Jeremy Corbyn announces Labour frontbench appointments
The appointments include some who had resigned positions in the shadow cabinet last year and a former minister under Tony Blair.
Monday 3 July 2017 17:21, UK
Jeremy Corbyn has announced 20 appointments to his shadow cabinet, including some who had resigned his team last year.
Among noteworthy appointments is Gloria de Piero, who told the Labour leader last year that she was quitting because she did not believe he could deliver victory.
The Ashfield MP becomes shadow justice minister.
Great Grimsby's Melanie Onn becomes a housing spokeswoman as she returns to the frontbench after joining the mass resignation of shadow ministers in the wake of the EU referendum in June 2016.
Three MPs elected to the Commons for the first time at the General Election on 8 June were also among the appointments.
Mr Corbyn said the appointments filled the Labour frontbench with a "wealth of talent" and "are further evidence that Labour is not just the opposition - we are the government in waiting".
Tony Lloyd, who was a minister under Tony Blair and chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party before quitting Parliament in 2012 to run for Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, was also appointed.
Mr Lloyd, who is now MP for Rochdale, takes up a position in housing.
Former Coronation Street actress Tracy Brabin, who won Batley & Spen in the by-election forced by Jo Cox's murder and retained it at the snap general election, takes up a post in the education team.
Here is the full list of appointments:
:: DEFRA
David Drew
Holly Lynch
:: Home Affairs
Nick Thomas Symonds
Chris Williamson
Afzal Khan
Louise Haigh
:: Scotland
Paul Sweeney
:: Justice
Gloria di Piero
Imran Hussain
:: International Development
Roberta Blackman Woods
:: Transport
Rachel Maskell
Karl Turner
:: Treasury
Anneliese Dodds
:: Housing
Tony Lloyd
Melanie Onn
:: Women and equalities
Carolyn Harris
:: Defence
Gerald Jones
:: Local Government
Yvonne Fovargue
:: Education
Tracey Brabin
::Wales
Chris Ruane