Elections to the
Labour Party's
Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") were announced on 28 October 1983.
[''Keesing's Contemporary Archives'', vol.XXIX] In addition to the 15 members elected, the Leader (
Neil Kinnock), Deputy Leader (
Roy Hattersley),
Labour Chief Whip (
Michael Cocks), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (
Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos), and Chairman of the
Parliamentary Labour Party (
Jack Dormand
John Donkin Dormand, Baron Dormand of Easington (27 August 1919 – 18 December 2003) was a British educationist and Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Easington in County Durham, in the north-east of England. He was Memb ...
) were automatically members.
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he ...
, who had previously been automatically a shadow cabinet member as Deputy Leader, topped the poll.
Robin Cook,
Michael Meacher and
Giles Radice joined the cabinet; Jones and Meacher had not stood in 1982.
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1983
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1983 elections in the United Kingdom
October 1983 events in the United Kingdom