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Our Shadow Cabinet

Meet and connect with Labour's top team, the Shadow Cabinet.

Our Shadow Cabinet

The Shadow Cabinet is Labour’s top team in Parliament, joining Jeremy Corbyn to hold the Tories to account across lots of policy areas. Take a look at who’s on the team.

Jeremy Corbyn

Leader of the Labour Party

Tom Watson

Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

John McDonnell

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

Diane Abbott

Shadow Home Secretary

Emily Thornberry

Shadow Foreign Secretary

Rebecca Long-Bailey

Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Jonathan Ashworth

Shadow Secretary of State for Health

Angela Rayner

Shadow Secretary of State for Education

Keir Starmer

Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

Richard Burgon

Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Shadow Lord Chancellor

Sue Hayman

Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dawn Butler

Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities

Dan Carden

Acting Shadow Secretary of State for International Development

Cat Smith

Shadow Minister for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs

Baroness Smith of Basildon

Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

Valerie Vaz

Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

Jon Trickett

Shadow Lord President of the Council and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office

John Healey

Shadow Secretary of State for Housing

Margaret Greenwood

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Andrew Gwynne

Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Co-National Campaign Coordinator

Peter Dowd

Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Christina Rees

Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

Andy McDonald

Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

Ian Lavery

Co-National Campaign Coordinator and Party Chair

Nick Brown

Opposition Chief Whip

Nia Griffith

Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

Shami Chakrabarti

Shadow Attorney General

Barry Gardiner

Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade

Barbara Keeley

Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care

Lesley Laird

Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland

Tony Lloyd

Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Lord Thomas McAvoy

Shadow Chief Whip of the House of Lords

Laura Pidcock

Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights

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