He led the Official Opposition until 1993 and was spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Trade until 1999.

Perhaps as a direct result of this scandal, the Conservative party fell in the eyes of the public and was relegated to being the Official Opposition in the federal election of 1874.

When a party becomes the largest party not to be represented in a Westminster-style parliament, the party's parliamentary group forms the Official Opposition, with Official Opposition frontbench team members often forming the Official Opposition Shadow cabinet.

Parliamentary party members and leaders who are part of neither the Government or Official Opposition frontbenches are known as backbenchers, and are relegated to sitting behind or perpendicular to designated frontbenchers.

On the federal level, the social democratic New Democratic Party now forms the Official Opposition ( Canada ) after winning 102 / 308 seats ( up from 37 ) in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

The Official Opposition and other major political parties not in the Government, will mirror the governmental organisation with their own Shadow Cabinet made up of Shadow Ministers.

This made political libel cases unfortunately common, with one infamous case even filed by the Prime Minister himself versus Official Opposition for alleging that the Prime Minister, when in Opposition, had bribed MP Chuck Cadman.

The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held it throughout its existence.

The Alliance remained the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.

Turner stayed on as Liberal leader and headed the Official Opposition for the next six years, leading his party to a modest recovery in the 1988 campaign, resigning from politics in 1990.

The PQ was unable to maintain this momentum, and in the 2007 provincial election, the party fell to 36 seats and behind the conservative Action démocratique du Québec ( ADQ ) in number of seats and the popular vote: this is the first time since 1973 that the party did not form the government or Official Opposition.

The government proposed an interview phase again in 2008, but a general election and minority parliament intervened with delays such that the Prime Minister recommended Justice Cromwell after consulting the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

Since the party's defeat in the 2008 general election, Labour has formed the second-largest ( in terms of parliamentary seats ) political party represented in the Parliament of New Zealand, and functions as the core of the Official Parliamentary Opposition.

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The Official Opposition ( the non-government party with the largest number of elected members of Parliament — currently the Labour Party ) is headed by the Shadow Cabinet and is supported by numerous junior opposition frontbenchers.

* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper filed a suit against the Liberal Party of Canada, the Official Opposition, after the latter paid for trucks to drive through the streets playing a journalist's tape of Harper admitting he knew of " financial considerations " offered to dying MP Chuck Cadman before a critical Canadian House of Commons vote in 2005.

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After being sworn in as the MP for Calgary Centre North on July 16, Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper named Prentice to the Shadow Cabinet as the Official Opposition Critic for Indian and Northern Affairs.

Davies served in a number of posts when Labour formed the Official Opposition after the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, including Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in Michael Foot's Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in Neil Kinnock's.

He later served in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Defence Secretary, Shadow Constitutional Affairs Spokesman and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, until joining the new government following the 2010 General Election.

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He is currently the Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business and Regulatory Reform in the Official Opposition frontbench under Ed Miliband.

While on the Opposition benches in 1997-2005, Kenney served in a number of prominent roles in the Shadow Cabinet, including Deputy House Leader for the Official Opposition, critic for Canada-United States relations, critic for National Revenue, and critic for Finance.

Official papers bear a logo based on that of the Cabinet Office with the addition of the words " Briefing Rooms ".

Under international law, according to Protocol 1 Additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Gurkhas serving as regular uniformed soldiers are not mercenaries, According to Cabinet Office official histories ( Official History of the Falkland Islands, Sir Lawrence Freedman ), Sir John Nott, as Secretary of State for Defence, expressed the British Government's concern that the Gurkhas could not be sent with the task force to recapture the Falkland Islands because it might upset the non-aligned members of the fragile coalition of support that the British had built in the United Nations.

Official ceremonies, such as the swearing-in of Cabinet ministers, the presentation of honours and the holding of receptions take place in the drawing room, which is hung with paintings by Australian artists and contains examples of early Australian furniture.

Following the 2006 Federal Election, he became the Liberal Finance Critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet.

In addition to the Prime Minister's Official Residence being the principal office of the Prime Minister, the Chief Cabinet Secretary and the Deputy Cabinet Secretaries perform their daily duties, it is also the place where important Cabinet meetings take place, where foreign leaders are welcomed and entertained, and is also the location of a national crisis management center.

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In July 2004, he was appointed to the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet as critic for the Minister of National Revenue.

He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 until the 2011, holding two senior positions in Prime Minister Paul Martin's Cabinet from 2003 to 2006, and serving as transportation critic when his party became the Official Opposition.

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He was also highly critical of a decision taken in Belfast by McKee to assassinate members of the rival Official IRA, who had been on ceasefire since 1972.

Official duties involve the sovereign representing the Canadian state at home or abroad, or her relations as members of the Royal Family participating in government organized ceremonies either in Canada or elsewhere.

Previously the flag was generally only flown on public buildings on days marking the birthdays of members of the Royal Family, the wedding anniversary of the monarch, Commonwealth Day, Accession Day, Coronation Day, the Queen's Official Birthday, Remembrance Sunday and on the days of the State Opening and prorogation of Parliament.

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The Official IRA lost a large amount of weaponry in the incident and their members on the ground blamed the Provisionals for starting the firing and then leaving them alone to face the British.

This flared up into violence on several occasions, notably in October 1975, when the Provisionals sought out and shot Official IRA members in Belfast — 11 republicans on either side were killed in the feud ; a nine year-old girl was also shot dead by the Provisionals when they tried to shoot her father.

These eventually proved a considerable political embarrassment to the Workers ' Party, and in 1992 the leadership proposed amendments to the party constitution which would, inter alia, effectively allow it to purge members suspected of involvement in the Official IRA.

In 1995, some Northern based former Official IRA members in the Newry area launched a " re-founded " Official Republican Movement, intended to pursue the socialist republican politics which the Officials espoused in the 1970s.

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