Since may 2010, the labour party has been her majesty's loyal opposition, and its leadership therefore forms the current shadow cabinet. not all opposition frontbenchers are members of the shadow cabinet, which is composed of the most senior opposition members (usually around twenty).. The barnsley east mp was a close ally of previous labour leader ed miliband, and was a shadow cabinet office minister as well as shadow transport secretary and deputy chairman.. Jeremy corbyn has flexed his muscle over labour by promoting allies and loyalists in a major shadow cabinet reshuffle. the labour leader promoted diane abbott to shadow home secretary and kept.
Chaos behind jeremy corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle revealed labour leader appoints john mcdonnell, the man who wanted to assassinate margaret thatcher, as his shadow chancellor.. Minutes before the end of labour's national executive meeting on who should elect labour's shadow cabinet, jeremy corbyn handed round shortbread biscuits. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, had earlier talked about "putting the band back together," with a series of proposals he. Rachel reeves, the former shadow chief secretary, replaces byrne as shadow work and pensions secretary, one of the toughest jobs in the shadow cabinet as george osborne tries to corner labour as.
