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Topic: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (UK)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Shadow Cabinet
		In the United Kingdom and Canada the major opposition party and specifically its shadow cabinet is often called Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
		The adjective "loyal" is used because, while the role of the opposition is to oppose Her Majesty's Government, it does not dispute Her Majesty's right to the throne and therefore the legitimacy of the government.
		Some parliamentary parties, notably the British Labour Party and the Australian Labor Party, elect all the members of their shadow cabinets in a partyroom ballot, with the Leader of the Opposition then allocating portfolios to the Shadow Ministers.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet (241 words)

	Cabinet of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Cabinet meets on a regular basis weekly on a Thursday morning notionally to the most important issues of government policy to make decisions which they are bound by "cabinet collective responsibility".
		The official opposition party (the party with the second number of elected members of Parliament) is by a similar group called the Shadow Cabinet.
		In a controversial reshuffle on 12 June 2003 it was announced that the government to abolish the office of Lord Chancellor and combine it with the posts Secretary of State for Scotland and Secretary of State for Wales in the new Department of Constitutional Affairs.
	www.freeglossary.com /UK_cabinet (738 words)

	Shadowing Bush
		As issues arise, the appropriate cabinet member is the point-man for the opposition, presenting to the press what would have happened if the shadow cabinet were handling the situation, and in the process critiquing the actual cabinet member.
		Also, there is the presumption that if the cabinet member is doing his or her job competently then the shadow cabinet has a chance of becoming the cabinet-elect after the next election, and will then have the power to fully effect the changes they had promised as shadows.
		The shadow cabinet, which would be administered by the Democratic Party itself, is in many ways the opposite of MoveOn.org's loose structure: it is a hierarchy with one person at the top and a single person deciding policy for each field of issues.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/20041104klemens.htm (691 words)

	Farm Scale Trials of GE Crops in UK Show Harm to Environment & Wildlife
		Not only did the FSEs show that GM is damaging the the environment, the UK government's own Scientific and Economic reports into the issue have shown there is little benefit to growing the crops, while the public debate showed clearly that the public was strongly resistant to their presence in agriculture and food.
		As a result, the UK Conservative opposition party, (aka the "Tories") have made an election pledge to keep Britain GM-Free until GM is proven beyond a doubt to be safe and liability structures are in place.
		The £6m UK Farm-Scale Evaluations (FSEs) of genetically modified (GM) plants have been described as the biggest ecological experiment in the world and a model for measuring the impact of new farming techniques on the environment.
	www.organicconsumers.org /ge/harmfulge32905.cfm (4059 words)

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		Opposition days are days allocated in each session for the discussion of subjects chosen by the Oppo...
		The Leader of the Opposition is the title given to the leader of the second largest party in the Hou...
		The Shadow Cabinet is made up of front bench MPs and peers from the second largest party, or officia...
	www.explore.parliament.uk /Parliament.aspx?lnk=29 (101 words)

	The Spectator.co.uk
		Moreover, here was a leader of the opposition who continued to support the government even as more than a million people marched through the streets of London in the biggest demonstration of popular opposition to any government in British history.
		As shadow defence secretary in the late 1990s, IDS had developed close contacts with neoconservative think-tanks in the US, whose blueprint for a new American security policy has since been adopted by the Bush administration.
		Outside the shadow Cabinet, a number of junior frontbench spokesmen did express reservations — indeed, four were to quit — but the shadow Cabinet itself was comfortable with the policy.
	www.antiwar.com /spectator/spec12.html (1558 words)

	UK home minister comes in for flak - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		One of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's most senior cabinet colleagues is facing a personal credibility crisis following the resignation of a junior minister in charge of immigration who has admitted that she knew a year ago that the UK's visa system was being abused.
		Shadow Home Secretary Mr Davis has meanwhile renewed his calls for the whole issue of eastern European immigration controls to be put before an independent inquiry rather than the internal investigation being led by a senior immigration department official.
		The allegations led to an internal inquiry, but the UK government played down Mr Moxon's allegations by insisting that 80 per cent of the applicants involved were already in the country.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr252004/f3.asp (562 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| Opposition
		Her Majesty's Opposition is usually the largest minority party in the House of Commons.
		The opposition sits to the Speaker's left in the Commons chamber, facing the government benches.
		In the same way that the Prime Minister forms a cabinet, so the leader of the opposition forms a shadow cabinet, which acts as a 'government-in-waiting' and consists of the leading figures from the official opposition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/82593.stm (177 words)

	WINHS.org - World Institute of Natural Health Sciences - The Science
		The EVM report is seen by the UK government as the basis for its negotiating position in the process of setting these pan-European limits.
		The apparent anti-nutritional-supplement, anti-self-care bias that permeated the process of setting safety levels is evident both in the way in which the SUL was defined and in the fact that the benefits of nutritional supplements were purposely ignored.
		It would be of little consolation that the higher doses of vitamins and minerals could still be obtained with a doctor's prescription, because most doctors know less about nutrition than do many of their patients.
	www.winhs.org /thescience/journal_01.htm (6686 words)

