Frontbench Team

Frontbench Team is a political term used in the Westminster system of government.^[1] It is used to describe the senior leadership of opposition parliamentarians in the British House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann.

United Kingdom

Political party		Frontbench Team	Years
Liberal Party (UK)		Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1945–1956
		Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1956–1967
		Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1967–1976
		Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1976–1988
Liberal Democrats (UK)	Liberal Democrat frontbench team	Frontbench Team of Paddy Ashdown	1988-1999
		Frontbench Team of Charles Kennedy	1999-2006
		Frontbench Team of Menzies Campbell	2006-2007
		Frontbench Team of Nick Clegg	2007-2010
		First Frontbench Team of Vince Cable	2007
		Frontbench Team of Tim Farron	2015-17
		Second Frontbench Team of Vince Cable	2017–19
		Frontbench Team of Jo Swinson	2019
		Frontbench Team of Ed Davey	2020-present
Labour Party		Opposition frontbench of Ed Miliband	2010–2015
		Opposition frontbench of Jeremy Corbyn	2015–2020
		Opposition frontbench of Keir Starmer	2020-present[2]
Conservative Party		Opposition frontbench of David Cameron	2005-2010[3]
Scottish National Party	Scottish National Party frontbench team	Frontbench Team of Angus Robertson	2015-2017[4]
		Frontbench Team of Ian Blackford	2017-2021
		Frontbench Team of Stephen Flynn	2021-present[5]
Change UK	Change UK Frontbench team		2019

Ireland

• Frontbench team of Pat Rabbitte
• Frontbench team of Eamon Gilmore
• Frontbench team of Enda Kenny
• Frontbench team of Gerry Adams