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Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

British politician role

Field	Value
post	Shadow Leader
of the House of Commons
insignia	House of Commons of the United Kingdom logo 2018.svg
insigniasize	240
image	Official portrait of Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP.jpg
incumbent	Jesse Norman
incumbentsince	5 November 2024
appointer	Leader of the Opposition
website	The Shadow Cabinet

of the House of Commons The Shadow Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet responsible for working with the Leader of the House in arranging Commons business and holding the Government to account in its overall management of the House. The Shadow Leader also responds to the Business Statement of Leader of House each Thursday, though the Leader of the Opposition exercised this role until the late 1980s. The office is roughly equivalent to the Shadow Leader of the House of Lords.

Shadow Leaders

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Political party	Leader of the Opposition	Labour Party (UK)}}"		Labour Party (UK)}}"		Labour Party (UK)}}"		Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Conservative Party (UK)}}"
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Herbert Morrison	[[File:Herbert Morrison 1947 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	1951	c. 1955	Labour	Clement Attlee
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Unknown	Labour	Hugh Gaitskell
Labour Party (UK)}}"		George Brown
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Harold Wilson
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Selwyn Lloyd	[[File:Selwyn Lloyd cropped.jpg	75px]]	16 October 1964	4 August 1965	Conservative	Alec Douglas-Home
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Unknown/Vacant	4 August 1965	19 June 1970	Conservative	Edward Heath
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Fred Peart	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	19 June 1970	16 December 1971	Labour	Harold Wilson
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Michael Foot	[[File:Michael Foot (1981).jpg	75px]]	url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z9A9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=E0gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5921,3423474&dq=shadow-leader&hl=en	title=Wilson Gives Foot Key Market Role	date=17 December 1971	access-date=18 January 2011	work=The Glasgow Herald	page=22	last=Warden	first=John}}	6 December 1972	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Edward Short	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	6 December 1972	4 March 1974	Labour
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		James Prior	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	4 March 1974	29 October 1974	Conservative	Edward Heath
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		John Peyton	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	29 October 1974	19 November 1976	Conservative
Margaret Thatcher
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Francis Pym	[[File:Francis Leslie Pym.jpg	75px]]	19 November 1976	Approx. 20 November 1978	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Norman St John-Stevas		Approx. 20 November 1978	5 May 1979	Conservative
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Michael Foot	[[File:Michael Foot (1981).jpg	75px]]	4 May 1979	8 December 1980	Labour	James Callaghan
Labour Party (UK)}}"		John Silkin	[[File:John Silkin.png	75px]]	8 December 1980	30 October 1983	Labour	Michael Foot
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Peter Shore	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	30 October 1983	13 July 1987	Labour	Neil Kinnock
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Frank Dobson	[[File:Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health (cropped).jpg	75px]]	13 July 1987	2 November 1989	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		John Cunningham	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	2 November 1989	24 July 1992	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Margaret Beckett	[[File:Official portrait of Margaret Beckett as Environment Secretary (cropped).jpg	75px]]	24 July 1992	13 May 1994	Labour	John Smith
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Nick Brown
(Acting)	[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Nicholas Brown MP crop 2.jpg	75px]]	13 May 1994	21 July 1994	Labour	Margaret Beckett
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Margaret Beckett	[[File:Official portrait of Margaret Beckett as Environment Secretary (cropped).jpg	75px]]	21 July 1994	20 October 1994	Labour	Tony Blair
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Ann Taylor	[[File:Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Taylor_of_Bolton_crop_2,_2019.jpg	75px]]	20 October 1994	2 May 1997	Labour
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Alastair Goodlad	[[File:Official portrait of Lord Goodlad crop 2.jpg	75px]]	May 1997	30 June 1997	Conservative	John Major
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Gillian Shephard	[[File:Gillian Shephard official portrait (cropped).jpg	75px]]	30 June 1997	2 June 1998	Conservative	William Hague
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Sir George Young	[[File:George Young Minister.jpg	100x100px]]	1 June 1998	22 September 2000	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Angela Browning	[[File:Baroness Browning (cropped).jpg	99x99px]]	26 September 2000	18 September 2001	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Eric Forth	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	18 September 2001	10 November 2003	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Oliver Heald	[[File:Recent Picture of Oliver Heald QC MP Nov 2012 (cropped).jpg	100x100px]]	10 November 2003	10 May 2005	Conservative	Michael Howard
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Chris Grayling	[[File:Chris Grayling.JPG	93x93px]]	10 May 2005	8 December 2005	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Theresa May	[[File:Theresa May (28235949166) (cropped).jpg	98x98px]]	8 December 2005	19 January 2009	Conservative	David Cameron
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Alan Duncan	[[File:Alan Duncan (cropped).jpg	107x107px]]	19 January 2009	7 September 2009	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Sir George Young	[[File:George Young Minister.jpg	100x100px]]	8 September 2009	11 May 2010	Conservative
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Rosie Winterton	[[File:Rosie Winterton2.jpg	107x107px]]	12 May 2010	8 October 2010	Labour	Harriet Harman
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Hilary Benn	[[File:HilaryBennMPPortrait.jpg	116x116px]]	8 October 2010	url=https://www.channel4.com/news/alan-johnson-leads-shadow-cabinet-appointments	title=Alan Johnson Leads Shadow Cabinet Appointments	date=8 October 2010	access-date=18 July 2011	publisher=Channel 4}}	Labour	Ed Miliband
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Angela Eagle	[[File:Angela Eagle, speaking in 2015 (cropped).JPG	99x99px]]	7 October 2011	13 September 2015	Labour
Harriet Harman
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Chris Bryant	[[File:Official portrait of Chris Bryant crop 2.jpg	75px]]	13 September 2015	26 June 2016	Labour	Jeremy Corbyn
Paul Flynn	[[File:No image.svg	75px]]	4 July 2016	6 October 2016	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Valerie Vaz	[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP crop 2.jpg	75px]]	6 October 2016	9 May 2021	Labour
Sir Keir Starmer
Thangam Debbonaire	[[File:Official portrait of Thangam Debbonaire MP crop 2.jpg	75px]]	9 May 2021	4 September 2023	Labour
Lucy Powell	[[File:Official portrait of Lucy Powell MP crop 2.jpg	75px]]	4 September 2023	5 July 2024	Labour
Chris Philp	[[File:Official_portrait_of_Chris_Philp_MP_crop_2, 2024.jpg	75px]]	8 July 2024	5 November 2024	Conservative	Rishi Sunak
Jesse Norman	[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP crop 2.jpg	75px]]	5 November 2024	Incumbent	Conservative	Kemi Badenoch

