Alan Johnson quits Shadow Cabinet for ‘family reasons’
ALAN Johnson’s resignation sparked a mini Shadow Cabinet reshuffle, with two of Yorkshire highest-profile MPs among the big winners.
Here are the changes in full:
Shadow Chancellor – Ed Balls, MP for Morley and Outwood;
Shadow Home Secretary – Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford;
Shadow Foreign Secretary – Douglas Alexander;
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary – Liam Byrne;
Shadow Cabinet Office Minister – Tessa Jowell.