"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. Smith became leader upon succeeding Neil Kinnock, who had resigned following the 1992 general election—for the fourth successive time, the Conservatives had won and Labour lost. Prior to being Leader of the Opposition, Smith had been a member of the Government of James Callaghan as President of the Board of Trade (1978–1979), and served under his predecessor Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (1987–1992). Smith's tenure"
"infiltrated by the ""intolerant hard left"". Centrist Labour MPs rallied around Leslie online. In February 2005, he married Nicola Murphy, a special adviser to Gordon Brown, in Westminster; the couple became engaged the previous year. In April 2016, Nicola Murphy founded Labour Tomorrow, an organisation which funds Labour-connected activists and groups who oppose Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. Chris Leslie Christopher Michael Leslie (born 28 June 1972) is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East since 2010. In 2015, between May and September, he served as Shadow Chancellor of the"
"of step with party members"" and voters. During the interview he said deselection of MPs such as Chris Leslie, one of the Labour MPs named by McCluskey, was ""a matter for Labour Party members in each constituency and not a matter for me or indeed Len"". Chris Williamson (politician) Christopher Williamson (born 16 September 1956) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Derby North since 8 June 2017, having served previously for the same seat from 2010 until 2015. He was Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government for three years between October 2010"
"as John Healey serves as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, as Jeremy Corbyn has indicated that if Labour form the next government, they will create a separate government department for housing. He was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister without Portfolio by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and then became Campaigns and Elections Chair in February 2017. He is a member of the Unite Trade Union, the Co-operative Party and the Christians on the Left. Born and brought up in Manchester, Gwynne was educated at Egerton Park Community High School (now called Denton Community College)"
"becoming the youngest MP of that parliament. He held the seat at the 2001 election and became a junior minister. A number of traditional Labour supporters considered Leslie to be an ardent Blairite, though he was in fact equally close to Gordon Brown, one of whose staff he married, and whose campaign for election as Labour leader he helped run. Leslie narrowly lost the seat in the 2005 election, when the Conservative Party candidate Philip Davies narrowly regained the seat with a majority of 422 votes, which then increased to nearly ten thousand votes at the May 2010 general election."
"Liberal International Affairs Council of Advisors, providing advice on foreign and defence issues to Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau. Leslie also ran to be the Liberal candidate in the 2015 general election in the riding of Orléans. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Orléans in the 2015 election ahead of Conservative incumbent Royal Galipeau. Leslie was elected into the House of Commons of Canada as a MP and on November 20, 2015, he was named Chief Government Whip in the Commons. On February 15, 2016, Leslie was sworn in as a Member of the Queen's Privy"
"Minister. Leslie became more prominent in 2013 after the publication of the report of the Francis Inquiry into the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. She was praised for her campaign calling for David Nicholson, the Chief Executive of the NHS, to resign. This culminated in her winning ""Backbencher of the Year"" at The Spectator’s 2013 Parliamentarian of the Year awards. She has also led calls in Parliament for the creation of a Royal College of Teaching, publishing a book on the subject in 2013. She is a trustee on the Teacher Development Trust. She re-formed the All Party Parliamentary"
"lost his parliamentary seat in the 2015 general election. Leslie supported Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour leadership election, and was critical of the economic policies of Jeremy Corbyn, calling them ""starry-eyed, hard left"". On 12 September 2015, Leslie resigned from the Labour front bench following the election of Corbyn as party leader. Leslie is a member of the Labour Friends of Israel. In June 2018 Leslie published a pamphet through the Social Market Foundation, where he is a member of the Policy Advisory Board, entitled ""Centre Ground: Six Values of Mainstream Britain"". In August the same year ""The Guardian"""
"Eccles, and received the backing of Unite Union, Salford's elected mayor, Ian Stewart, and former Salford council leader John Merry, when the Labour Party decided to have a woman-only shortlist. Long-Bailey was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. After winning the leadership of the party, Corbyn replaced Hilary Benn on Labour's NEC with Long-Bailey. In June 2016, Long-Bailey was appointed as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury after mass resignations from the shadow cabinet necessitated a reshuffle. Following Clive Lewis's resignation from the Shadow Cabinet on 8"
"Group (APPG) for Boxing in 2011, and is its current chair. She is also a member of the APPGs on Autism, Beer, National Citizens’ Service and Volunteering, and Sport. She was praised in Chancellor George Osborne’s budget speech of 2012 for her campaign to scrap the beer duty escalator, which added 2% plus inflation to the cost of beer each year. Osborne removed the escalator and cut 1p off beer duty. In April 2014 she apologised to the House for failing to declare £17,000 of donations in the register of MPs' interests. Leslie chaired the Commons all-party group on Saudi"
"reported that ""many saw the document as laying the intellectual groundwork for a future new [political] party,"" however Leslie denied this. In September 2018, Leslie lost confidence vote by his CLP and became the fourth Labour MP to have a motion passed against him. The motion, brought by members of the Mapperley branch of Nottingham East, attacked Leslie for his “disloyalty and deceit”, which it dubbed “a severe impediment to Labour Party electability”, and “incompatible” with Leslie continuing as the Labour candidate for Nottingham East. Leslie did not attend the vote and had earlier remarked that the party had been"
"of a conflict of interest when he interviews his fiancée. The presenter strongly objected to the change. In July 2016 she announced that they had broken up ""a few months ago"". Charlotte Leslie Charlotte Leslie (born 11 August 1978 in Liverpool) is a British Conservative Party politician who is the current Director of the Conservative Middle East Council. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bristol North West constituency, losing her seat in the 2017 general election Born in Liverpool in 1978, Leslie moved to Bristol with her family when she was two. Her father worked as an"
"before being named in her current role of Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning, and Rural Affairs in November 2017. In October 2018 Griffiths used her ministerial office to overturn the decision of a planning inspector to refuse a proposed wind farm near Llandrindod Wells. In November the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales announced that it was challenging this in the High Court. Lesley Griffiths Susan Lesley Griffiths AM (known as Lesley Griffiths, born 1960) is a Welsh Labour politician. She worked as a secretary to John Marek and the constituency assistant to Ian Lucas, successive Members of Parliament"
"shadow Northern Ireland portfolio. Also, Liam Byrne and Stephen Twigg moved respectively from Work and Pensions and from Education to junior shadow ministerial positions at Business and Education. Prominent promotions included Tristram Hunt to Education, Rachel Reeves to Work and Pensions, Vernon Coaker to Defence, and Chris Leslie to Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Douglas Alexander was appointed Chair of General Election Strategy and Planning. Also attending Shadow Cabinet meetings: 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."