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[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1968/may/21/finance-bill-allocation-of-time#column_455 21 May 1968 c 455].
(5 August 1965). "Mr Heath's Team". The Glasgow Herald.
(5 August 1965). "Unity seen factor in Heath "cabinet" choices". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.
Warden, John. (17 December 1971). "Wilson Gives Foot Key Market Role". The Glasgow Herald.
Russell, William. (7 December 1972). "Wilson Gives Shore Key Prices Post". The Glasgow Herald.
(22 May 1974). "Higher Allowances for MPs". The Glasgow Herald.
(30 October 1974). "New Tory Post for Whitelaw". The Age.
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Geoffrey Parkhouse. (7 November 1978). "Pym favourite for top Thatcher post". The Glasgow Herald.
[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/nov/21/pay-policy-tuc-talks#S5CV0958P0_19781121_HOC_157 House of Commons Debates 21 November 1979 c 1092]. (The Prime Minister, James Callaghan, welcoming St John-Stevas to "his new post").
[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/dec/07/business-of-the-house-1#S5CV0959P0_19781207_HOC_441 House of Commons Debates 7 December 1979 c 1698]. (St John-Stevas referring to his appointment as Shadow Leader).
Pankhouse, Geoffrey. (15 June 1979). "Shore Steps Up as Owen Is Demoted". The Glasgow Herald.
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(10 May 2005). "Howard Reshuffles Top Tory Team". BBC News.
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(19 January 2009). "Clarke Returns to Shadow Cabinet". The Scotsman.
(7 September 2009). "Tory 'Rations' MP Demoted". BBC News.
(8 September 2009). "George Young replaces Alan Duncan as shadow leader of Commons". The Telegraph.
(8 October 2010). "Alan Johnson Leads Shadow Cabinet Appointments". Channel 4.

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