List of British shadow cabinets

This is a list of the shadow cabinets of the United Kingdom, including the unofficial the frontbench team of spokespersons of other parties from 1964 to the present date.

Shadow Cabinets

Party key	style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
	style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour Party
	style="background: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal Party
	style="background: Template:Social Democratic Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Social Democratic Party
	style="background: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal Democrat
	style="background: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	Scottish National Party
	style="background: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" |	Democratic Unionist Party
	style="background: Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" |	Green Party of England and Wales
	style="background: Template:Change UK/meta/color" |	Change UK
	style="background: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" |	Plaid Cymru

1964–present

Date	Leader of the Opposition	Official Shadow Cabinet		Government		Other opposition
1964	Alec Douglas-Home	rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px;" |	Douglas-Home	rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px;" |	Wilson I	Grimond Frontbench Team
1965	Edward Heath	Heath I	Wilson II
1970	Harold Wilson	style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Wilson II	style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Heath	Thorpe Frontbench Team
1974	Edward Heath	rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Heath II	rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Wilson III
		Wilson IV
1975	Margaret Thatcher	Thatcher	Callaghan
1979	James Callaghan	rowspan="8" style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Callaghan	rowspan="8" style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Thatcher I	Jenkins Frontbench team
1980	Michael Foot	Foot
1983	Neil Kinnock	Kinnock	Thatcher II
1987			Thatcher III
1990			Major I
1992	John Smith	Smith	Major II
May 1994	Margaret Beckett	Beckett
Jul 1994	Tony Blair	Blair
May 1997	John Major	rowspan="9" style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Major	rowspan="9" style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Blair I	Ashdown Frontbench Team
Jun 1997	William Hague	Hague
1999			Kennedy Frontbench Team
2001	Iain Duncan Smith	Duncan Smith		Blair II
2003	Michael Howard	Howard
2005	David Cameron	Cameron		Blair III
2006			Campbell Frontbench Team
Oct 2007			Brown	First Cable Frontbench Team
Dec 2007				Clegg Frontbench Team
May 2010	Harriet Harman	rowspan="9" style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Harman I		Cameron I (Cons.–Lib.Dem.)	None
Sep 2010	Ed Miliband	Miliband
May 2015	Harriet Harman	Harman II	rowspan="7" style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;" |	Cameron II	Robertson Frontbench Team   Farron Frontbench Team
Sep 2015	Jeremy Corbyn	Corbyn
2016			May I
2017			May II	Blackford Frontbench Team   Farron Frontbench Team   Second Cable Frontbench Team   Swinson Frontbench Team
Jul 2019			Johnson I
Dec 2019			Johnson II	Blackford Frontbench Team   Davey Frontbench Team
Apr 2020	Sir Keir Starmer	Starmer

See also

• List of British governments
• Official Opposition of the United Kingdom