Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

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Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
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since 8 July 2024
Member ofOpposition Shadow Cabinet
AppointerLeader of the Opposition
Inaugural holderRichard Stokes

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The shadow secretary of state for defence is a member of the UK Shadow Cabinet responsible for the scrutiny of the secretary of state for defence and the department, the Ministry of Defence. The post is currently held by James Cartlidge.

List of shadow secretaries for defence

Shadow ministers of defence

Name Entered office Left office Political party Shadow Cabinet
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Richard Stokes File:Richard Stokes.jpg 15 July 1955 30 November 1956[1] Template:Party shading/Labour rowspan=2 | Labour Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Labour | Gaitskell
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | George Brown File:George Brown 1967 (3x4 cropped).jpg 30 November 1956 30 November 1961 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Patrick Gordon Walker File:Patrick Gordon Walker.jpg 30 November 1961 22 February 1963 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Template:Party shading/Labour | Brown
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Denis Healey File:Denis Healey.jpg 22 February 1963 1 April 1964 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson I

Shadow secretaries of state for defence

Name Entered office Left office Political party Shadow Cabinet
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Denis Healey File:Denis Healey.jpg 1 April 1964 16 October 1964 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Peter Thorneycroft File:Peter Thorneycroft cropped.png 16 October 1964 16 February 1965[2] Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Christopher Soames File:Christopher Soames.jpg 16 February 1965 4 August 1965[3] Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Enoch Powell File:Enoch Powell 6 Allan Warren.jpg 4 August 1965 21 April 1968 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Heath I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Reginald Maudling File:Reginald Maudling, 1969 (Brightned) (cropped).jpg 21 April 1968 14 November 1968[4] Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Geoffrey Rippon File:Geoffrey Rippon (1970).jpg 14 November 1968 19 June 1970 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Denis Healey File:Denis Healey Davos.jpg 19 June 1970 24 July 1970 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | George Thomson File:George Thomson (1973).jpg 24 July 1970 10 April 1972[5][6] Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Roy Hattersley File:Roy Hattersley 2012 cropped 2.jpg 11 April 1972 7 December 1972[7] Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fred Peart File:No image.svg 7 December 1972 4 March 1974 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ian Gilmour File:No image.svg 4 March 1974 19 June 1974 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Heath II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Peter Walker File:No image.svg 19 June 1974 18 February 1975 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | George Younger File:George Younger.JPEG 18 February 1975 15 January 1976 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ian Gilmour File:No image.svg 15 January 1976 4 May 1979 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fred Mulley File:Fred Mulley.PNG 4 May 1979 14 June 1979 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | William Rodgers File:Official portrait of Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank crop 2.jpg 14 June 1979 8 December 1980 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Brynmor John File:No image.svg 8 December 1980 24 November 1981 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Foot
style="background-color: Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 1px red" height=30 | John Silkin File:John Silkin.png 24 November 1981 26 October 1984 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Labour | Kinnock
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Denzil Davies File:No image.svg 26 October 1984 14 June 1988 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Martin O'Neill File:Official portrait of Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan crop 2.jpg 14 June 1988 18 July 1992 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | David Clark File:Official portrait of Lord Clark of Windermere crop 2, 2019.jpg 18 July 1992 2 May 1997 rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Smith
Template:Party shading/Labour | Beckett
Template:Party shading/Labour | Blair
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | John Major File:John Major 1996.jpg 2 May 1997 11 June 1997 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Major
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | George Young File:Sir George Young2 cropped.jpg 11 June 1997 1 June 1998 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Hague
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | John Maples File:No image.svg 1 June 1998 15 June 1999 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Iain Duncan Smith File:Iain Duncan Smith Nightingale 1 (cropped).JPG 15 June 1999 18 September 2001 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Bernard Jenkin File:Official portrait of Mr Bernard Jenkin crop 2.jpg 18 September 2001 6 November 2003 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Duncan Smith
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Nicholas Soames File:Nicholas Soames in Prague (1) (cropped).jpg 6 November 2003 10 May 2005 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Howard
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Michael Ancram[8] File:Global Strategy Forum (6963381142) cropped.jpg 10 May 2005 6 December 2005 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Liam Fox[9] File:Liam Fox MP, 2007 (cropped).jpg 7 December 2005 6 May 2010 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Cameron
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Bob Ainsworth[10] File:Bob Ainsworth cropped.jpg 12 May 2010 8 October 2010 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Harman I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Jim Murphy[11] File:JimMurphyMP.jpg 8 October 2010 7 October 2013 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Miliband
style="background-color: Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 1px red" height=30 | Vernon Coaker[12] File:Official portrait of Vernon Coaker crop 2.jpg 7 October 2013 14 September 2015 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Template:Party shading/Labour | Harman II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Maria Eagle[13] File:Official portrait of Maria Eagle crop 2.jpg 14 September 2015 5 January 2016 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Labour | Corbyn
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Emily Thornberry[14] File:Emily Thornberry, 2016 Labour Party Conference 4.jpg 5 January 2016 27 June 2016 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Clive Lewis[15] File:Clive Lewis, 2016 Labour Party Conference 2 (cropped).jpg 27 June 2016 6 October 2016 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Nia Griffith[16] File:Official portrait of Nia Griffith crop 2.jpg 6 October 2016 6 April 2020 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | John Healey[17] File:John Healey Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped) 2.jpg 6 April 2020 5 July 2024 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Starmer
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | James Cartlidge File:Official portrait of James Cartlidge MP crop 2, 2024.jpg 8 July 2024 Incumbent rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Sunak
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Badenoch

See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Labor Adds to "Cabinet"". London: The Windsor Daily Star. Reuters. 30 November 1956. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sir Alec Reshuffles Shadow Cabinet". The Glasgow Herald. 17 February 1965. p. 1. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Party unify seen factor in Heath "cabinet" choices". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. London. Associated Press. 5 August 1965. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Maudling Leads Tory General Election Drive". The Glasgow Herald. 15 November 1968. p. 1. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.John Warden (12 April 1972). "Wilson acts to sten defections". The Glasgow Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Peter Long (13 April 1972). "Wilson patches up front ranks". The Sydney Morning Herald. London. p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
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  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Marquess of Lothian". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dr Liam Fox". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mr Bob Ainsworth". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mr Jim Murphy". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lord Coaker". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Maria Eagle". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Emily Thornberry". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Clive Lewis". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dame Nia Griffith". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."John Healey". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

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