The annual election to the
Labour Party's
Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") was conducted in 1987.
[''The Times Guide to the House of Commons, June 1987'', p.21] In addition to the 16 members elected, the Leader (
Neil Kinnock), Deputy Leader (
Roy Hattersley),
Labour Chief Whip (
Derek Foster), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (
Cledwyn Hughes), and Chairman of the
Parliamentary Labour Party (
Stan Orme
Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, PC (5 April 1923 – 27 April 2005) was a British left-wing Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 to 1997, and served as a cabinet minister in the 1970s.
Early life
Stan Orme was born i ...
) were automatically members.
Following the
1987 general election, there were significant changes to the cabinet.
Barry Jones,
Peter Shore,
Peter Archer and
Giles Radice lost their seats, and other familiar faces such as
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 ...
did not stand.
Michael Meacher,
Robert Hughes,
Robin Cook,
Frank Dobson,
Gordon Brown,
Jo Richardson
Josephine Richardson (28 August 1923 – 1 February 1994) was a British Labour Party politician. At the time of her death she was Member of Parliament for Barking, a post she had held almost exactly 20 years, since 1974.
Early life
She was bo ...
and
Jack Straw gained seats.
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1987
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1987 elections in the United Kingdom