Churchill shadow cabinet

Churchill Shadow Cabinet
Shadow cabinet of the United Kingdom
1945–1951
Date formed	26 July 1945
Date dissolved	26 October 1951
People and organisations
Monarch	George VI
Leader of the Opposition	Winston Churchill
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Anthony Eden
Member party	Conservative Party
Status in legislature	Official Opposition
History
Election(s)	1945 United Kingdom general election
Successor	Attlee Shadow Cabinet

The Churchill Shadow Cabinet was the senior opposition group of the Conservative Party during Winston Churchill's leadership of the opposition from 1945 to 1951. It was formally known as the Leader's Consultative Committee and differed from the modern British shadow cabinet because members were not assigned official shadow portfolios.

Shadow Cabinet list

Position	Shadow Minister	Term
Leader of the Opposition	Winston Churchill	26 July 1945–26 October 1951
Deputy Leader of the Opposition Shadow Foreign Secretary	Anthony Eden	1945–1951
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer	Oliver Stanley	1945–10 December 1950
	Rab Butler	10 December 1950–26 October 1951
Chairman of the Conservative Party	Ralph Assheton	29 October 1944–1 July 1946
	Lord Woolton	1 July 1946–1 November 1955
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords	Marquess of Salisbury	1945–1951
Shadow Chief Whip	James Stuart	1941–1948
	Peter Buchan-Hepburn	1948–1951
Spokesperson for Health Spokesperson for Scotland	Walter Elliot	1946–1951
Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs	Richard Law	1945–1951
Spokesperson for Industry	Oliver Lyttelton	1945–1951
Spokesperson for Housing	Harold Macmillan	1946–1951
Spokesperson for Employment Spokesperson for Defence	David Maxwell Fyfe	1946–1951
Member of the Leader's Consultative Committee	R. A. Butler	1945 – 1951
	Oliver Stanley	1945 – 1950
	Harold Macmillan	November 1945 – 1951
	David Maxwell Fyfe	1945 – 1951
	Marquess of Salisbury	1945 – 1951
	Brendan Bracken	1945 – 1951
	Harry Crookshank	1945 – 1951
	James Stuart	1945 – 1951
	Walter Elliot	1945 – 1951
	Richard Law	1945 – 1951
	Oliver Lyttelton	1945 – 1951
	William Morrison	1945 – 1951
	John Anderson	1945 – 1951
	P. G. Buchan-Hepburn	1945 – 1951
	Ralph Assheton	1945 – 1946
	John Willink	1945 – 1951
	Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton	1946 – 1951

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