List of British shadow cabinets

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

Shadow Cabinets

Party key		Conservative
		Labour Party
		Liberal Party
		Social Democratic Party
		Liberal Democrat
		Scottish National Party
		Democratic Unionist Party

1964–present

Date	Leader of the Opposition			Other opposition
1964	Alec Douglas-Home	Douglas-Home	Wilson I	Grimond Frontbench Team
1965	Edward Heath	Heath I	Wilson II	Grimond Frontbench Team
1970	Harold Wilson	Wilson II	Heath	Thorpe Frontbench Team
1974	Edward Heath	Heath II	Wilson III
1974	Edward Heath	Heath II	Wilson IV
1975	Margaret Thatcher	Thatcher	Callaghan
1979	James Callaghan	Callaghan	Thatcher I	Steele Frontbench Team Jenkins Frontbench team
1980	Michael Foot	Foot	Thatcher I
1983	Neil Kinnock	Kinnock	Thatcher II
1987			Thatcher III
1990			Major I
1992	John Smith	Smith	Major II
May 1994	Margaret Beckett	Beckett
Jul 1994	Tony Blair	Blair
May 1997	John Major	Major	Blair I	Ashdown Frontbench Team
Jun 1997	William Hague	Hague		Ashdown Frontbench Team
1999	William Hague	Hague		Kennedy Frontbench Team
2001	Iain Duncan Smith	Duncan Smith	Blair II
2003	Michael Howard	Howard	Blair II
2005	David Cameron	Cameron	Blair III
2006			Blair III	Campbell Frontbench Team
Oct 2007			Brown	First Cable Frontbench Team
Dec 2007			Brown	Clegg Frontbench Team
May 2010	Harriet Harman	Harman I	Cameron I (Cons.–Lib.Dem.)	None
Sep 2010	Ed Miliband	Miliband	Cameron I (Cons.–Lib.Dem.)	None
May 2015	Harriet Harman	Harman II	Cameron II	Robertson Frontbench Team Farron Frontbench Team
Sep 2015	Jeremy Corbyn	Corbyn	Cameron II
2016			May I
2017			May II	Blackford Frontbench Team Farron Frontbench Team Second Cable Frontbench Team Swinson Frontbench Team
Jul 2019			Johnson I
Dec 2019			Johnson II	Blackford Frontbench Team Flynn Frontbench Team Davey Frontbench Team Donaldson Frontbench Team
2020	Keir Starmer	Starmer	Johnson II
Sep 2022			Truss
Oct 2022			Sunak
Jul 2024	Rishi Sunak	Sunak	Starmer	Davey Frontbench Team Flynn Frontbench Team Robinson Frontbench Team
Nov 2024	Kemi Badenoch	Badenoch	Starmer


Official Opposition	Churchill (1945–1951) Attlee (1951–1955) Gaitskell (1955–1963) Brown (1963) Wilson I (1963–1964) Douglas-Home (1964–1965) Heath I (1965–1970) Wilson II (1970–1974) Heath II (1974–1975) Thatcher (1975–1979) Callaghan (1979–1980) Foot (1980–1983) Kinnock (1983–1992) Smith (1992–1994) Beckett (1994) Blair (1994–1997) Major (1997) Hague (1997–2001) Duncan Smith (2001–2003) Howard (2003–2005) Cameron (2005–2010) Harman I (2010) Miliband (2010–2015) Harman II (2015) Corbyn (2015–2020) Starmer (2020–2024) Sunak (2024) Badenoch (2024–present)
Liberal Democrats	Ashdown (1997–1999) Kennedy (1999–2006) Campbell (2006–2007) Cable I (2007) Clegg (2007–2010) Farron (2015–2017) Cable II (2017–2019) Swinson (2019) Davey (2020–present)
Scottish National Party	Robertson (2015–2017) Blackford (2017–2022) Flynn (2022–present)
1964 to Present

Shadow Cabinets

1964–present

See also