	The End for GM Crops: Final British Trial Confirms Threat to Wildlife
		The study was the fourth in a series that has, in effect, sealed the fate of GM in the UK - at least in the foreseeable future.
		Since then, the GM industry in Britain has withered on the vine, despite the fact that some members of the Government, and Tony Blair in particular, were privately great supporters of it from the outset.
		Official policy is portrayed as being neutral and based simply on scientific advice.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0322-04.htm (1395 words)

	ipedia.com: Liberal Democrats (UK) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It is currently the third-largest party in the UK Parliament, behind Labour and the Conservatives, and currently has 55 members of Parliament, the most a third party has had since the 1930s.
		In recent times the Liberal Democrats have won support due to their opposition to the war on Iraq and Charles Kennedy has expressed his intention for his party to replace the Conservatives as the main opposition.
		They therefore style themselves as a Shadow Cabinet, though this was previously the title used to describe the group of leading spokesmen and women associated with the official Leader of the Opposition, i.e.
	www.ipedia.com /liberal_democrats__uk_.html (2437 words)

	CNN.com - Blair shaping new government - June 9, 2001
		The main surprise of Blair's cabinet reshuffle was the replacement of Foreign Secretary Robin Cook -- the most Europhile member of Blair's team -- with former Home Minister Jack Straw.
		Cook remains in the Cabinet as leader of the House of Commons.
		Blair's official spokesman, Alastair Campbell, downplaying suggestions Cook was being demoted, said: "Robin is a formidable parliamentarian, a House of Commons man. The Prime Minister thinks that there is an opportunity to use his considerable talents in another way.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/09/blair.changes (705 words)

	Ethiopian Review Readers Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		Having a shadow defense minister who is consistently reminding the military rank and file about their constitutional responsibilities would play a critical role in preventing the Meles regime from unleashing the military's fire power on the people.
		The main leader of the opposition now is Ato Hailu Shawel, so he should be the shadow prime minister, and be allowed by to appoint his shadow cabinet.
		Shadow Cabinet is a good IDEA but only on Democratical basis to start with and to be able to live with for ever 6.
	pub39.bravenet.com /forum/3267868175/show/406924 (6873 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Bruce Bartlett beats me to the punch
		Opposition parties always have "shadow cabinets," where designated people target particular departments for special attention.
		And shadow cabinets make it easier to create coalitions and help assuage the fears of those wary of changing horses in the middle of a stream.
		The UK has a shadow cabinet, and it may be a good idea for the US as well to strongly hint at a shadow cabinet.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/001472.html (2011 words)

	Headlines \| Rocky path ahead for post-coup opposition pack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		First, these five are inadequate to constitute a Shadow Cabinet which must have equal numbers to the current number of Government ministries which stand at 32, including four in the Office of the President and three under the Vice-President.
		This by itself means Biwott will commence his duties as Leader of the Official Opposition from a point of weakness since his grouping cannot be expected to push any agenda in the House.
		Likewise, it also means the Official Opposition party under Biwott cannot be expected to block any Government Motions and Bills, including any that might be perceived to be openly anti-people.
	www.eastandard.net /hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143961834 (531 words)

	Privacy International - UK National ID Cards
		With only a few weeks left in the UK government's "silent consultation" on the National ID card, The government is still publicly claiming that there is majority support for ID cards, so now is the time to register your concern.
		Privacy International is organising a public meeting on the UK Government's Entitlement Card proposal on 11 December 2002 at the London School of Economics.
		The shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin said, "In place of clarity and definition, we have here obscurity and spin." There have been editorials against it in the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, and Sun, among other papers.
	www.privacy.org /pi/activities/idcard/uk (2121 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (UK) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Official Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet (normally referred to simply as 'The Shadow Cabinet') is, in British parliamentary practice, a group of members from Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition whose job it is to scrutinise their opposite numbers in government and come up with alternative policies.
		Not every Conservative frontbench spokesman is a member of the Shadow Cabinet, which represents the most senior spokesmen only (usually around 20).
		In recent years the Liberal Democrats have started to style their senior front-bench team as a Shadow Cabinet although convention has usually only applied the title to the senior front-bench team of the principle opposition party.
	reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_(UK) (321 words)

	Britannia Panorama: British Government
		Leaders of the Government and Opposition sit on the front benches on either side of the Commons chamber with their supporters - the backbenchers - sitting behind them.
		Depending on the relative strengths of the parties in the House of Commons, the Opposition may seek to overthrow the Government by defeating it in a vote on a 'matter of confidence'.
		The Opposition performs this role both by debating issues and putting questions on the floor of both Houses and through the committee system.
	www.britannia.com /gov/gov9.html (910 words)

