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Shadow and Chancellor
John Smith, previously Shadow Chancellor, was his successor as party leader.
After Labour unexpectedly lost power in 1970 Jenkins was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by Harold Wilson.
The following year, Heath – who was Shadow Chancellor at the time, and had recently won favourable publicity for leading the fight against Labour's Finance Bill – unexpectedly won the party's leadership contest, gaining 150 votes to Reginald Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.
In the Labour Shadow Cabinet he served first as the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1955 to 1961, and then as the Shadow Foreign Secretary until being elected party leader in 1963.
One of his procedural moves caused a delay to the progress of the Government's Finance Bill in 1955, and his speeches as Shadow Chancellor from 1956 were widely praised for their clarity and wit.
Unusually, Wilson combined the job of Chairman of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee with that of Shadow Chancellor from 1959, holding the chairmanship of the PAC from 1959 to 1963.
On his appointment as Shadow Chancellor in 1965, he stepped down as editor on the last day of the year, to be replaced by Nigel Lawson.
However, when his second wife Mary was killed in a riding accident in 1978 in Sydney, he decided to return to active politics, first serving as a shadow minister without portfolio in the Shadow Cabinets of Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher, then serving again as Lord Chancellor from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher.
While Chamberlain toured the country, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, H. H. Asquith stalked him by preaching the virtues of Free Trade in the same venues in which Chamberlain had appeared a few evenings before.
In the third and final round he formed an alliance with Eurosceptic John Redwood, who would have become Shadow Chancellor and Clarke's deputy if Clarke had won the contest.
He first entered parliament in 1970 and was the Secretary of State for Trade from 1978 – 1979 and then the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer under Neil Kinnock from 1987-1992.
Smith was appointed Shadow Chancellor by Neil Kinnock in July 1987 after Party's general election defeat.
However, he suffered a heart attack whilst Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer on 9 October 1988 and was forced to spend three months away from Westminster to recover.
Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 General Election, Howard unsuccessfully made a bid for the post of Conservative Party leader and held the posts of Shadow Foreign Secretary ( 1997 – 1999 ) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 2001 – 2003 ).
Following the 2001 general election, Howard was recalled to frontline politics when the Conservative Party's new leader, Iain Duncan Smith, appointed him Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
This was in recognition of his performance at the dispatch box in his previous role as Shadow Chancellor.
Healey was appointed Shadow Chancellor in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned in a row over the European Economic Community ( Common Market ).
His appointment as Lord Chancellor after Blair's election victory in 1997 was widely expected after he had served for five years as Shadow Lord Chancellor.
Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained.
On 1 February 2000, William Hague promoted Portillo to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chancellor.

Shadow and George
* The Shadow of the Unattained: Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith
The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith.
Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.
During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.
For their next album, Too Much Too Soon, the quintet hired producer George " Shadow " Morton, whose productions for the Shangri-Las and other girl-groups in the mid-1960s had been among the band's favorites.
* George Chapman-The Shadow of Night
* On 8 December 2005, when referring to the economic record of the Conservatives in the 1980s, making the remark, " The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of the Tories ", a reference to allegations originally published in the Sunday Mirror of cocaine use by the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne ( though, in the Commons, Skinner referred to the News of the World ).
Julian Barnes's 2005 novel Arthur & George recounts the entire episode in great detail, though it does not always stick to the historical record ( see Roger Oldfield's book ' Outrage: The Edalji Five and the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes ', Vanguard Press ).
George Trefgarne's ' Metroboom: lessons from Britain ’ s recovery in the 1930s ' sought to revise the perception of the decade as universally destitute, a view often espoused by Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
*" Casting a Long Shadow ", by David M. Shribman: Boston Globe article describing 1970 congressional races of Al Gore Sr., and George H. W. Bush.
Parliamentary colleagues supporting him initially included Boris Johnson, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, then Shadow Defence Secretary and deputy leader of the party Michael Ancram, Oliver Letwin and former party leader William Hague.
Former leader William Hague was appointed to the Foreign Affairs brief, while both George Osborne and David Davis were retained, as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Home Secretary respectively.
Following the death of Lord George Bentinck in 1848, Herries was suggested by Lord Stanley as an alternative to Benjamin Disraeli as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
The main protagonists of the series are George Stobbart, an American patent lawyer, and Nicole " Nico " Collard, a French freelance journalist, although Nico does not appear as a playable character in the original game The Shadow of the Templars.
Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland George Robertson's contrary claim that devolution would " kill the SNP stone dead " was dismissed by Reid by saying " Ho, ho, ho ".
Destler, In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served — From JFK to George W. Bush Simon & Schuster ; 2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-5319-9.
* George C. Jenks, author of first The Shadow story under pen name Frank S. Lawton ( Feb. 1929 )
Major acts who have recorded there include Walter Becker, The Kinks, Arctic Monkeys, Aerosmith, Counting Crows, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Marc Anthony, The B-52's, Tony Bennett, Michael Brecker, Devo, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Dream Theater, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Throwing Muses, Serge Gainsbourg, The Strokes, Bryan Adams, Bernadette Peters, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett Trio, Neil Young, Harry Connick, Jr., Iggy Pop, Madonna, Journey, Muse, George Michael, Betty Carter, Sum 41, John Mayer, Moby, Vanessa Williams, Blondie, Porcupine Tree, Chic, Joan Jett, David Bowie, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Rumble Strips, Trey Anastasio, Helix, Kathem Al Saher, Gang Starr, Honor Society, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the band Power Station, which was named after the studio itself.
This is a theme to which then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown returned, comparing and contrasting his frosty relationship with the official Shadow Chancellor George Osborne with his apparently warm relationship with Vince Cable ( whom he has referred to as " the Shadow Chancellor from Twickenham ").

Shadow and Osborne
From October 2005 to October 2006 he served on the Tax Reform Commission, established by the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP.
Osborne held the seat at the 2005 election with an increased majority, and became the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer that year, and Chancellor in 2010.
These smears would have included sexual and personal fabrications against MP Nadine Dorries, Conservative leader David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and his wife Frances.

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