shadow cabinet
noun
: a group of leaders of a parliamentary opposition who constitute the probable membership of the cabinet when their party is returned to power
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Many of the shadow cabinet’s members, such as Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, became principal policy makers when Joe Biden assumed the presidency in 2021 and made his triumphant declaration: America is back.
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Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
As of last night, Politico said, 18 Labour MPs, including senior members of the Corbyn-era shadow cabinet John McDonnell and Diane Abbott, had signed an amendment to the King's Speech calling on the government to abolish the policy that would lift nearly half a million UK children out of poverty.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 23 July 2024
In Leicester South, a seat in an industrial city in the English Midlands, Labour shadow cabinet member Jonathan Ashworth lost his seat by 979 votes to Shockat Adam, an independent candidate who made his support for Gaza a key part of his electoral pledge to voters.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 July 2024
In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim.
—NBC News, 5 July 2024
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Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
As of last night, Politico said, 18 Labour MPs, including senior members of the Corbyn-era shadow cabinet John McDonnell and Diane Abbott, had signed an amendment to the King's Speech calling on the government to abolish the policy that would lift nearly half a million UK children out of poverty.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 23 July 2024
In Leicester South, a seat in an industrial city in the English Midlands, Labour shadow cabinet member Jonathan Ashworth lost his seat by 979 votes to Shockat Adam, an independent candidate who made his support for Gaza a key part of his electoral pledge to voters.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 July 2024
In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim.
—NBC News, 5 July 2024
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