In what appears to be a bid to shake things up at labour HQ and inject some new faces into the media, Ed Miliband has given his shadow cabinet a minor reshuffle. Thanks to a vote by the Labour Party to allow their leader to choose their own shadow cabinet members, he’s been given the freedom to include 6 new members from the 2010 intake. With the next UK general election not set to take place until 2015, it could work out well for Labour to change things up a bit early to give them a long run in to the general election.
The new faces include Chuka Umunna (MP for Streatham) who has been appointed as the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Rachel Reeves (Leeds West) who is now the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby) as the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Liz Kendall (Leicester West) Shadow Minister for Care and Older People, Margaret Curran (Glasgow East) as the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and Michael Dugher (Barnsley East) who is now Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office).
Ed Miliband’s reshuffled Shadow Cabinet is:
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party
Ed Miliband MP
Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, Party Chair and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Harriet Harman MP
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ed Balls MP
Shadow Foreign Secretary
Douglas Alexander MP
Shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities
Yvette Cooper MP
Shadow Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Sadiq Khan MP
Shadow Chief Whip
Rosie Winterton MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Andy Burnham MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Stephen Twigg MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chuka Umunna MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Jim Murphy MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Hilary Benn MP
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Angela Eagle MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Caroline Flint MP
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Rachel Reeves MP
Shadow Minister for London and the Olympics
Tessa Jowell MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
Maria Eagle MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Policy Review Co-ordinator
Liam Byrne MP
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Ivan Lewis MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mary Creagh MP
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
Jon Trickett MP
Labour Party Deputy Chair and Campaign Coordinator
Tom Watson MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Vernon Coaker MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
Margaret Curran MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Chair of the National Policy Forum
Peter Hain MP
Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Lords Chief Whip
Lord Bassam of Brighton
Also attending Shadow Cabinet:
Shadow Minister for Care and Older People
Liz Kendall MP
Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Michael Dugher MP
Shadow Attorney General
Emily Thornberry MP
Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Lord Stewart Wood
