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First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath
Shadow Cabinet ofUnited 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

TheFirst Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath was created on 28 July 1965 after theConservative Party electedEdward Heath as its leader, replacingAlec Douglas-Home.

Shadow cabinet list

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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	SirAlec Douglas-Home	1965–66
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer	Iain Macleod	1965–70
Shadow Foreign Secretary	Christopher Soames	1965–66
Shadow Foreign Secretary	Alec Douglas-Home	1966–70
Shadow Home Secretary	Peter Thorneycroft	1965–66
Shadow Home Secretary	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
Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science	Margaret Thatcher	1969–70
Shadow Minister for Labour	Keith Joseph	1965–67
Shadow Minister for Labour	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
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland	Gordon Campbell	1969–70
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales	Peter Thorneycroft	1965–66
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales	Unknown	1966–70
Chairman of the Conservative Party	Edward du Cann	1965–67
Chairman of the Conservative Party	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
Shadow Minister without Portfolio	Quintin Hogg	1965–66
Other frontbenchers
Shadow Minister for Power	John Peyton	1965–66
Shadow Minister for Power	SirJohn Eden	1968–70

Initial Shadow Cabinet

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

Junior Shadow Ministers

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

April 1966 reshuffle

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Following the1966 election Heath was forced to reshuffle his frontbench as three members of the Shadow Cabinet (Soames, Thorneycroft and Redmayne) had lost their seats.^[3]

Junior Shadow Ministers

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Changes

22 February 1967 -Anthony Barber become aShadow Minister without Portfolio,Keith Joseph replaces hime at Trade and Industry withRobert Carr joining the shadow cabinet asShadow Minister for Labour as well as Aviation.^[4]
27 June 1967 -Lord Harlech resigns asDeputy Leader in the Lords and is replaced byEarl 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 byRobert Lindsay.Margaret Thatcher enters the shadow cabinet asShadow Minister for Power.Patrick Jenkin replaces Thatcher at the Treasury.^[6]
21 April 1968 -Enoch Powell is sacked from the shadow cabinet after his racistRivers of Blood speech the day before. Maudling becomesShadow Defence Secretary andDouglas-Home Shadow Commonwealth Secretary

November 1968 reshuffle

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

Junior Shadow Ministers

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Changes

15 October 1969 –Edward Boyle resigns asShadow 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]

References

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^"Heath's Shadow Cabinet".The Glasgow Herald. 5 August 1965. p. 1. Retrieved16 April 2025.
^"Heath's Second Team".The Glasgow Herald. 6 October 1965. p. 18. Retrieved16 April 2025.
^"Mr Heath Streamlines His Team".The Glasgow Herald. 20 April 1966. p. 1. Retrieved16 April 2025.
^"Barber is Key in Shadow Cabinet Moves".The Glasgow Herald. 23 February 1967. p. 17. Retrieved16 April 2025.
^"Deputy Resigns".The Vancouver Sun. London. United Press International. 27 June 1967. p. 17. Retrieved6 May 2025.
^"Younger Tories In Shadow Cabinet".The Glasgow Herald. 11 October 1967. Retrieved17 April 2025.
^"Maudling Leads Tory General Election Drive".The Glasgow Herald. 15 November 1968. p. 1. Retrieved16 April 2025.
^Robert Malcolm Punnett (1973).Front-bench opposition; the role of the Leader of the Opposition, the Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Government in British politics. London. pp. 458–467.ISBN 978-0-435-83734-1. Retrieved18 April 2025.
^"Boyle's "I Quit" shock for Heath".The Glasgow Herald. Evening Times. 15 October 1969. Retrieved16 April 2025.
^John Warden (22 October 1969)."Shadow Cabinet's Three Changes".The Glasgow Herald. p. 24. Retrieved16 April 2025.

Edward Heath

Premiership

Opposition leadership

Elections

Party elections	1965 1975
General elections	1966 1970 February 1974 October 1974

Constituencies

Cultural depictions

Heathco Newsletter (Private Eye parody)
"Teach Yourself Heath" (Single, 1975)
The Long Walk to Finchley (TV film, 2008)
Margaret (TV film, 2009)
The Queen (TV serial, 2009)
The Iron Lady (Film, 2011)
The Crown
- S3 E8: "Dangling Man"
- S3 E9: "Imbroglio"

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