	[A-List] UK state: Treasury "modernisation"
		Connecting Brown with the party and the unions, is his political secretary Sue Nye, a dyed-in-the-wool Labour supporter who met her husband, millionaire BBC chairman Gavyn Davies, when they were both working in No 10 under Jim Callaghan in the 70s.
		She helped organise the notoriously disorganised Brown when he was shadow chancellor, but since Labour came to power she has been able to hand that job to civil servants.
		Officially a member of the council of economic advisers, Vadera is the main point of contact between the Treasury and the City, and is known for not suffering bright junior officials, let alone fools, gladly.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-April/037019.html (1142 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - UK Parliament Report
		The Liberal Democrats were clear in their opposition to the US 'shield', referring to the scheme as "a threat to international stability and arms control agreements".
		The shape of the long-term Conservative Shadow Cabinet will not be known until their leadership election is concluded in the coming months.
		After President Bush's speech on May 1, officially launching the global consultation process while setting it firmly in the context of a US determination to proceed with its plans, Tony Blair told the Commons that Britain would welcome the discussions, refusing once again to be drawn on any specifics concerning Fylingdales or Menwith Hill.
	www.acronym.org.uk /textonly/dd/dd57/57uk.htm (2442 words)

	UK NEWS
		Officials in Brussels said the recommendation by the committee was merely preliminary advice that would still have to be considered by the European Commission and EU member states.
		The shadow cabinet agreed to oppose government orders implementing the ban next week on the grounds that it was a "disproportionate response to a one-in-a-billion risk".
		The initial view among officials was that the UK's concerns about bone marrow were at odds with previous findings of EU veterinary experts who consider marrow to be low on the list of cattle parts most at risk of carrying BSE.
	www.mad-cow.org /~tom/dec15_UK_news.html (15842 words)

	Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the Conservative Party has been, since 1997, Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, its leadership therefore forms the current Shadow Cabinet.
		Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet
		Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_(UK) (281 words)

	[MCShadow] Our Mission Statement
		The MCSC, or Middlebury College Shadow Cabinet, is a political and economic think-tank comprised of students that aim to "shadow" current US eco-political ties by systematic research of different economic sectors, political discussion, and, most importantly, a transmission of ideas and articles via our fully automated website.
		The underlying idea behind the MCSC formulation is "Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition" - the official shadow cabinet of the UK.
		When a particular party is in office, a "shadow" cabinet follows it, critiques it, and makes counter-policy recommendations if it feels that the party in power has made a mistake.
	community.middlebury.edu /~mcshadow/article.php3?id_article=12 (312 words)

	Ex-Ministers: Jobs After Government [February 20, 2002]
		Ministers should not exercise the influence obtained from their public office, or use official information, to obtain any improper benefit for themselves or another.
		In Britain, the issue is fuzzier, but it is doubtful that Reith would meet the standards laid down as guidance for the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, an independent body that vets appointments of ministers for up to two years after they leave office.
		This week, the Opposition Leader, Simon Crean, called for modification of the Howard Ministerial Code Of Conduct to prevent former ministers using their knowledge and contacts to derive unfair advantage for their new employers.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/02-02-20a.shtml (1201 words)

	A Way With Words, The Electronic Newsletter of Wordorigins.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		By law, members of Congress are prohibited from serving in the cabinet; they must resign their seats in the legislature before joining the president's administration.
		The main opposition party in Britain forms a shadow cabinet (1906) of politicians who would run the cabinet ministries if their party comes to power.
		The term shadow cabinet is unknown in the US, although the District of Columbia elects shadow senators because, not being a state, the capital city does not have representation in that branch of the legislature.
	www.wordorigins.org /AWWW/Vol04/AWWW050605.html (1193 words)

	World War III Report No. 17
		In the Jan. 17 UK Guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg reported from Kabul on a wave of armed robberies, carjackings and murders by the Northern Alliance militiamen still occupying the city.
		Kabul police and officials who were fired by the Pashtun-dominated Taliban for speaking Dari, the lingua franca of the Tajiks and other northern ethnicities, are back on the force.
		Jerusalem officials acknowledge the government is trying to limit Palestinian population growth in the city.
	shadow.autono.net /sin001/wwIII/war17.htm (6775 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - A gifted leader with Euro vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In what some described as his finest act as leader of the opposition, Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the shadow cabinet for his virulent "rivers of blood" speech on immigration.
		In opposition, Heath and his shadow team met at Surrey's Selsdon Park hotel to write the Tory manifesto, which adopted a hard-right agenda of cutting public spending, reducing taxes and taming the unions.
		He was asked to go by the UK government - though the request was withdrawn once Mrs Thatcher, then the prime minister, heard of it.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/43478626-f728-11d9-aeff-00000e2511c8.html (2346 words)

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