* Opposition ( NZ Labour Party ) Spokesman, Foreign Affairs 1993 – 1999

On 8 September 2004, Michael Howard ( by now Leader of the Opposition ) added Redwood to the Shadow Cabinet as Spokesman on Deregulation ( a post without a direct counterpart in the current government ).

He was also Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration ( 1997 – 1999 ), and Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Energy ( 1988 – 92 ) and Welsh Affairs ( 1992 – 1997 ).

Having entered Parliament, May became a member of William Hague's front-bench Opposition team, as Shadow Spokesman for Schools, Disabled People and Women ( 1998 – June 1999 ).

As the Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Deputy Opposition Leader of the Popular Front Party ( PFP ) Parliamentary Group during the Third Republic, he was invited to accompany President Limann to the OAU Summit Conference in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

* 1995 – 1997: Opposition Spokesman for Social Security

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.

As Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Scottish Affairs, Taylor said in November 1974 that a general directive to the National Coal Board should follow the guidelines of the Social Contract in any wage settlement.

* 1979 – 1981: Opposition Spokesman for Education & Science

* 1981 – 1983: Opposition Spokesman for the Environment

* 1988 – 1992: Opposition Spokesman for the Environment

He was made an Opposition Whip by William Hague in 2000, and later in the year became an Opposition Spokesman on Education and Employment.

After the 2001 General Election he was the Opposition Spokesman on Education and Skills under both Hague and Iain Duncan Smith.

He became the PPS to the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Howard in 2003, and an Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Shadow Europe Minister in 2004.

He excelled in the Labour Opposition, becoming Opposition Spokesman on Trade and Industry, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Development and Co-operation.

* 1992 – 1994: Opposition Spokesman for Health

* 1994 – 1997: Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury

He returned to the backbenches after the 2001 general election but became Opposition Spokesman for Home Affairs after the 2005 general election and later Shadow Attorney General.

After entering Parliament in 1987, he served as Opposition defence Spokesman and as an opposition Whip.

Hazel Osborne Byford, Baroness Byford DBE DL ( born 14 January 1941 ) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, where she served as Opposition Parliamentary Spokesman for Food, Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007.

He also spent time as Opposition Scottish Whip, 1983 – 84, as Labour's Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on: Agriculture ( 1984 – 87 ), Scottish Affairs ( 1987 – 88 ), Agricultural and Rural Affairs ( 1988 -), and on Food ( 1989 -).

Opposition to the union seemed to subside somewhat for a time upon the publication of Tsar Nicholas II's congratulations to the king on his engagement and of his acceptance to act as the principal witness at the wedding.

The 10th Party Congress also introduced a ban on factionalism within the Communist Party ; however, what Lenin considered to be ' platforms ', such as the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition, were allowed.

Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.

Opposition from local seamen and merchants saw the route diverted to Kingswear on the opposite side of the river, but this occurred after the station had been built at Dartmouth.

Opposition to FGM focuses on human rights violations, lack of informed consent, and health risks, which include fatal hemorrhaging, epidermoid cysts, recurrent urinary and vaginal infections, chronic pain, and obstetrical complications.

The Governor General appoints the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.

The United Opposition, which had campaigned on the slogan of an end to the war in Anatolia, instead intensified it.

The notes Erwin made for his planned meeting with Holt ( which he evidently provided to Reid ) indicate that he and others were worried that Holt was too susceptible to traps set for him by the ALP over issues like the VIP jets scandal, and that he had repeatedly let himself become the target of Opposition " harassment " instead of letting his ministers take the heat on controversial issues.

Opposition MP Akram Chehayeb said " That is where the difference between us and them lies: They asked these people to come and they brought them here, whereas the opposition's supporters come here on their own.

The discontent with Trotsky's policies of strict discipline, conscription and reliance on carefully supervised non-Communist military experts eventually led to the Military Opposition ( Russian: Военная оппозиция

The governing coalition split in 1997, with the MMM going back to the Opposition and Navin Ramgoolam staying on as Prime Minister.

He was replying to queries from Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang on the next course of action to be taken by Malaysia and Asean with the Burmese military junta.

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

In a stunning landslide defeat, where ABC news had been predicting a 16 point Sandinista victory, the FSLN lost to the National Opposition Union by 14 points in elections on February 25, 1990.

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

The Governor General appoints the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.

Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of Representatives, Kerr appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister, conditional on the passage of the Whitlam government's Supply bills through the Senate and the calling of an election for both houses of parliament.

Seated in the front, directly across from the ministers on the Treasury Bench, the leaders of the opposition form a " Shadow Government ", complete with a salaried " Shadow Prime Minister ", the Leader of the Opposition, ready to assume office if the government falls or loses the next election.

For my part, I think it is much more hard on His Majesty's Opposition to compel them to take this course.

The Prime Minister, ministers in the cabinet, and the Leader of the Opposition must be sworn of the Privy Council on appointment.

As Privy Counsellors are bound by their oath to keep matters discussed at Council meetings secret, the appointment of the leaders of Opposition parties as Privy Counsellors allows the Government to share confidential information with them " on Privy Council terms ".

For example, Tony Blair met Leader of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy on privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

In mid-1968 Askin famously became embroiled in a media controversy over the reporting of several words spoken to the United States Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney on 32 July 1968 ( also the day Opposition Leader Renshaw resigned, to be replaced by Pat Hills ), in which he spoke of the October 1966 state visit by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.