{{More citations needed|date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox government cabinet | cabinet_name = First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath | cabinet_number = | cabinet_type = Shadow Cabinet | jurisdiction = United Kingdom | flag = Flag of the United Kingdom.svg | flag_border = true | flag_width = | incumbent = 1965 – 1970 | image = File:Heathdod (cropped).JPG | image_size = | alt = | caption = | date_formed = 28 July 1965 | date_dissolved = 19 June 1970 | state_head_title = Monarch | state_head = Elizabeth II | government_head_title = Leader of the Opposition | government_head = Edward Heath | government_head_history = | deputy_government_head_title = Deputy Leader of the Opposition | deputy_government_head = Reginald Maudling | other_government_minister_title = | other_government_minister = | represented_by_title = | represented_by = | members_number = <!-- or | current_number = --> | former_members_number = | total_number = | political_party = {{ubl|{{Color box|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Conservative Party }} | legislature_status = Official Opposition | election = | last_election = | legislature_term = 43rd UK Parliament<br>44th UK Parliament | incoming_formation = 1965 Conservative Party leadership election | outgoing_formation = 1970 United Kingdom general election | previous = Douglas-Home shadow cabinet | successor = Second Wilson shadow cabinet }} The '''First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath''' was created on 28 July 1965 after the Conservative Party elected Edward Heath as its leader, replacing Alec Douglas-Home.
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==Shadow cabinet list== {| class=wikitable ! Portfolio ! Shadow Minister ! Term |- | Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition<br />Leader of the Conservative Party | Edward Heath | 1965–70 |- |Deputy Leader of the Opposition<br />Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | Reginald Maudling | 1965–70 |- | Shadow Secretary of State for External Affairs | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | 1965–66 |- | Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | Iain Macleod | 1965–70 |- | rowspan=2 |Shadow Foreign Secretary | Christopher Soames | 1965–66 |- | Alec Douglas-Home | 1966–70 |- | rowspan=2 | Shadow Home Secretary | Peter Thorneycroft | 1965–66 |- | Quintin Hogg | 1966–70 |- | rowspan=3 | Shadow Secretary of State for Defence | Enoch Powell | 1965–68 |- | Reginald Maudling | 1968 |- | Geoffrey Rippon | 1968–70 |- | rowspan=2 | Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Steel<br>Shadow President of the Board of Trade | Anthony Barber | 1965–67 |- | Keith Joseph | 1967–70 |- | rowspan=2 |Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science | Edward Boyle | 1965–69 |- | Margaret Thatcher | 1969–70 |- | rowspan=2 |Shadow Minister for Labour | Keith Joseph | 1965–67 |- | Robert Carr | 1967–70 |- | rowspan=3 |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 |- | rowspan=3 |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 |- | rowspan=4 | Shadow Minister of Transport | Martin Redmayne | 1965–66 |- | Peter Walker | 1966–68 |- | Margaret Thatcher | 1968–69 |- | Peter Walker | 1969–70 |- | rowspan=3 | Shadow Commonwealth Secretary | Selwyn Lloyd | 1965–66 |- | Reginald Maudling | 1966–68 |- | Alec Douglas-Home | 1968 |- | rowspan=3 | Shadow Minister for Power | Anthony Barber | 1966–67 |- | Keith Joseph | 1967 |- | Margaret Thatcher | 1967–68 |- | rowspan=2 | Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland | Michael Noble | 1965–69 |- | Gordon Campbell | 1969–70 |- | rowspan=2 | Shadow Secretary of State for Wales | Peter Thorneycroft | 1965–66 |- | Unknown | 1966–70 |- | rowspan=2 | Chairman of the Conservative Party | Edward du Cann | 1965–67 |- | Anthony Barber | 1967–70 |- | Opposition Chief Whip | William Whitelaw | 1965–70 |- | Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords | Lord Carington | 1965–70 |- | rowspan=3 | Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords | Viscount Dilhorne | 1965–66 |- | Baron Harlech | 1966–67 |- | Earl Jellicoe | 1967–70 |- | rowspan=2 | Shadow Minister without Portfolio | Duncan Sandys | 1965–66 |- | Quintin Hogg | 1965–66 |- ! colspan="3" |Other frontbenchers |- | rowspan=2 | Shadow Minister for Power | John Peyton | 1965–66 |- | Sir John Eden | 1968–70 |}
==Initial Shadow Cabinet== Heath announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 August 1965.<ref>{{cite news |title=Heath's Shadow Cabinet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WVxAAAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+front+bench&pg=PA1&article_id=1372,493672 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=5 August 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
* Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party * Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons * Alec Douglas-Home – Shadow Secretary of State for External Affairs * Christopher Soames – Shadow Foreign Secretary * Selwyn Lloyd – Shadow Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations * Enoch Powell – Shadow Secretary of State for Defence * Iain Macleod – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs * Anthony Barber – Shadow President of the Board of Trade and Shadow Secretary of State for Steel * Peter Thorneycroft – Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales * Edward Boyle – Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science * Keith Joseph – Shadow Minister for Social Services and Shadow Minister for Labour * Ernest Marples – Shadow Minister for Technology * John Boyd-Carpenter – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land * Joseph Godber – Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food * Martin Redmayne – Shadow Minister of Transport * Michael Noble – Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland * Edward du Cann – Chairman of the Conservative Party * Lord Carington – Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords * Viscount Dilhorne – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords * Duncan Sandys and Quintin Hogg – Shadow Minister without Portfolio
