Christopher Michael Leslie is a British business executive and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he defected to form Change UK and later became an independent politician.
Erith and Thamesmead is a constituency created in 1997 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Abena Oppong-Asare of the Labour Party.
Lyn Carol Brown is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Ham from 2005 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she was a Shadow Minister for the Home Office from 2015 to 2016,Shadow Policing Minister from 2016 to 2017,Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2018 to 2020,and Shadow Minister for Prisons and Probation from 2020 to 2021. She served as the Shadow Minister for Africa until standing down from parliament.
Bexley and Bromley is a constituency represented in the London Assembly. It consists of the combined areas of the London Borough of Bexley and the London Borough of Bromley. The constituency is represented by Thomas Turrell,a Conservative,first elected in the 2024 election.
Rachel Jane Reeves is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West and Pudsey,formerly Leeds West,since 2010. She previously held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2010 and 2015 and from 2020 and 2024.
Bridget Maeve Phillipson is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton and Sunderland South since 2010.
Teresa Pearce is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead from 2010 to 2019,who was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning in September 2015. In the reshuffle of October 2016,Pearce was appointed as acting Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government,standing down after the 2017 general election to concentrate on her constituency.
Anneliese Jane Dodds is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and public policy analyst serving as Minister of State for Development and Minister of State for Women and Equalities since July 2024. She previously served as Chair of the Labour Party from 2021 to 2024. She was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from April 2020 to May 2021,the first woman to hold the position,and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities from 2021 to 2024. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East since 2017 and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2014 to 2017.
Abena Osei-Asare is a Chartered Accountant,Ghanaian politician and currently a Member of Parliament for Atiwa East in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Luke Pollard is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport since 2017. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces since July 2024.
Kim Marie Johnson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Riverside since 2019.
Taiwo Owatemi is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North West since 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she was Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities from September 2021 to September 2022.
The following list shows all Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs),Members of the European Parliament (MEPs),Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs),affiliated trades unions and socialist societies that nominated a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.
The following list shows all Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs),Members of the European Parliament (MEPs),Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs),affiliated trades unions and socialist societies that nominated a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election.
Keir Starmer assumed the position of Leader of the Opposition after being elected as leader of the Labour Party on 4 April 2020;the election was triggered by Jeremy Corbyn's resignation following the Labour Party's electoral defeat at the 2019 general election when Boris Johnson formed a majority Conservative government. Starmer appointed his Shadow Cabinet on 5 and 6 April. He reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet five times:in June 2020,May 2021,June 2021,November 2021 and 2023.
The frontbench of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom consists of the Shadow Cabinet and other shadow ministers of the political party currently serving as the Official Opposition. From 2015 to 2020,Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition was the Labour Party,and the Leader of the Opposition was Jeremy Corbyn.
The Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office is a junior ministerial role at the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. The post is currently held by Abena Oppong-Asare and Georgia Gould.
The shadow exchequer secretary to the treasury is a member of the Official Opposition frontbench in the United Kingdom. The officeholder shadows the exchequer secretary to the treasury. The current officeholder is Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi shadowing James Cartlidge on the Treasury bench.
In the aftermath of relatively poor results in the 2021 local elections,Keir Starmer carried out a May 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle.
The frontbench of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom consists of the Shadow cabinet and other shadow ministers of the political party currently serving as the Official Opposition. From 2020 to 2024,His Majesty's Loyal Opposition was the Labour Party,and the Leader of the Opposition was Keir Starmer.
