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She afterwards declined to serve in Iain Duncan Smith's Shadow Cabinet ( although she indicated on the television programme When Louis Met ..., prior to the leadership contest, that she wished to retire to the backbenches anyway ).
On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.
** Shadow minister, a member of a Shadow Cabinet of the opposition
Following Labour's defeat in the 1979 general election, James Callaghan appointed Neil Kinnock to the Shadow Cabinet as Education spokesman.
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.
In response, he was sacked from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary ( 1965 – 68 ) in the Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath.
The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.
At the next Shadow Cabinet meeting Heath said this " nonsense " must be stopped.
Heath sacked Powell from his Shadow Cabinet the day after the speech, and he never held another senior political post.
During February 1975, after winning the leadership election, Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because " he turned his back on his own people " by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour.
Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968, shortly after Powell made his inflammatory " Rivers of Blood " speech which criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom.
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.
By coincidence, it was Bevan's further resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in 1954 that put Wilson back on the front bench ( as a spokesman, initially, on finance ).
The issue was dramatised at the political level by the famous " Rivers of Blood speech " by the Conservative politician Enoch Powell, warning against the dangers of immigration, which led to Powell's dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet.
Callaghan was popular with Labour MPs and was elected to the Shadow Cabinet every year while the Labour Party was in opposition from 1951 to 1964.
McMahon served in the Shadow Cabinet under his successor Billy Snedden, but was dropped after the 1974 election.
Johnson at first denied the relationship, dismissing the allegations as " an inverted pyramid of piffle ", but was consequentially sacked from the Shadow Cabinet in November 2004 when they turned out to be perfectly true.
Circulation under Johnson reached record levels – as high as 70, 000 by the time he left the magazine in 2005 to join David Cameron ’ s Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Higher Education.
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.

Shadow and voted
* Ann Widdecombe, the Shadow Home Secretary, took preliminary soundings but found that despite being popular among the full party membership she had limited support in the Parliamentary Party, who voted in the initial rounds.
Their debut single " Shadow ", the first release on Beggars Banquet Records, was voted by John Peel's listeners as twelfth best track of the year in 1977's Festive Fifty.
Shadow the Hedgehog was voted the best game of 2006 in the Official Jetix Magazine Reader Awards.

Shadow and support
* Twelve Western fonts ( including Andalé Sans, Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Broadway, Garamond, Imprint MT Shadow, Kidprint, Palace Script, Sheffield ) and seven Asian language fonts ( including support for the Hong Kong Supplementary character set )
Even though the Bill received cross-party support ( it was co-sponsored by Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, and supported by all other MPs representing North Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire ) it ran out of time later that year.
Along with Shadow of the Colossus, Ico was released in The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection for the PlayStation 3 which featured HD graphics, Trophy and 3D support.
Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary, who was seen as a Brownite has now been recently described as a Blairite for her toughness on law and order but also has been gaining support from key Blairites such as John Rentoul, Dan Hodges and fellow shadow cabinet members.
Maxton was a popular backbench figure but did not obtain much support when he stood for election to the Shadow Cabinet.
As Shadow Environment Secretary, he joined in May 2005 with two former environment ministers, the Labour MP Michael Meacher and the Conservative John Gummer, to table a cross-party Early Day Motion No. 178 in support Climate Change Bill drafted by Friends of the Earth.
After the election of Ed Miliband, Lammy pledged his full support for Miliband, though he turned down a post in the Shadow Cabinet offered by Miliband.
The title highlights Mrs Thatcher's support for the striking shipyard workers in Gdańsk while shutting down UK yards ; Birmingham Is What I Think With ( 1991 ), Arts Council England -- about the poet Roy Fisher ; The Shadow and the Substance ( 1994 ), Channel 4.
Although Clark was not a strong supporter of New Labour, he did support Tony Blair's bid for the party leadership, and continued as Shadow Defence Secretary following Blair's appointment.
From 1994 to 1995 she was Shadow Health Minister, a senior position, but caused controversy on her first day in office by announcing her support for tobacco advertising, drawing criticism from both the Australian Medical Association and her own party, which supported the Keating Government's legislation to prohibit tobacco advertising in 1992.
Labour had previously opposed a referendum, but the Shadow Cabinet decided to support Marten's amendment.
Prominent rugby league personalities who have publicly backed the club include Phil Gould, Andrew Johns and Peter Sterling while support has also come from as high up as Federal Shadow Treasurer and North Sydney MP Joe Hockey.
During the Shadow War of 2260-2261, the Drakh, along with The Streibs, served The Shadows primarily as a support mechanism ; they built weapons, collected intelligence, and performed many secondary missions, but did not participate in the war directly.
Shortly after an impressive performance at the Formula Three support race for the 1974 Monaco Grand Prix, Pryce joined the Shadow team and scored his first points in Germany in only his fourth race.
From the 1960s into the early 1970s, the base hosted a wide variety of aircraft types, including A-1E Skyraiders, AC-119G Shadow and AC-119K Stinger gunships, AC-47 Spooky gunships, AC-130A Spectre gunships, B-26K Counter-Invaders ( including those deployed to the Congo ), UC-123Ks with underwing jet pods, OV-10A Forward Air Control Broncos, Cessna O-2A Skymaster FAC and O-2B PSYOPS aircraft, QU-22B recon drones, and other long-serving C-47s in various support roles.
Worldwide, as of July, 2007, Shadow systems have flown more than 445, 000 flight hours and 47, 000 sorties — with more than 88 percent of those hours in support of U. S. and allied combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When the Labour Party went into opposition in 1979, Shore was made Shadow Foreign Secretary, having recanted on his previous support for CND.
Foot then made him Shadow Chancellor where his support for interventionist measures met with Foot's approval ; party policy also became opposed to EEC membership, which suited Shore well.
Cut Chemist joined DJ Shadow on a world wide tour to support their new mix The Hard Sell beginning in early 2008.
Tav Falco's Panther Burns promo photo to support 1995 Shadow Dancer album and which also appeared in liner notes of album.
Along with Ico, Shadow of the Colossus was re-released in The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection ( ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Classics HD in the PAL region ) for the PlayStation 3 in September 2011 ; it features high-definition ( HD ) graphics, content previously missing from the North American version, PlayStation Network Trophies, and 3D support.

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