List of British shadow cabinets

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

Shadow Cabinets

Party key		Conservative
		Labour Party
		Liberal Democrat
		Scottish National Party

1964–present

Date	Leader of the Opposition	Official Shadow Cabinet		Government		Other parties
1964	Alec Douglas-Home		Douglas-Home Shadow Cabinet		First Wilson ministry	None
1965	Edward Heath		First Heath Shadow Cabinet
1970	Harold Wilson		Second Wilson Shadow Cabinet		Heath ministry
1974	Edward Heath		Second Heath Shadow Cabinet		Second Wilson ministry
1975	Margaret Thatcher		Thatcher Shadow Cabinet		Callaghan ministry
1979	James Callaghan		Callaghan Shadow Cabinet		First Thatcher ministry
1980	Michael Foot		Foot Shadow Cabinet
1983	Neil Kinnock		Kinnock Shadow Cabinet		Second Thatcher ministry
1987					Third Thatcher ministry
1990					Major ministry
1992	John Smith		Smith Shadow Cabinet
May 1994	Margaret Beckett		Beckett Shadow Cabinet
Jul 1994	Tony Blair		Blair Shadow Cabinet
May 1997	John Major		Major Shadow Cabinet		Blair ministry	Ashdown Shadow Cabinet
Jun 1997	William Hague		Hague Shadow Cabinet
1999						Kennedy Shadow Cabinet
2001	Iain Duncan Smith		Duncan Smith Shadow Cabinet
2003	Michael Howard		Howard Shadow Cabinet
2005	David Cameron		Cameron Shadow Cabinet
2006						Campbell Shadow Cabinet
Oct 2007					Brown ministry	Cable Shadow Cabinet
Dec 2007						Clegg Shadow Cabinet
May 2010	Harriet Harman		First Harman Shadow Cabinet	First Cameron ministry
Sep 2010	Ed Miliband		Miliband Shadow Cabinet
May 2015	Harriet Harman		Second Harman Shadow Cabinet		Second Cameron ministry	Robertson Frontbench Team      Farron Shadow Cabinet
Sep 2015	Jeremy Corbyn		Corbyn Shadow Cabinet

See also

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