By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk
Ed Miliband has made good on his talk of a “New Generation”, by promoting several of the 2010 intake of MPs to junior shadow ministerial roles.
Ed’s team will be joined by new MPs including Rachel Reeves, Johnny Reynolds, Tom Greatrex, Michael Dugher, Luciana Berger, Gloria De Piero and Gemma Doyle. Chuka Umunna and Anne McGuire have also been appointed as PPS to Ed Miliband. Speaking this afternoon, Ed Miliband said:
“I am delighted with Labour’s front bench team. I am particularly pleased that I could bring in a new generation of talent, whilst also using the experience of a broad range of Labour MPs. This is a team from all parts of the party, which will robustly hold the coalition government to account.”
Full list of the junior shadow posts below:
PPS to Ed Miliband: Chuka Umunna and Anne McGuire
DFID: Rushanara Ali and Mark Lazarowicz
Treasury: David Hanson, Chris Leslie and Kerry McCarthy
Foreign Office: John Spellar, Stephen Twigg, Wayne David and Emma Reynolds
Equalities: Fiona MacTaggart
Home Office: Vernon Coaker, Phil Woolas, Gerry Sutcliffe, Diane Johnson and Shabana Mahmood
Education: Kevin Brennan, Sharon Hodgson, Iain Wright and Toby Perkins
Justice: Chris Bryant (Constitutional and political reform), Helen Goodman, Andy Slaughter and Rob Flello
DWP: Stephen Timms, Margaret Curran, Rachel Reeves and Karen Buck
BIS: Gareth Thomas, Ian Lucas, Gordon Banks, Gordon Marsden, Nia Griffith and Chi Onwurah
Health: Diane Abbott (public health), Emily Thornberry, Derek Twigg and Liz Kendell
Communities and Local Government: Alison Seabeck, Barbara Keeley, Jack Dromey and Chris Williamson
Defence: Kevan Jones, Michael Dugher, Russell Brown and Gemma Doyle
Energy and Climate Change: Luciana Berger and Huw Irranca-Davies
Shadow deputy leader of the house: Helen Jones
Transport: John Woodcock, Jim Fitzpatrick and Andrew Gwynne
DEFRA: Willie Bain, Jamie Reed and Peter Soulsby
Northern Ireland: Eric Joyce
Scotland: Tom Greatrex
Wales: Owen Smith
Culture, Media and Sport: Ian Austin and Gloria De Piero
Cabinet Office: Jon Trickett (shadow minister of state – already announced) and Roberta Blackman-Woods
Shadow solicitor-general: Catherine McKinnell
Deputy chief whip – Alan Campbell
Pairing whip – Tony Cunningham
Whips – Lyn Brown, Mark Tami and David Wright
Assistant whips – Stephen Pound, David Hamilton, Dave Anderson, Angela C Smith, Phil Wilson, Lilian Greenwood, Jonathan Reynolds and Graham Jones
Lords Chief Whip: Rt Hon Lord Bassam of Brighton
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