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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
- ^ 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.
- 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
- Parkhouse, Geoffrey (1 November 1983). "Protest by Nationalists as Dewar takes over". The Glasgow Herald. p. 7.
- 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.
- Lynton, Martin (22 October 1993). "Women's lists 'not illegal': The New Shadow Cabinet". The Guardian.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - 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) - 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) - "Letter: Nurse Search". The Independent. 15 September 1996.
- Abrams, Fran (7 May 1997). "Jowell to be first guardian of public health". The Independent.
- House of Commons Debates, 27 February 1998 c. 607–80.
- House of Commons Debates 8 March 1999 c. 34–120.