Labour Party Shadow Cabinet

Labour Party Shadow Cabinet

Members of Shadow Cabinet (Jan 2016) sorted according to Leadership Nominations

Members shown in bold voted for the bombing of Syria in December 2015.

Andy Burnham

• Heidi Alexander - Shadow Health Secretary
• Owen Smith - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• Lilian Greenwood - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
• Hilary Benn - Shadow Foreign Secretary
• Andy Burnham - Shadow Home Secretary
• Lucy Powell - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
• Lisa Nandy - Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
• Luciana Berger - Shadow Minister for Mental Health
• Kerry McCarthy - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Nia Griffith - Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

Yvette Cooper

• Vernon Coaker - Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• Maria Eagle - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
• Seema Malhotra - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Kate Green - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
• Catherine McKinnell - Shadow Attorney General
• Chris Bryant - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• John Healey - Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning
• Jonathan Ashworth - Shadow Minister without Portfolio

Liz Kendall

• Gloria De Piero - Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration
• Angela Smith - Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

Jeremy Corbyn

• Jeremy Corbyn - Leader of the Labour Party
• John McDonnell - Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Diane Abbott - Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
• Jon Trickett - Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention
• Emily Thornberry - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

Did not nominate any candidate

• Angela Eagle - Shadow First Secretary of State and Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Rosie Winterton - Opposition Chief Whip
• Ian Murray - Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• Tom Watson - Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

Other

• Lord Falconer of Thoroton - Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
• Lord Bassam of Brighton - Lords Chief Whip

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