"where Mifsud was a delegate for the Electrical Trades Union. The couple have two children together. Chris Bowen Christopher Eyles Guy Bowen (born 17 January 1973) is an Australian politician who is the current Shadow Treasurer of Australia. Bowen is a senior Labor Right figure. He was briefly the Interim Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition in 2013 after Labor lost the federal election. Before this he served in a number of positions in the Rudd and Gillard Governments, including as Minister for Financial Services, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, and Treasurer. He was first elected"
"Charlotte Leslie Charlotte Leslie (born 11 August 1978 in Liverpool) is a British Conservative Party politician who is the current Director of the Conservative Middle East Council. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bristol North West constituency, losing her seat in the 2017 general election Born in Liverpool in 1978, Leslie moved to Bristol with her family when she was two. Her father worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Her mother is a British triathlon champion for her age group, and in 2013, finished 9th in the World"
"changes. Knowles held the seat with a reduced majority in 1987, but John Heppell gained it for Labour in 1992, and held the seat until he retired in 2010. It is presently held by Labour's Chris Leslie. Leslie previously represented the West Yorkshire constituency of Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and joined the front benches serving as a junior minister as part of the Tony Blair Government. General Election 1939/40: Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by"
"officer with the Territorial Army, and he served a three-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009. Lewis often broke the party line on issues including nuclear weapons, tuition fees and immigration. Describing himself as a ""proud socialist"", he was also appointed as the Chair of the Humanist APPG. During the 2015 Labour leadership election, he was one of 36 MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn, and has remained a strong supporter. Appointed to Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in June 2016, Lewis was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in"
"Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Shadow Secretary of State for Housing The Shadow Secretary of State for Housing is a position in the United Kingdom's Shadow Cabinet that was created on 7 October 2016 by the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn during a cabinet reshuffle. This position succeeds the position of Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning, and as of present shadows the Minister for Housing and Planning in Her Majesty's Government. The office has only been held by John Healey. Key The current Shadow Housing team was updated on 11 May 2018, with Sarah Jones replacing Tony"
"Shadow Secretary of State for Housing The Shadow Secretary of State for Housing is a position in the United Kingdom's Shadow Cabinet that was created on 7 October 2016 by the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn during a cabinet reshuffle. This position succeeds the position of Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning, and as of present shadows the Minister for Housing and Planning in Her Majesty's Government. The office has only been held by John Healey. Key The current Shadow Housing team was updated on 11 May 2018, with Sarah Jones replacing Tony Lloyd after his appointment as Shadow"
"was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He then moved to spend almost two years as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Constitutional Affairs, working again under Falconer from 2003 to 2005. He never rebelled against a Government position during his first time in Parliament including voting in favour of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Leslie lost his seat to Philip Davies in the 2005 general election who regained the seat for the Conservatives by fewer than 500 votes. Leslie led Gordon Brown's successful (and uncontested) campaign for the"
"Council for Canada according to his duties as Chief Government Whip. Andrew Leslie (general) Andrew Brooke Leslie (born December 26, 1957) is a retired Canadian Forces Lieutenant-General who served as Chief of Transformation and earlier as Chief of the Land Staff. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament for the riding of Orléans, after being elected in the October 19, 2015, federal election. Andrew Leslie was born in Ottawa in 1957. His father was Brigadier General Edward Murray Dalziel Leslie (né McNaughton), commander of 1st Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (1 RCHA) during the Korean War. Leslie's father changed the"
"Mosley with a majority of 93 votes, having the 3rd smallest majority of a parliamentary constituency in the UK after the 2015 general election. In July 2015 he became a member of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. In the Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015 Chris Matheson nominated Andy Burnham to be leader of the Labour Party. On 27 June 2016, Matheson resigned from his role as Justice Parliamentary Private Secretary, joining many members of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet team who resigned following the result of the EU referendum result. He went on to nominate Owen Smith for"
"1970. In the process, Leslie overturned a 12,382 majority, to return a 2,966 majority of his own. It was the neighbouring seat to his hometown of Keighley, another seat taken by Labour from the Conservatives in 1997. Leslie was the Baby of the House when he first entered the Commons. He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Falconer for three-and-a-half years.Leslie held his seat in 2001, but his majority was reduced by a half to 1,428. Shortly before his 30th birthday, he became a junior minister in the Cabinet Office in 2001, following the recent election. In 2002, he"
