shadow cabinet
noun
: a group of leaders of a parliamentary opposition who constitute the probable membership of the cabinet when their party is returned to power
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In Leicester South, a seat in an industrial city in the English Midlands, Labour shadow cabinet member Jonathan Ashworth lost his seat by 979 votes to Shockat Adam, an independent candidate who made his support for Gaza a key part of his electoral pledge to voters.
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Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 July 2024
In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim.
—NBC News, 5 July 2024
After securing the leadership by being sufficiently left-leaning, Starmer systematically purged his party, including of Corbyn himself, while pushing for moderate parliamentary candidates and including middle-of-the-road voices for top jobs in his shadow cabinet.
—E.j. Dionne, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
He was elected to Parliament in 2015 at the age of 52 and entered the shadow cabinet a little over a year later.
—Luke McGee, CNN, 23 June 2024
Keir Starmer, Labour leader, received a number of frontbench resignations from members of Parliament today who held positions in the opposition's shadow cabinet.
—NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet were among those at the Ditchley Park retreat in Oxfordshire.
—Eddie Spence, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
Rob Ford, a politics expert at the University of Manchester, drew parallels to 2016 when, following the Brexit vote, the then leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, suffered mass resignations from his shadow cabinet in an attempt to oust the Labour leader.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
As if to illustrate the point, a succession of high-profile MPs announced positive tests on Tuesday, including Labour shadow cabinet members Rachel Reeves, Bridget Phillipson and Jim McMahon, and Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey.
—Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2021
Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 July 2024
In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim.
—NBC News, 5 July 2024
After securing the leadership by being sufficiently left-leaning, Starmer systematically purged his party, including of Corbyn himself, while pushing for moderate parliamentary candidates and including middle-of-the-road voices for top jobs in his shadow cabinet.
—E.j. Dionne, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
He was elected to Parliament in 2015 at the age of 52 and entered the shadow cabinet a little over a year later.
—Luke McGee, CNN, 23 June 2024
Keir Starmer, Labour leader, received a number of frontbench resignations from members of Parliament today who held positions in the opposition's shadow cabinet.
—NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet were among those at the Ditchley Park retreat in Oxfordshire.
—Eddie Spence, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
Rob Ford, a politics expert at the University of Manchester, drew parallels to 2016 when, following the Brexit vote, the then leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, suffered mass resignations from his shadow cabinet in an attempt to oust the Labour leader.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
As if to illustrate the point, a succession of high-profile MPs announced positive tests on Tuesday, including Labour shadow cabinet members Rachel Reeves, Bridget Phillipson and Jim McMahon, and Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey.
—Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2021
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