Sentence examples for post of shadow from inspiring English sources

Instead, he should ask for the post of shadow home secretary.

Jo Stevens, the MP for Cardiff Central, was given the post of shadow Welsh secretary.

Airey Neave chose as his reward the post of shadow Northern Ireland secretary.

Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour party, is to assume the post of shadow culture secretary.

John McDonnell, another veteran left-winger, is widely tipped to be offered the post of shadow chancellor.

He then backed the much younger man and was rewarded with the post of shadow foreign secretary.

Grayling was demoted from his position of shadow home secretary at the time of the 2010 election – one of the most senior posts in the shadow cabinet – to the post of employment minister outside the cabinet after the election.

Lots of sites are experimenting in this area, including Shadows (our posts on Shadows are here) and others.

Hammond held a number of shadow posts under successive Conservative leaders until his party was elected to government in 2010, whereupon Prime Minister Cameron appointed him transport secretary.

In her new role, Berger – who has held a variety of shadow posts since she entered parliament in 2010 – says that she will call the government out not just on cuts to mental health, but where budgets shrinking in other areas, such as social care, are having an impact.

I hope to provoke in this new series of posts a further understanding of shadow as having a collective element.