"and food-bank use. In her Maiden Speech Lee reiterated her support for Lincoln University in its efforts to secure funding for a Medical School. Following this support, in March 2018 Lincoln University confirmed that it will be building a new Medical School. In July 2017 Lee was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. In January 2018, Lee was promoted to Labour’s Shadow Home Office Team as Shadow Minister for Fire and Rescue Services. Lee is responsible for formulating Labour’s national fire policy and is the party’s spokesperson for fire and emergency services. In this role, Lee has"
"1987 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election The annual election to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its ""Parliamentary Committee"") was conducted in 1987. In addition to the 16 members elected, the Leader (Neil Kinnock), Deputy Leader (Roy Hattersley), Labour Chief Whip (Derek Foster), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Cledwyn Hughes), and Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Stanley Orme) were automatically members. Following the 1987 general election, there were significant changes to the cabinet. Barry Jones, Peter Shore, Peter Archer and Giles Radice lost their seats, and other familiar faces such as Denis Healey did not"
"John Healey (politician) John Healey (born 13 February 1960) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997 and Shadow Secretary of State for Housing since 2016. Following the 2010 general election, he was elected to the Shadow Cabinet and was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health. He stood down from the role in October 2011 and was succeeded by Andy Burnham. He currently serves as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing under Jeremy Corbyn, and works alongside Andrew Gwynne, the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government."
"track records of failure in various parts of the local NHS."" Lewis maintains the Care Quality Commission has, ""the power to put the trust into Special Administration and get rid of this board"". It was suggested that Lewis could serve as either Shadow Secretary of State for Defence or as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in a Jeremy Corbyn-led shadow cabinet. It has also been suggested that Lewis could succeed Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, although Lewis has said of the suggestion: ""Personally, I think it's the political kiss of death"". However, following the"
"was believed to be a potential candidate for the Labor leadership, however, did not contest it. As a result, John Robertson was elected unopposed as Keneally's replacement, and Daley was appointed as Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Finance and Services in the Robertson shadow ministry. Following Luke Foley's resignation of the role, Daley nominated for the role of New South Wales Labor leader and Leader of the New South Wales Opposition. On 10 November 2018, Daley won the leadership spill against Chris Minns 33 votes to 12 and was elected as the Leader of the Labor Party in New"
"in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, Leslie attended Bingley Grammar School before becoming a student at Leeds University graduating in 1994 with a BA in Politics & Parliamentary Studies, and gaining an MA in Industrial and Labour Studies in 1996. From 1994 to 1996, he was an office administrator, later a political research assistant in Bradford in 1996–97. He was elected to Parliament a month before his 25th birthday. Leslie gained the seat of Shipley as a Labour Co-operative candidate in the 1997 general election defeating Marcus Fox, the chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee and Shipley's Conservative MP since"
"to grant planning permission was dismissed. Leslie lives in Westbury-on-Trym in her former constituency. In her spare time, she enjoys surfing, writing, art, Bob Dylan, running and swimming. She is the President of Avonmouth National Smelting Company Boxing Club. In 2011, website sexymp.co.uk ranked her as the sexiest MP in Parliament. She became engaged to John Darvall, a BBC Radio Bristol presenter and twice married father of four, on Christmas Day, 2014. Just before the 2015 general election Darvall was moved from his news based morning show to an afternoon slot to protect the BBC's impartiality and to avoid accusations"
"the Shadow Cabinet Ian Murray and Douglas Alexander, all former members of the Club and University alumni, as well as ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, leader of the Scottish Labour Party Johann Lamont, Kezia Dugdale MSP and Andrew Burns, leader of Edinburgh City Council. Edinburgh Labour Students run a varied schedule with regular meetings being used as forums for members to engage in topical discussions under the name 'Pint and Policy'. It also frequently encourages members to participate in campaigns with local Labour branches and in national events for the Labour Party and Labour Students. ELS' events are frequently"
"leadership election stated they would support Corbyn, that the result should be accepted and the party should focus on attacking the Conservative government. During the announcement of Corbyn's victory, Jamie Reed resigned as a Shadow Health Minister, citing his difference in opinion, with the new leader, over the replacement of the Trident missile system. Chris Leslie (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer), Yvette Cooper (Shadow Home Secretary), Chuka Umunna (Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills), Rachel Reeves (Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions), Emma Reynolds (Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government), Tristram Hunt"