New Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has appointed Salford and Eccles MP, Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow Education Secretary, a job previously held by new Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner.
Meanwhile, Ed Miliband takes over from Long Bailey as shadow Business, Energy and Industrial Secretary.
The full shadow cabinet line up is...
Angela Rayner - Deputy Leader and Chair of the Labour Party
Anneliese Dodds - shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lisa Nandy - shadow Foreign Secretary
Nick Thomas-Symonds - shadow Home Secretary
Rachel Reeves - shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
David Lammy - shadow Justice Secretary
John Healey - shadow Defence Secretary
Ed Miliband - shadow Business, Energy and Industrial Secretary
Emily Thornberry - shadow International Trade Secretary
Jonathan Reynolds - shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
Jonathan Ashworth - shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Rebecca Long Bailey - shadow Education Secretary
Jo Stevens - shadow Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Bridget Philipson - shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Luke Pollard - shadow Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary
Steve Reed - shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary
Thangam Debbonaire - shadow Housing Secretary
Jim McMahon - shadow Transport Secretary
Preet Kaur Gill - shadow International Development Secretary
Louise Haigh - shadow Northern Ireland Secretary (interim)
Ian Murray - shadow Scotland Secretary
Nia Griffith - shadow Wales Secretary
Marsha de Cordova - shadow Women and Equalities Secretary
Andy McDonald - shadow Employment Rights and Protections Secretary
Rosena Allin-Khan - shadow Minister for Mental Health
Cat Smith - shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Engagement
Lord Falconer - shadow Attorney General
Valerie Vaz - shadow Leader of the House
Nick Brown - Chief Whip
Baroness Smith - shadow Leader of the Lords
Lord McAvoy - Lords' Chief Whip
Commenting on the appointment of Rebecca Long Bailey, Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"At this time of national crisis it will be important for the official opposition to work with the Government and to hold Ministers to account to ensure that education professionals and children and young people are protected in these immensely difficult times.
"We look forward to working with the Shadow Education Secretary and politicians from across the political spectrum on fashioning the type of education service that will be fit for the twenty first century and after Covid-19. We can't go back to an 'exam factories' view of education, with schools and colleges reeling from cut after cut, teachers, leaders and support staff feeling undervalued and the life chances of over 4 million children blighted by their being trapped in poverty."
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