Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
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Appointer | Leader of the Opposition |
Website | The Shadow Cabinet |
The Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the most junior member of the Shadow Cabinet, and is the deputy to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury acts as the primary opposition to the equivalent Governmental position, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who is deputy to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Currently the position of Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury is held by Darren Jones of the Labour Party.
Name | Portrait | Entered office | Left office | Political party | Leader of | |
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Robert Sheldon 1939-2020 | 1 July 1981 | 1 July 1983 | Labour | Michael Foot | ||
Neil Kinnock | ||||||
Unknown | 1 July 1986 | 30 October 1986 | Unknown | |||
Bryan Gould born 1939 | 30 October 1986 | 13 July 1987 | Labour | |||
Gordon Brown born 1951 | 13 July 1987 | 9 January 1989 | ||||
Margaret Beckett born 1943 | 9 January 1989 | 18 July 1992 | ||||
Harriet Harman born 1950 | 18 July 1992 | 21 July 1994 | John Smith | |||
Margaret Beckett | ||||||
Andrew Smith born 1951 | 21 July 1994 | 25 July 1996 | ||||
Tony Blair | ||||||
Alistair Darling born 1953 | 25 July 1996 | 2 May 1997 | ||||
David Heathcoat-Amory born 1949 | 19 June 1997 | 26 September 2000 | Conservative | William Hague | ||
Sir Oliver Letwin born 1956 | 26 September 2000 | 18 September 2001 | ||||
John Bercow born 1963 | 18 September 2001 | 11 November 2003 | Iain Duncan Smith | |||
Howard Flight born 1948 | 11 November 2003 | 14 June 2004 | Michael Howard | |||
George Osborne born 1971 | 14 June 2004 | 10 May 2005 | ||||
Philip Hammond born 1955 | 10 May 2005 | 6 December 2005 | ||||
Theresa Villiers born 1968 | 6 December 2005 | 2 July 2007 | David Cameron | |||
Philip Hammond born 1955 | 2 July 2007 | 11 May 2010 | ||||
Liam Byrne born 1970 | 11 May 2010 | 8 October 2010 | Labour | Harriet Harman | ||
Dame Angela Eagle born 1961 | 8 October 2010 | 7 October 2011 | Ed Miliband | |||
Rachel Reeves born 1979 | 7 October 2011 | 7 October 2013 | ||||
Chris Leslie born 1972 | 7 October 2013 | 11 May 2015 | ||||
Shabana Mahmood born 1980 | 11 May 2015 | 13 September 2015 | Harriet Harman | |||
Seema Malhotra born 1972 | 13 September 2015 | 26 June 2016 | Jeremy Corbyn | |||
Rebecca Long-Bailey born 1979 | 27 June 2016 | 9 February 2017 | ||||
Peter Dowd born 1957 | 9 February 2017 | 6 April 2020 | ||||
Bridget Phillipson born 1983 | 6 April 2020 | 29 November 2021 | Sir Keir Starmer | |||
Pat McFadden born 1965 | 29 November 2021 | 4 September 2023 | ||||
Darren Jones born 1986 | 4 September 2023 | Incumbent |
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