has been a member of the House of Lords since 2000. ...
Angela Frances Browning (born December 4, 1946) British politician. ...
The Honourable Bernard Christison Jenkin (born 9 April 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Eric Jack Pickles (born April 20, 1952, Keighley) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Justine Greening (born April 30, Rotherham) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament for Putney winning the seat in the 2005 election on 5 May 2005. ...
Margot James was the Candidate for the Conservative Party for the Holborn and St. ...
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Richard John Grenville Spring (born 24 September 1946, South Africa) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
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Gary Nicholas Streeter (born 2 October 1955) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Constitutional Affairs - Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs & Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (assisted by Shadow Solicitor General) - Oliver Heald MP
Oliver Heald (born 15 December 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Shadow Ministers (Lords) - Shadow Lord Chancellor - Rt Hon the Lord Kingsland QC TD DL
- Shadow Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs - Lord Henley
- Shadow Minister for Constitutional Affairs and Legal Affairs (also in Home Affairs Team) - Baroness Seccombe DBE
- Shadow Minister for Cabinet Office - Baroness Wilcox
The Barony of Henley has been created twice: first in the Peerage of Great Britain and then in the Peerage of Ireland. ...
Judith Ann Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox (born 31 October 1940) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
Culture, Media and Sport - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport - Hugo Swire MP
- Shadow Minister for Culture - Mark Field MP
- Shadow Minister for Culture, Media & Sport - Malcolm Moss MP
- Shadow Minister for Sport & the Olympics - Hugh Robertson MP
Hugo Swire MP Hugo George William Swire (born 30 November 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Mark Christopher Field (born October 6, 1964) is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. ...
Malcolm Douglas Moss (born 6 March 1943, Audenshaw, Manchester) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire North East. ...
Hugh Robertson (born 9 October 1962, Canterbury) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Shadow Ministers (Lords) - Shadow Minister for Culture, Media & Sport - Viscount Astor (Step-Father-in-Law of David Cameron)
- Shadow Minister for Sport - Lord Glentoran CBE DL
- Shadow Minister for Culture, Media & Sport (also in Defence & Wales Teams) - Lord Luke
Defence Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...
Defence - Shadow Ministers (Lords) - Lord Astor of Hever DL, Lord Luke
Conservative MP Liam Fox Dr Liam Fox (born September 22, 1961) is a UK Conservative politician, currently Shadow Defence Secretary and Member of Parliament for Woodspring. ...
Mark James Harper (born June 26, 1970) is the Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean. ...
James Gerald Douglas Howarth known as Gerald Howarth (born 12 September 1947, Hurley, Berkshire) is a British politician in the Conservative Party. ...
Julian Murray Lewis (born 26 September 1951, in Swansea, Wales) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for New Forest East in Hampshire. ...
Education David Willetts David Lindsay Willetts (born March 9, 1956) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Havant, in the United Kingdom. ...
Nicolas John Nick Gibb (born September 3, 1960) British politician He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. ...
John Henry Hayes (born 23 June 1958) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 in New York City, USA), better known as Boris Johnson (and occasionally as Bo-Jo within the UK tabloid press) is a British Conservative politician, journalist and historian, with a distinctive scatty and eccentric public persona. ...
Maria Frances Lewis Miller (born March 26, 1964, Wolverhampton) is the Conservative MP for Basingstoke. ...
Peta Jane Buscombe, Baroness Buscombe (born 12 March 1954) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
Environment Food and Rural Affairs - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food, & Rural Affairs, Peter Ainsworth MP
- Shadow Minister for the Environment, - Greg Barker MP
- Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Rural Affairs - James Paice MP
- Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries - Bill Wiggin MP
- Shadow Minister for Food & Rural Affairs (Lords) - Baroness Byford DBE
- Shadow Minister for Environment (Lords) - Lord Dixon-Smith DL
- Shadow Minister for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Lords) (also in Scotland Team) - The Duke of Montrose
Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey. ...
James Edward Thornton Paice (born 24 April 1949, Suffolk) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ...
William David Wiggin (born 4 June 1966) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford (born 14 January 1941) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
The title of Duke of Montrose was created in the peerage of Scotland in 1488 for David Lindsay. ...
Foreign Affairs William Jefferson Hague (born March 26, 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and currently Shadow Foreign Secretary. ...
Graham Stuart Brady (born May 20, 1967) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale West. ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (born March 23, 1953) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Cotswold. ...
Keith Robert Simpson (born 29 March 1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC, (born January 18, 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. ...
