shadow cabinet
noun
: a group of leaders of a parliamentary opposition who constitute the probable membership of the cabinet when their party is returned to power
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He was elected to Parliament in 2015 at the age of 52 and entered the shadow cabinet a little over a year later.
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Luke McGee,
CNN,
5 July 2024
In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim.
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NBC News,
5 July 2024
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet were among those at the Ditchley Park retreat in Oxfordshire.
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Eddie Spence,
Bloomberg.com,
12 Feb. 2023
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Luke McGee,
CNN,
5 July 2024
In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim.
—
NBC News,
5 July 2024
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet were among those at the Ditchley Park retreat in Oxfordshire.
—
Eddie Spence,
Bloomberg.com,
12 Feb. 2023
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“Shadow cabinet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shadow%20cabinet. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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