First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath

The First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath was created on 28 July 1965 after the Conservative Party elected Edward Heath as its leader, replacing Alec Douglas-Home.

First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath
Shadow Cabinet of United Kingdom
1965 – 1970
Date formed	28 July 1965
Date dissolved	19 June 1970
People and organisations
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Leader of the Opposition	Edward Heath
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Reginald Maudling
Member party	Conservative Party
Status in legislature	Official Opposition 303 / 630 (48%) (1964) 251 / 630 (40%) (1966)
History
Legislature terms	43rd UK Parliament 44th UK Parliament
Incoming formation	1965 Conservative Party leadership election
Outgoing formation	1970 United Kingdom general election
Predecessor	Shadow Cabinet of Alec Douglas-Home
Successor	Second Shadow Cabinet of Harold Wilson

Shadow cabinet list

Portfolio	Shadow Minister	Term
Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition Leader of the Conservative Party	Edward Heath	1965–70
Deputy Leader of the Opposition Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party	Reginald Maudling	1965–70
Shadow Secretary of State for External Affairs	Sir Alec Douglas-Home	1965–66
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer	Iain Macleod	1965–70
Shadow Foreign Secretary	Christopher Soames	1965–66
	Alec Douglas-Home	1966–70
Shadow Home Secretary	Peter Thorneycroft	1965–66
	Quintin Hogg	1966–70
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence	Enoch Powell	1965–68
	Reginald Maudling	1968
	Geoffrey Rippon	1968–70
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Steel Shadow President of the Board of Trade	Anthony Barber	1965–67
	Keith Joseph	1967–70
Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science	Edward Boyle	1965–69
	Margaret Thatcher	1969–70
Shadow Minister for Labour	Keith Joseph	1965–67
	Robert Carr	1967–70
Shadow Minister for Social Services	Keith Joseph	1965–66
	Mervyn Pike	1966–67
	Robert Lindsay	1967–70
Shadow Minister for Technology	Ernest Marples	1965–66
Shadow Minister for Housing and Land	John Boyd-Carpenter	1965–66
	Geoffrey Rippon	1966–68
	Peter Walker	1968–70
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	Joseph Godber	1965–70
Shadow Minister of Transport	Martin Redmayne	1965–66
	Peter Walker	1966–68
	Margaret Thatcher	1968–69
	Peter Walker	1969–70
Shadow Commonwealth Secretary	Selwyn Lloyd	1965–66
	Reginald Maudling	1966–68
	Alec Douglas-Home	1968
Shadow Minister for Power	Anthony Barber	1966–67
	Keith Joseph	1967
	Margaret Thatcher	1967–68
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland	Michael Noble	1965–69
	Gordon Campbell	1969–70
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales	Peter Thorneycroft	1965–66
	Unknown	1966–70
Chairman of the Conservative Party	Edward du Cann	1965–67
	Anthony Barber	1967–70
Opposition Chief Whip	William Whitelaw	1965–70
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords	Lord Carington	1965–70
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords	Viscount Dilhorne	1965–66
	Baron Harlech	1966–67
	Earl Jellicoe	1967–70
Shadow Minister without Portfolio	Duncan Sandys	1965–66
	Quintin Hogg	1965–66
Other frontbenchers
Shadow Minister for Power	John Peyton	1965–66
	Sir John Eden	1968–70

Initial Shadow Cabinet

Heath announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 August 1965.^[1]

• Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party
• Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• Alec Douglas-Home – Shadow Secretary of State for External Affairs
• Christopher Soames – Shadow Foreign Secretary
• Selwyn Lloyd – Shadow Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
• Enoch Powell – Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• Iain Macleod – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• Anthony Barber – Shadow President of the Board of Trade and Shadow Secretary of State for Steel
• Peter Thorneycroft – Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
• Edward Boyle – Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science
• Keith Joseph – Shadow Minister for Social Services and Shadow Minister for Labour
• Ernest Marples – Shadow Minister for Technology
• John Boyd-Carpenter – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land
• Joseph Godber – Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• Martin Redmayne – Shadow Minister of Transport
• Michael Noble – Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• Edward du Cann – Chairman of the Conservative Party
• Lord Carington – Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords
• Viscount Dilhorne – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords
• Duncan Sandys and Quintin Hogg – Shadow Minister without Portfolio

Junior Shadow Ministers

In October 1965 Heath announced the rest of his frontbench team.^[2]

• William Whitelaw – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
• Earl St Aldwyn – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

• James Scott-Hopkins – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Aviation

• Robert Carr – Shadow Minister of Aviation
• Keith Stainton – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation

Broadcasting and Post Office

• Paul Bryan – Shadow Postmaster General
• David Gibson-Watt – Shadow Assistant Postmaster-General

Defence

• Tufton Beamish, Ronald Bell, John Eden, Nicholas Ridley – Shadow Ministers for Defence

Education and Science

• John Hill and David Price – Shadow Ministers for Education and Science

External Affairs

• Angus Maude – Shadow Minister for the Colonies
• Nigel Fisher – Shadow Minister for the Commonwealth
• Robert Lindsay and Priscilla Buchan – Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Christopher Chataway – Shadow Minister for Overseas Development

Home Office

• Richard Sharples – Shadow Minister for Home Affairs
• Philip Goodhart – Shadow Minister for the Home Department

Housing and Land

• John Hay, Graham Page and Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Ministers for Housing and Land

