After the fall of the Conservative government to Labour in 1997, she served as Shadow Health Secretary between 1998 and 1999 and later as Shadow Home Secretary between 1999 and 2001 under William Hague.

Jenkins returned to the shadow cabinet in November 1973 as Shadow Home Secretary.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

Cooper is currently Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.

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.

In opposition, Kaufman was the Shadow Environment Secretary, ( 1980 – 83 ), Shadow Home Secretary ( 1983 – 87 ) and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( 1987 – 92 ).

Having spent more time with his family, Fowler then returned twice to the Conservative front bench, first as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1994, during which time he oversaw the Boundary Changes in the early 1990s, then as Shadow Environment, Transport & the Regions Secretary in 1997 to 1998 and Shadow Home Secretary in 1998 to 1999.

* " Disavowed " from You Can't Go Home Again ( Private Press era ), DJ Shadow ( additional drums and co-production ) ( 2002 )

* Season 5: " No Place Like Home " ( first appearance ); " Family "; " Shadow "; " Checkpoint "; " Blood Ties "; " I Was Made to Love You "; " Forever "; " Intervention "; " Tough Love "; " Spiral ; " The Weight of the World "; " The Gift " ( killed )

When Tony Blair became leader after Smith's death, he chose Straw to succeed him as Shadow Home Secretary.

He was previously a regional MSP for Lothian since 1999, and had been Shadow Justice and Home Affairs Minister.

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.

The repeals were condemned by the Opposition Labour Shadow Home Secretary Alan Johnson.

Between 2003 and 2008 he was the Shadow Home Secretary in the shadow cabinet, under both Michael Howard and David Cameron.

On 12 June 2008, in a surprise and controversial move, Davis announced his intention to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary.

In July 2007, he was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Home Affairs.

* Ed Balls – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, formerly Shadow Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, economic adviser to Gordon Brown and MP for Normanton in West Yorkshire since May 2005

He served as Shadow Home Secretary and spokesman for home, constitutional and legal affairs for a year under William Hague before returning to the back benches in June 1998.

In 1983, Dewar was promoted to the shadow frontbench as the Shadow Scottish Secretary, and was strong supporter of Scottish devolution.

He rose quickly through the ranks, becoming Shadow Scottish Secretary in November 1983.

In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Prominent politicians of the Sikh Diaspora include the first Asian American to be elected as a Member of United States Congress Dalip Singh Saund, the current UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Parmjit Dhanda MP and the first couple to ever sit together in any parliament in the history of Commonwealth countries Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal, who sought apology by the Canadian Government for the historical Komagata Maru incident, and the Canadian Shadow Social Development Minister Ruby Dhalla MP.

In response, he was sacked from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary ( 1965 – 68 ) in the Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath.

In 1965, he stood in the first-ever party leadership election but came a distant third to Edward Heath, who appointed him Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.

In his first speech to the Conservative Party conference as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence on 14 October 1965, Powell outlined a fresh defence policy, jettisoning what he saw as outdated global military commitments left over from Britain's imperial past and stressing that Britain was a European power and therefore an alliance with Western European states from possible attack from the East was central to Britain's safety.

Labour was returned with a large majority, and Powell was retained by Heath as Shadow Defence Secretary as he believed Powell " was too dangerous to leave out ".

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.

Following these challenges, he was moved to the position of Shadow Foreign Secretary.

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.

However, Gaitskell was prepared to make Bevan Shadow Colonial Secretary, and then Shadow Foreign Secretary in 1956.

After Labour unexpectedly lost power in 1970 Jenkins was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by Harold Wilson.

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.

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.

In 2010, Abbott became Shadow Public Health Minister after unsuccessfully standing for election as leader of the Labour Party.

The Shadow Cabinet voted to support a referendum on 29 March 1972, and as a result Roy Jenkins resigned as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

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.

The Liberal Democrats, as the only other party with a large number of seats, used to call their leadership while in opposition the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team, but during the last Labour government, they started to use the term ' Shadow Cabinet '.

In the 1971 general election the party won an additional four seats and it formed a Shadow Cabinet with the Labour Party ( PvdA ) and the Christian left Political Party of Radicals ( PPR ).

* Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet ( United Kingdom ) ( Labour ) ( Ed Miliband )

* Shadow Cabinet ( Scottish Parliament ) ( Scottish Labour Party ) ( Johann Lamont )

He first quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader Harold Wilson's attitude to the EEC ; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later ; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader.

The Labour Shadow Foreign Minister, Jack Cunningham, greeted Major's appointment of Owen in the British House of Commons by saying that the Prime Minister's choice " was regarded as somewhat eccentric by and myself-he is known for many qualities, but not as a mediator.

After the 1992 general election she was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and served under John Smith as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.