The Shadow Cabinet turnover

I prepared this post for the next Shadow Cabinet resignation as they've come so frequently, but with a new general election now looming it's best to post these statistics now.

Since the last general election there have been:

• 5 Shadow Business Secretaries
• 5 Shadow Culture, Media and Sports Secretaries
• 5 Shadow Defence Secretaries
• 5 Shadow Welsh Secretaries
• 4 Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretaries with a fifth to come
• 4 Shadow Attorney Generals plus a vacant period
• 4 Shadow Chief Secretaries to the Treasury
• 4 Shadow Education Secretaries
• 4 Shadow Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretaries
• 4 Shadow Health Secretaries
• 4 Shadow Leaders of the House of Commons
• 4 Shadow Ministers for Women and Equalities
• 3 Shadow Home Secretaries
• 3 Shadow International Development Secretaries
• 3 Shadow Ministers for the Cabinet Office
• 3 Shadow Ministers without Portfolio
• 3 Shadow Northern Ireland Secretaries
• 3 Shadow Transport Secretaries
• 3 Shadow Work and Pensions Secretaries
• 2 Shadow Chancellors
• 2 Shadow Foreign Secretaries
• 2 Shadow Housing Secretaries, plus a period of being vacant before the previous holder returned
• 2 Shadow Justice Secretaries
• 2 Shadow Scottish Secretaries
• 2 Chief Whips in the Commons
• 1 Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
• 1 Chief Whip in the Lords

Posts created since the start of the current Parliament:

• 2 Shadow Brexit Secretaries
• 2 Shadow Ministers for Mental Health and vacant for a period in the middle
• 2 Shadow Ministers for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs
• 1 Shadow International Trade Secretary
• 1 Shadow Lord President of the Council

Posts abolished mid Parliament:

• 3 Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretaries

Posts created and (apparently) abolished mid Parliament:

• 1 Shadow Minister for Diverse Communities

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