Law

• John Hobson – Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales
• Peter Thomas – Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales
• Norman Wylie – Shadow Solicitor General for Scotland

Labour and Social Services

• Richard Wood – Shadow Minister of Health
• Charles Longbottom – Shadow Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
• Geoffrey Howe – Shadow Minister for Social Services
• Arthur Tiley and William van Straubenzee– Shadow Minister for Labour

Power

• John Peyton – Shadow Minister for Power
• Patrick McNair-Wilson – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power

Public Building and Works

• Robin Chichester-Clark (UUP) – Shadow Minister of Public Building and Works
• Paul Channon – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works

Scotland

• Anthony Stodart – Shadow Minister for Scotland
• Gordon Campbell and Ian MacArthur – Shadow Ministers for Scotland

Technology

• John Biffen – Shadow Minister of State for Technology

Transpory

• David Webster – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport

Treasury, Econmic Affairs and Trade

• Peter Walker – Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Patrick Jenkin – Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• William Clark and Peter Emery – Shadow Ministers for Trade

April 1966 reshuffle

Following the 1966 election Heath was forced to reshuffle his frontbench as three members of the Shadow Cabinet (Soames, Thorneycroft and Redmayne) had lost their seats.^[3]

• Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party
• Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, Shadow Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Shadow Secretary of State for the Colonies and Shadow Minister for Overseas Development
• Alec Douglas-Home – Shadow Foreign Secretary
• Iain Macleod – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• Quintin Hogg – Shadow Home Secretary
• Enoch Powell – Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• Edward Boyle – Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science
• Keith Joseph – Shadow Minister for Labour
• Joseph Godber – Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• Anthony Barber – Shadow President of the Board of Trade and Shadow Minister for Power
• Geoffrey Rippon – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land
• Michael Noble – Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• Mervyn Pike – Shadow Minister for Social Services
• Peter Walker – Shadow Minister of Transport
• Edward du Cann – Chairman of the Conservative Party
• Lord Carington – Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords
• Lord Harlech – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords

Junior Shadow Ministers

• William Whitelaw – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
• Earl St Aldwyn – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords
• John Hobson – Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales
• Robert Carr – Shadow Minister of Aviation
• Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Richard Wood – Shadow Minister for the Colonies
• Robert Lindsay – Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Paul Bryan – Shadow Postmaster General
• Robin Chichester-Clark (UUP) – Shadow Minister of Public Building and Works
• Norman Wylie – Shadow Solicitor General for Scotland
• George Younger – Shadow Minister for Scotland
• David Price – Shadow Minister for Technology
• Frederick Corfield – Shadow Minister for Trade and Power
• David Gibson-Watt – Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

Changes

• 22 February 1967 - Anthony Barber become a Shadow Minister without Portfolio, Keith Joseph replaces hime at Trade and Industry with Robert Carr joining the shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Labour as well as Aviation.^[4]
• 27 June 1967 - Lord Harlech resigns as Deputy Leader in the Lords and is replaced by Earl Jellicoe.^[5]
• 11 September 1967 - Edward du Cann resigns as party chairman and is replaced by Barber.
• 10 October 1967 - Mervyn Pike resigns and is replaced by Robert Lindsay. Margaret Thatcher enters the shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Power. Patrick Jenkin replaces Thatcher at the Treasury.^[6]
• 21 April 1968 - Enoch Powell is sacked from the shadow cabinet after his racist Rivers of Blood speech the day before. Maudling becomes Shadow Defence Secretary and Douglas-Home Shadow Commonwealth Secretary

November 1968 reshuffle

Another reshuffle was conducted in November 1968.^[7]

• Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party
• Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and Shadow Minister with responsibility for policy formation
• Alec Douglas-Home – Shadow Foreign Secretary
• Iain Macleod – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• Quintin Hogg – Shadow Home Secretary
• Geoffrey Rippon – Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• Edward Boyle – Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science
• Keith Joseph – Shadow President of the Board of Trade
• Robert Carr – Shadow Minister for Labour
• Joseph Godber – Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• Peter Walker – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land
• Michael Noble – Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• Robert Lindsay – Shadow Secretary of State for Social Services
• Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Minister of Transport
• Anthony Barber – Chairman of the Conservative Party
• Lord Carington – Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords
• Earl Jellicoe – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords

Junior Shadow Ministers

• William Whitelaw – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
• Earl St Aldwyn – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords
• Paul Channon - Shadow Minister for the Arts^[8]
• Peter Rawlinson – Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales
• Frederick Corfield – Shadow Minister of Aviation
• Patrick Jenkin – Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Bernard Braine – Shadow Minister for the Colonies
• James Ramsden – Shadow Minister for Defence
• Richard Wood – Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Maurice Macmillan – Shadow Minister of Health
• Graham Page – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land
• Paul Bryan – Shadow Postmaster General
• Robin Chichester-Clark (UUP) – Shadow Minister of Public Building and Works
• John Eden – Shadow Minister for Power
• Norman Wylie – Shadow Solicitor General for Scotland
• George Younger – Shadow Minister for Scotland
• Charles Morrison - Shadow Minister for Sport
• David Price – Shadow Minister for Technology
• Terence Higgins – Shadow Minister for Trade
• David Gibson-Watt – Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

Changes

• 15 October 1969 – Edward Boyle resigns as Shadow Education Secretary.^[9]
• 21 October 1969 – Thatcher replaces Boyle at Education. Keith Joseph takes Technology and Power, Walker adds Transport to Housing and Local Government.^[10]