Labour Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle: Ivan Lewis To Move From Culture To DfiD, Angela Eagle New Shadow Leader Of The House

Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle

Ed Miliband has reshuffled Labour's shadow cabinet, promoting six rising stars of the new 2010 intake to his front bench team.

Former shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis will be moved to Dfid after a disastrous performance at the Labour party conference where he suggested journalists should be licenced. Harriet Harman will take over his role.

Stephen Twigg will shadow education - leaving Andy Burnham free to take over the health brief.

Angela Eagle will also move from shadowing the chief secretary to the Treasury to shadow leader of the House. She will be replaced by former Bank of England economist and 2010 intake MP Rachel Reeves.

Shadow Scotland secretary Ann McKechin has stepped down from the front bench. She will be replaced by new Glasgow East MP Margaret Curran.

New MPs Chuka Umunna and Liz Kendall have both been promoted. Umunna will become the shadow business secretary and Kendall shadow minister for care and older people.

Michael Dugher has been promoted to shadow minister without portfolio. Shaun Woodword is no longer shadow Northern Ireland minister - he will be replaced by Vernon Coaker.

The new list:

Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party

Ed Miliband MP

Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, Party Chair and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Harriet Harman MP

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

Ed Balls MP

Shadow Foreign Secretary

Douglas Alexander MP

Shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities

Yvette Cooper MP

Shadow Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Sadiq Khan MP

Shadow Chief Whip

Rosie Winterton MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Health

Andy Burnham MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Education

Stephen Twigg MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chuka Umunna MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

Jim Murphy MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Hilary Benn MP

Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

Angela Eagle MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Caroline Flint MP

Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Rachel Reeves MP

Shadow Minister for London and the Olympics

Tessa Jowell MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

Maria Eagle MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Policy Review Co-ordinator

Liam Byrne MP

Shadow Secretary of State for International Development

Ivan Lewis MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mary Creagh MP

Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office

Jon Trickett MP

Labour Party Deputy Chair and Campaign Coordinator

Tom Watson MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Vernon Coaker MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland

Margaret Curran MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Chair of the National Policy Forum

Peter Hain MP

Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

Lords Chief Whip

Lord Bassam of Brighton

Also attending Shadow Cabinet:

Shadow Minister for Care and Older People

Liz Kendall MP

Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

Michael Dugher MP

Shadow Attorney General

Emily Thornberry MP

Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

Lord Stewart Wood

John Denham will become Ed Miliband's PPS and will not stand as an MP at the next election.

A senior Labour source said Denham and Healey had quit a while ago, adding that the reshuffle today would be "pretty minor."

Ed Miliband said: “My decision to appoint half-a-dozen members of the 2010 intake shows the talent that Labour has and the way in which this new generation can join us in taking Labour’s agenda forward.

“Together we will show how the Government are failing to help families who face a cost of living crisis, how they are failing to take action on energy bills and rail fares and failing to get the economy moving again.

“They will show how we aspire to be a government not for more of the same but to deliver a new bargain for the British people.”

So who's in or out? See our slideshow below:

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