===Junior Shadow Ministers=== In October 1965 Heath announced the rest of his frontbench team.<ref>{{cite news |title=Heath's Second Team |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eE9AAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+front+bench&pg=PA1&article_id=1494,812194 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=6 October 1965 |page=18}}</ref>
* William Whitelaw – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons * Earl St Aldwyn – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords
====Agriculture, Fisheries and Food==== * James Scott-Hopkins – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
====Aviation==== * Robert Carr – Shadow Minister of Aviation * Keith Stainton – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation
====Broadcasting and Post Office==== * Paul Bryan – Shadow Postmaster General * David Gibson-Watt – Shadow Assistant Postmaster-General
====Defence==== * Tufton Beamish, Ronald Bell, John Eden, Nicholas Ridley – Shadow Ministers for Defence
====Education and Science==== * John Hill and David Price – Shadow Ministers for Education and Science
====External Affairs==== * Angus Maude – Shadow Minister for the Colonies * Nigel Fisher – Shadow Minister for the Commonwealth * Robert Lindsay and Priscilla Buchan – Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs * Christopher Chataway – Shadow Minister for Overseas Development
====Home Office==== * Richard Sharples – Shadow Minister for Home Affairs * Philip Goodhart – Shadow Minister for the Home Department
====Housing and Land==== * John Hay, Graham Page and Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Ministers for Housing and Land
====Law==== * John Hobson – Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales * Peter Thomas – Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales * Norman Wylie – Shadow Solicitor General for Scotland
====Labour and Social Services==== * Richard Wood – Shadow Minister of Health * Charles Longbottom – Shadow Minister of Pensions and National Insurance * Geoffrey Howe – Shadow Minister for Social Services * Arthur Tiley and William van Straubenzee– Shadow Minister for Labour
====Power==== * John Peyton – Shadow Minister for Power * Patrick McNair-Wilson – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power
====Public Building and Works==== * Robin Chichester-Clark (UUP) – Shadow Minister of Public Building and Works * Paul Channon – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works
====Scotland==== * Anthony Stodart – Shadow Minister for Scotland * Gordon Campbell and Ian MacArthur – Shadow Ministers for Scotland
====Technology==== * John Biffen – Shadow Minister of State for Technology
====Transpory==== * David Webster – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
====Treasury, Economic Affairs and Trade==== * Peter Walker – Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury * Patrick Jenkin – Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury * William Clark and Peter Emery – Shadow Ministers for Trade
==April 1966 reshuffle== Following the 1966 election Heath was forced to reshuffle his frontbench as three members of the Shadow Cabinet (Soames, Thorneycroft and Redmayne) had lost their seats.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mr Heath Streamlines His Team |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYBAAAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+Reginald+Maudling&pg=PA1&article_id=4123,3326575 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=20 April 1966 |page=1}}</ref>
* Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party * Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, Shadow Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Shadow Secretary of State for the Colonies and Shadow Minister for Overseas Development * Alec Douglas-Home – Shadow Foreign Secretary * Iain Macleod – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs * Quintin Hogg – Shadow Home Secretary * Enoch Powell – Shadow Secretary of State for Defence * Edward Boyle – Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science * Keith Joseph – Shadow Minister for Labour * Joseph Godber – Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food * Anthony Barber – Shadow President of the Board of Trade and Shadow Minister for Power * Geoffrey Rippon – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land * Michael Noble – Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland * Mervyn Pike – Shadow Minister for Social Services * Peter Walker – Shadow Minister of Transport * Edward du Cann – Chairman of the Conservative Party * Lord Carington – Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords * Lord Harlech – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords
===Junior Shadow Ministers=== * William Whitelaw – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons * Earl St Aldwyn – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords * John Hobson – Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales * Robert Carr – Shadow Minister of Aviation * Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury * Richard Wood – Shadow Minister for the Colonies * Robert Lindsay – Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs * Paul Bryan – Shadow Postmaster General * Robin Chichester-Clark (UUP) – Shadow Minister of Public Building and Works * Norman Wylie – Shadow Solicitor General for Scotland * George Younger – Shadow Minister for Scotland * David Price – Shadow Minister for Technology * Frederick Corfield – Shadow Minister for Trade and Power * David Gibson-Watt – Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
