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| 26 July 1996{{#tag:ref|Blair conducted a minor reshuffle of his shadow cabinet on 26 July 1996. As Anderson was in post and Shadow Minister for Women by 21 August 1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/women-in-revealing-clothes-have-no-redress-says-lawyer-1310712.html |title=Women in revealing clothes have no redress, says lawyer |last=Boggan |first=Steve |last1=raif |first=Shenai |work=The Independent |date=21 August 1996}}</ref> (and Jowell as a Shadow Health minister by 15 September),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letternurse-search-1363419.html |title=Letter: Nurse Search |work=The Independent |date=15 September 1996}}</ref> the change likely occurred at that 26 July resuffle.|group=n|name="JowellAnderson"}} | 26 July 1996{{#tag:ref|Blair conducted a minor reshuffle of his shadow cabinet on 26 July 1996. As Anderson was in post and Shadow Minister for Women by 21 August 1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/women-in-revealing-clothes-have-no-redress-says-lawyer-1310712.html |title=Women in revealing clothes have no redress, says lawyer |last=Boggan |first=Steve |last1=raif |first=Shenai |work=The Independent |date=21 August 1996}}</ref> (and Jowell as a Shadow Health minister by 15 September),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letternurse-search-1363419.html |title=Letter: Nurse Search |work=The Independent |date=15 September 1996}}</ref> the change likely occurred at that 26 July resuffle.|group=n|name="JowellAnderson"}}

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The Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities (previously Shadow Minister for Women and Shadow Minister for Women and Equality) is a position in the United Kingdom's Official Opposition, often held together with a Shadow Cabinet post, but sometimes as a Shadow Cabinet post in its own right. The Shadow Minister is responsible for holding the Minister for Women and Equalities, responsible for the Government Equalities Office, to account and is responsible for Opposition policy on women's and equality issues.

Shadow Ministers

Shadow Minister Took office Left office Political party Leader of the Opposition
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Jo Richardson 31 October 1983 18 July 1992 Labour Neil Kinnock
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Mo Mowlam 18 July 1992 21 October 1993 Labour  
 
John Smith
 
 
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clare Short 21 October 1993 19 October 1995 Labour
Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tessa Jowell 19 October 1995 26 July 1996 Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Janet Anderson 26 July 1996 2 May 1997 Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Gillian Shephard 2 May 1997 Unknown Conservative John Major
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Unclear Conservative William Hague
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Theresa May 15 June 1999 14 September 2001 Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Caroline Spelman 14 September 2001 15 March 2004 Conservative Iain Duncan Smith
Michael Howard
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Eleanor Laing 15 March 2004 2 July 2007 Conservative
David Cameron
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Theresa May 2 July 2007 11 May 2010 Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Yvette Cooper 20 May 2010 present Labour Harriet Harman
Ed Miliband

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Blair conducted a minor reshuffle of his shadow cabinet on 26 July 1996. As Anderson was in post and Shadow Minister for Women by 21 August 1996 (and Jowell as a Shadow Health minister by 15 September), the change likely occurred at that 26 July resuffle.
  2. No sources currently note any individual as holding this role for the Conservatives when Labour entered Government at the 1997 election and created the position of Minister for Women, but no source proves there was not one. Before the Conservatives' defeat, Gillian Shephard, John Major's Education Secretary, spoke on women's issues. She largely delegated the responsibility to a junior minister, Cheryl Gillan. The only parliamentary debate that obviously fell under the portfolio of the Minister for Women during the term of Harriet Harman (May 1997 to July 1998) occurred on 27 February 1998. It was a set-piece debate, meaning the order of speakers was opening minister, opening shadow minister, backbenchers, closing shadow minister, closing minister. Harman opened, followed by Shepard. The closing speeches were given by Gillan for the Conservatives and Joan Ruddock, Harman's deputy, for the Government. A similar debate was held on 8 March 1999. The Minister for Women was a peer, Baroness Jay of Paddington, so her deputy, Tessa Jowell, opened the debate for the Government; Theresa May opened for the Conservatives. Virginia Bottomley closed for the Opposition, and Margaret Hodge did so for Labour.

References

  1. Parkhouse, Geoffrey (1 November 1983). "Protest by Nationalists as Dewar takes over". The Glasgow Herald. p. 7.
  2. Timmins, Nicholas (25 July 1992). "Smith revamps Shadow Cabinet: Nicholas Timmins analyses the Labour line-up and looks at the backgrounds of the newcomers". The Independent. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  3. Lynton, Martin (22 October 1993). "Women's lists 'not illegal': The New Shadow Cabinet". The Guardian. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. Davies, Patricia Wynn (20 October 1995). "Blair turns tables in front bench 'clearout'". The Independent. Retrieved 26 July 2011. {{cite web}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  5. Boggan, Shenai (21 August 1996). "Women in revealing clothes have no redress, says lawyer". The Independent. {{cite web}}: More than one of |last1= and |last= specified (help)
  6. "Letter: Nurse Search". The Independent. 15 September 1996.
  7. Abrams, Fran (7 May 1997). "Jowell to be first guardian of public health". The Independent.
  8. House of Commons Debates, 27 February 1998 c. 607–80.
  9. House of Commons Debates 8 March 1999 c. 34–120.


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