Health - Shadow Secretary of State for Health - Andrew Lansley MP CBE
- Shadow Minister - John Baron MP, Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Stephen O’Brien MP
- Shadow Minister for Children - Tim Loughton MP
- Shadow Ministers (Lords) - The Earl Howe, Professor the Lord McColl CBE
- Shadow Minister for Children - Baroness Morris of Bolton OBE
Andrew Lansley Andrew David Lansley CBE MP (born 11 December 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
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John Baron (born June 21, 1959) is a British politician, and Member of Parliament for Billericay. ...
Dr Andrew William Murrison (born 24 April 1961, Colchester) is a doctor and politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Timothy Paul Loughton (born 30 May 1962, in Eastbourne Sussex) is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for East Worthing and Shoreham since 1997. ...
For the article about the island go to Lord Howe Island. ...
Home Affairs - Shadow Ministers (Lords) - Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbots CBE, Baroness Seccombe DBE, The Viscount Bridgeman
David Davis The Right Honourable David Michael Davis (born December 23, 1948) is a British politician, Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden and Shadow Home Secretary. ...
Edward Henry Garnier QC (born 26 October 1952) is a barrister and politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Damian Howard Green (born January 17, 1956) is an English Conservative Party (UK) politician, and Member of Parliament for Ashford (UK Parliament constituency) in Kent. ...
Nicholas Le Quesne Herbert known as Nick Herbert (born 1963) is the Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs. ...
Patrick John Mercer MBE, OBE (born 26 June 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Andrew John Turner (born 24 October 1953, Coventry) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (born 17 July 1947) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
International Development Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield. ...
Mark Jonathon Mortlock Simmonds (born 12 April 1964, Worksop) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Law Officers (Assist the Home Affairs Team) - Shadow Attorney General & Shadow Spokesman on Community Cohesion - Dominic Grieve MP
- Shadow Solicitor General (also Shadow Minister for Trade & Industry) - Jonathan Djanogly MP
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born May 24, 1956) British politician and barrister He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and is the shadow Attorney General. ...
Jonathan Simon Djanogly (born June 3, 1965) is British politician and solicitor Conservative Member of Parliament for Huntingdon. ...
Parliament
Lords - Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords - Rt Hon Lord Strathclyde
- Deputy Leader - Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford
- Shadow Lord Chancellor - Rt Hon Lord Kingsland QC TD DL
Baron Strathclyde is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...
Commons Theresa May The Right Honourable Theresa Mary May (born in Eastbourne, Sussex on October 1, 1956 as Theresa Mary Brasier) is a British politician, former chairman of the Conservative Party, and Member of Parliament for Maidenhead. ...
Northern Ireland David Roy Lidington (June 30, 1956) is a Conservative Party poltitician in the United Kingdom, and has been member of Parliament for Aylesbury since 1992. ...
Laurence Anthony Robertson (born 29 March 1958, Bolton) is a British politician. ...
The title Viscount Bridgeman was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1929. ...
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - Caroline Spelman MP
- Shadow Minister for Communities & Local Government - Alistair Burt MP
- Shadow Minister for London - Jacqui Lait MP
- Shadow Minister for Housing - Michael Gove MP
- Shadow Minister for Local Government (also Deputy Chairman of the Party, Local Government)- Eric Pickles MP
- Shadow Minister for Local Government - Robert Syms MP
- Shadow Ministers (Lords - Baroness Hanham CBE, Lord Hanningfield DL
Caroline Alice Spelman (4 May 1958, East Anglia as Caroline Alice Cormack) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom who has served as MP for Meriden since 1997. ...
Stuff about Alistair Burt by Jessica Jarvis Alistair James Hendrie Burt (born May 25, 1955) is a British politician. ...
Jacqui Lait (born December 16, 1947, Paisley) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for Beckenham. ...
Michael Andrew Gove (born August 26, 1967, Edinburgh) is a British politician, journalist and author. ...
Eric Jack Pickles (born April 20, 1952, Keighley) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Robert Andrew Raymond Syms (born 15 August 1956, Chippenham) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham (born 23 September 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
Whips
Opposition Whips (House of Commons) Patrick Allen McLoughlin (born 30 November 1957, Staffordshire) is a British politician. ...
Andrew Robert George Robathan (born 17 July 1951) is a British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Blaby in Leicestershire. ...
Alexander John Randall (born 1955) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Simon Burns MP For other people named Burns, see Burns (disambiguation). ...
