List of British shadow cabinets

This is a list of the shadow cabinets of the United Kingdom, including unofficial frontbench teams of spokespeople from other parties from 1964 to the present date.

Shadow Cabinets

Party key		Conservative
		Labour Party
		Liberal Party
		Social Democratic Party
		Liberal Democrat
		Scottish National Party
		Democratic Unionist Party

1964–present

Date	Leader of the Opposition	Official Shadow Cabinet		Government		Other opposition
1964	Alec Douglas-Home		Douglas-Home		Wilson I	Grimond Frontbench Team
1965	Edward Heath		Heath I		Wilson II
1970	Harold Wilson		Wilson II		Heath	Thorpe Frontbench Team
1974	Edward Heath		Heath II		Wilson III
					Wilson IV
1975	Margaret Thatcher		Thatcher		Callaghan
1979	James Callaghan		Callaghan		Thatcher I	Steele Frontbench Team   Jenkins Frontbench team
1980	Michael Foot		Foot
1983	Neil Kinnock		Kinnock		Thatcher II
1987					Thatcher III
1990					Major I
1992	John Smith		Smith		Major II
May 1994	Margaret Beckett		Beckett
Jul 1994	Tony Blair		Blair
May 1997	John Major		Major		Blair I	Ashdown Frontbench Team
Jun 1997	William Hague		Hague
1999						Kennedy Frontbench Team
2001	Iain Duncan Smith		Duncan Smith		Blair II
2003	Michael Howard		Howard
2005	David Cameron		Cameron		Blair III
2006						Campbell Frontbench Team
Oct 2007					Brown	First Cable Frontbench Team
Dec 2007						Clegg Frontbench Team
May 2010	Harriet Harman		Harman I		Cameron I (Cons.–Lib.Dem.)	None
Sep 2010	Ed Miliband		Miliband
May 2015	Harriet Harman		Harman II		Cameron II	Robertson Frontbench Team   Farron Frontbench Team
Sep 2015	Jeremy Corbyn		Corbyn
2016					May I
2017					May II	Blackford Frontbench Team   Farron Frontbench Team   Second Cable Frontbench Team   Swinson Frontbench Team
Jul 2019					Johnson I
Dec 2019					Johnson II	Blackford Frontbench Team   Flynn Frontbench Team   Davey Frontbench Team   Donaldson Frontbench Team
2020	Keir Starmer		Starmer
Sep 2022					Truss
Oct 2022					Sunak
Jul 2024	Rishi Sunak		Sunak		Starmer	Flynn Frontbench Team   Davey Frontbench Team   Robinson Frontbench Team
Nov 2024	Kemi Badenoch		Badenoch

See also

• List of British governments
• Official Opposition of the United Kingdom