Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty’s Royal Coven prepares to crown her High Preistess.

Also read: Green infrastructure investment centre-stage at conference as Labour poll lead grows Increase home ownership Some parliamentary parties, notably the Australian Labor Party, elect all the members of their shadow cabinets in a party room ballot, with the Leader of the Opposition then allocating portfolios to the shadow ministers. [9] In other parliamentary parties, the membership and composition of the Shadow Cabinet is generally determined solely by the Leader of the Opposition. [ citation needed]But if Labour wins the next general election, she is certain to be a key figure in the new government. The role held by Jacob Rees-Mogg, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, in government is divided in twoin the shadow cabinet. While Reynolds oversees business and industrial strategy, Ed Miliband is the shadow secretary of state for climate change and net zero. The Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet, or His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet, but usually simply the Shadow Cabinet, is the committee of senior members of the Official Opposition who scrutinise the work of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Each Shadow Cabinet member is typically given a position which corresponds to that of a government minister in Cabinet. Shadow Cabinet members, known as Shadow Ministers, are usually appointed by the Leader of the Opposition (currently Sir Keir Starmer). The role of a Shadow Minister is to develop alternative policies, hold the government to account for its actions and responses, and act as spokespeople for the opposition party in their own specific policy areas. [1] By convention, Shadow Ministers are either serving members of the House of Commons or the House of Lords, with most chosen from the former. Since May 2010, Labour has been the Official Opposition, and its leadership therefore forms the current Shadow Cabinet. Still written well, I just didn't like the storyline or any of the characters in this sequel bar Theo and Holly. I can only hope the next one improves and this was just a blip. First of all, Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour party - the bust up with Keir Starmer began all the bitterness and the disputes of this reshuffle today.

Opposition parliamentary parties which are sufficiently small that they are about the same size as the government cabinet will often appoint all of their elected members to their shadow cabinet or equivalent, with third parties more likely compared to official opposition parties to use this sort of arrangement. If the parliamentary party is only slightly larger than the government's cabinet, its leadership potentially faces the awkward position of embarrassing a small minority of legislators by singling them out for exclusion from the shadow cabinet. On the other hand, incoming governments in the Westminster system often change the number and/or composition of ministries upon assuming office. Therefore, one solution to such an aforementioned issue when it occurs is to create nominal shadow "ministries" that correspond to currently nonexistent cabinet posts the party actually intends to create once in government. An opposition party can also employ this process in reverse by "merging" its shadow ministries to correspond to actual cabinet posts the opposition party wants to merge or otherwise eliminate. [ citation needed] Use outside English-speaking countries [ edit ] Other frontbenchers responsible for Starmer’s “five missions”, such as Wes Streeting on health, Bridget Phillipson on education and Ed Miliband on net zero, remain in post.We are going to be wrapping up our live elections coverage soon so here's a reminder of the main stories: Jonathan Reynolds - Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy (moved to the role) Particularly after Labour had a very patchy set of results with some really tough contests, losing ground to the Tories in many areas that they like to think of as their own. The Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons, the opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords, and the Shadow Leader of the House of Lords are technically not members of the Shadow Cabinet. However they do often attend Shadow Cabinet meetings. These roles also receive an additional stipend, as does the opposition Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons. Shadow Cabinet – Ministerial Experience

One of the few shadow cabinet ministers to keep his job during the change of leadership from Jeremy Corbyn to Starmer, Ashworth was kept on in the health role as the coronavirus pandemic raged through the UK last spring. After the ending of the first book, I immediately requested the eARC of The Shadow Cabinet because I was reeling. If you know, you know. Thank you SO much to Netgalley and Penguin who took pity on my psyche and granted me access to this lovely sequel so that I could write an honest review. So what does it all tell us? It tells us Keir Starmer wants his close allies in those top jobs running into the general election. A lot of them are on the centre of the party rather than from the left who ruled the roost under Jeremy Corbyn. In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven--and their world--from tearing apart forever.But I think this does give a wobble to Labour's sentiment. He has critics on the left who have already used this as an opportunity to pile in and push him to try to change direction.