Dr Michael Louis David Fabricant (born 12 June 1950, Brighton) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Lichfield. ...
Angela Eileen Watkinson (born 18 November 1941, Leytonstone) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Henry Campbell Bellingham (born 29 March 1955) is an English politician and barrister. ...
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate. ...
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (born 27 April 1962) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
David Evennett is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath and Crayford. ...
Andrew Richard Rosindell (born March 17, 1966) is a British Conservative Member of Parliament for Romford, and a Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party. ...
Tobias Ellwood is the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East. ...
Opposition Whips (House of Lords) John Ambrose Cope, later Baron Cope of Berkeley is a British politician. ...
The title Viscount Bridgeman was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1929. ...
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham (born 23 September 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
The title of Duke of Montrose was created in the peerage of Scotland in 1488 for David Lindsay. ...
Scotland David Gordon Mundell (born 27 May 1962 in Dumfries) is a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP and former Member of the Scottish Parliament. ...
The title of Duke of Montrose was created in the peerage of Scotland in 1488 for David Lindsay. ...
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham (born 23 September 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
Trade and Industry - Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry - Alan Duncan MP
- Shadow Ministers Charles Hendry MP
- Shadow Minister for Women & Equality Eleanor Laing MP
- Shadow Minister for Small Business Mark Prisk MP
- Shadow Minister for Trade & Industry (also Shadow Solicitor General) Jonathan Djanogly MP
- Shadow Ministers (Lords) Baroness Miller of Hendon MBE, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbots CBE, Lord de Mauley TD
- Shadow Minister for Women Baroness Morris of Bolton OBE
Alan James Carter Duncan MP (born March 31, 1957) is a British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton. ...
Charles Hendry (born 6 May 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Eleanor Fulton Laing (born 1 February 1958, Paisley as Eleanor Fulton Pritchard) is a British politician. ...
Mark Michael Prisk (born 12 June 1962, Cornwall) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Jonathan Simon Djanogly (born June 3, 1965) is British politician and solicitor Conservative Member of Parliament for Huntingdon. ...
Transport Christopher Stephen Grayling (born 1 April 1962) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell. ...
Julian Brazier MP Julian William Hendy Brazier TD (born July 24, 1953) is a British politician. ...
Stephen William Hammond (born February 4, 1962, Southampton) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament for Wimbledon winning the seat in the 2005 election on 5 May 2005. ...
Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956, Whitchurch) is a British politician. ...
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham (born 23 September 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...
Treasury - Shadow Ministers (Lords) Baroness Noakes DBE, Lord Howard of Rising
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971 in London) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and has been Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001. ...
Theresa Anne Villiers (born March 5, 1968, London) is a British politician, who was Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the London constituency until 2005. ...
Mark Gino Francois (born August 14, 1965 in London) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Mark Gerard Hoban (born 31 March 1964, County Durham) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
There have been multiple well-known individuals named Paul Goodman: Paul Goodman (writer), US author, freethinker, anarchist and Gestalt Therapy contributor (see Paul Goodman page in the Anarchist Encyclopedia) Paul Goodman (sound engineer), winner of multiple Grammy Awards) Paul Alexander Cyril Goodman (United Kingdom politician) Paul Goodman an NHL hockey...
Wales - Shadow Ministers (Lords) - Rt Hon the Lord Roberts of Conwy, Lord Luke
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (born April 21, 1952, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, Mrs John Leeming) is a United Kingdom politician and has been Conservative Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham since 1992. ...
Work & Pensions - Shadow Ministers (Lords) Lord Skelmersdale, Baroness Noakes DBE, Lord Howard of Rising
Philip Hammond (born 4 December 1955, Epping, Essex) is a British politician. ...
Timothy Eric Boswell (born December 2, 1942) is an English politician, and Tory member of Parliament for Daventry since 1987. ...
Jeremy Hunt is the Conservative MP for Surrey South West. ...
Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh (born 20 September 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
David Laurie Ruffley (born 18 April 1962, Bolton) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Nigel Christopher Waterson (born 12 October 1950, Leeds) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
See also Parliamentary Opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system. ...
The Official Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet (normally referred to simply as The Shadow Cabinet) is, in British parliamentary practice, a group of members from Her Majestys Loyal Opposition whose job it is to scrutinise their opposite numbers in government and come up with alternative policies. ...
The Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is the politician who leads Her Majestys Loyal Opposition (the body in Parliament recognized as the Official Opposition). ...
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