Below is the list of Kemi Badenoch’s Shadow Cabinet. None have experience of Opposition, with a small number having been elected in 2010, and most more recently. After 14 years in Government that is to a degree unavoidable except there are Tory MPs with more experience who have declined to serve and will be found on the backbenches (or as likely pursuing their business interests).
Very few are well known or even known and those that are have invariably featured in a scandal or gaffe of some sort, sometimes more than once.
Parliamentary Democracy in so far as it works does so because an Opposition holds Government to account rather than indulging in niche culture wars. Hopefully the independent left MPs, Plaid and on occasion the LibDems can manage a better job.
Finally there appears to be only one MP with a beard Richard Fuller.
Labour says that three quarters of the members of Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet abstained in the Commons vote to approve the report condemning Boris Johnson for lying to MPs about Partygate, that 42% of them (11 out of 26) backed Liz Truss for leader and that nearly three quarters of them served in Truss’s government. Guardian 5th November 2024
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs: Dame Priti Patel MP 2010
Shadow Home Secretary: Chris Philp MP 2015
Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Alex Burghart MP 2017
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence: James Cartlidge MP 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice: Robert Jenrick MP 2014
Shadow Secretary of State for Education: Laura Trott MP 2019
Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary: Ed Argar MP 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Kevin Hollinrake MP 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Victoria Atkins MP 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade: Andrew Griffith MP 2019
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero and Shadow Minister for Equalities: Claire Coutinho MP 2019
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Helen Whately MP 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport: Gareth Bacon MP 2019
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport: Stuart Andrew MP 2010
Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology: Alan Mak MP 2015
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and Shadow Minister of State for Energy and Net Zero: Andrew Bowie MP 2017
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Shadow Minister for Women: Mims Davies MP 2015
Opposition Chief Whip (Commons): Dame Rebecca Harris MP 2010
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons: Jesse Norman MP 2010
Shadow Leader of the House o2015f Lords: Lord True
Co-Chairmen of the Party: Nigel Huddleston MP & Lord Johnson
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Richard Fuller MP 2019
Also attending
Parliamentary Private Secretary: Julia Lopez MP 2017
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