Caroline Flint named shadow planning minister
Labour leader Ed Miliband has appointed former housing minister Caroline Flint (pictured) as shadow communities and local government secretary.
Flint was appointed to Gordon Brown’s cabinet as housing and planning minister in 2008, before becoming minister of state for Europe. She resigned the position in 2009.
Alan Johnson has been appointed shadow chancellor, to take the government to task on its plans to cut public spending, while Andy Burnham has been named shadow education secretary.
John Healey has been appointed shadow health secretary. For the full line-up see below:
The shadow cabinet:
Deputy leader and shadow international development secretary: Harriet Harman
Shadow chancellor: Alan Johnson
Shadow Olympics minister: Tessa Jowell
Shadow business, innovation and skills secretary: John Denham
Shadow education secretary: Andy Burnham
Shadow health secretary: John Healey
Shadow communities and local government secretary: Caroline Flint
Shadow transport secretary: Maria Eagle
Shadow Cabinet Office minister : Liam Byrne
Shadow work and pensions secretary: Douglas Alexander
Shadow foreign and Commonwealth affairs secretary and minister for women and equalities: Yvette Cooper
Shadow home secretary: Ed Balls
Chief whip: Rosie Winterton
Shadow lord chancellor and justice secretary: Sadiq Khan
Shadow defence secretary of state: Jim Murphy
Shadow energy and climate change secretary: Meg Hillier
Shadow leader of the House of Commons: Hilary Benn
Shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary: Mary Creagh
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury: Angela Eagle
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary: Shaun Woodward
Shadow Scotland secretary: Ann McKechin
Shadow Wales secretary: Peter Hain
Shadow culture secretary: Ivan Lewis
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