;Changes * 22 February 1967 - Anthony Barber become a Shadow Minister without Portfolio, Keith Joseph replaces hime at Trade and Industry with Robert Carr joining the shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Labour as well as Aviation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Barber is Key in Shadow Cabinet Moves |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGxAAAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+Keith+Joseph&pg=PA17&article_id=4259,4057121 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=23 February 1967 |page=17}}</ref> * 27 June 1967 - Lord Harlech resigns as Deputy Leader in the Lords and is replaced by Earl Jellicoe.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deputy Resigns |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lZplAAAAIBAJ&dq=Lord+Jellicoe&pg=PA17&article_id=5121,4115306 |access-date=6 May 2025 |work=The Vancouver Sun |agency=United Press International |date=27 June 1967 |location=London |page=17}}</ref> * 11 September 1967 - Edward du Cann resigns as party chairman and is replaced by Barber. * 10 October 1967 - Mervyn Pike resigns and is replaced by Robert Lindsay. Margaret Thatcher enters the shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Power. Patrick Jenkin replaces Thatcher at the Treasury.<ref>{{cite news |title=Younger Tories In Shadow Cabinet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH9AAAAAIBAJ&dq=lord+balniel&pg=PA1&article_id=2178,1659975 |work=The Glasgow Herald |access-date=17 April 2025 |date=11 October 1967}}</ref> * 21 April 1968 - Enoch Powell is sacked from the shadow cabinet after his racist Rivers of Blood speech the day before. Maudling becomes Shadow Defence Secretary and Douglas-Home Shadow Commonwealth Secretary
==November 1968 reshuffle== Another reshuffle was conducted in November 1968.<ref>{{cite news |title=Maudling Leads Tory General Election Drive |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tX9AAAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+Defence+Geoffrey+Rippon&pg=PA1&article_id=4653,2776284 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=15 November 1968 |page=1}}</ref>
* Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party * Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and Shadow Minister with responsibility for policy formation * Alec Douglas-Home – Shadow Foreign Secretary * Iain Macleod – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs * Quintin Hogg – Shadow Home Secretary * Geoffrey Rippon – Shadow Secretary of State for Defence * Edward Boyle – Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science * Keith Joseph – Shadow President of the Board of Trade * Robert Carr – Shadow Minister for Labour * Joseph Godber – Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food * Peter Walker – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land * Michael Noble – Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland * Robert Lindsay – Shadow Secretary of State for Social Services * Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Minister of Transport * Anthony Barber – Chairman of the Conservative Party * Lord Carington – Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords * Earl Jellicoe – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords
===Junior Shadow Ministers=== * William Whitelaw – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons * Earl St Aldwyn – Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords * Paul Channon - Shadow Minister for the Arts<ref>{{cite book |author1=Robert Malcolm Punnett |title=Front-bench opposition; the role of the Leader of the Opposition, the Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Government in British politics |date=1973 |publisher=London |pages=458–467 |isbn=978-0-435-83734-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/frontbenchopposi0000punn/page/458/mode/1up |access-date=18 April 2025}}</ref> * Peter Rawlinson – Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales * Frederick Corfield – Shadow Minister of Aviation * Patrick Jenkin – Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury * Bernard Braine – Shadow Minister for the Colonies * James Ramsden – Shadow Minister for Defence * Richard Wood – Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs * Maurice Macmillan – Shadow Minister of Health * Graham Page – Shadow Minister for Housing and Land * Paul Bryan – Shadow Postmaster General * Robin Chichester-Clark (UUP) – Shadow Minister of Public Building and Works * John Eden – Shadow Minister for Power * Norman Wylie – Shadow Solicitor General for Scotland * George Younger – Shadow Minister for Scotland * Charles Morrison - Shadow Minister for Sport * David Price – Shadow Minister for Technology * Terence Higgins – Shadow Minister for Trade * David Gibson-Watt – Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
;Changes *15 October 1969 – Edward Boyle resigns as Shadow Education Secretary.<ref>{{cite news |title=Boyle's "I Quit" shock for Heath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_iM-AAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+edward+boyle&pg=PA1&article_id=1624,2765890 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |publisher=Evening Times |date=15 October 1969}}</ref> *21 October 1969 – Thatcher replaces Boyle at Education. Keith Joseph takes Technology and Power, Walker adds Transport to Housing and Local Government.<ref>{{cite news |author1=John Warden |title=Shadow Cabinet's Three Changes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5JAAAAAIBAJ&dq=shadow+edward+boyle&pg=PA24&article_id=2828,4200705 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=22 October 1969 |page=24}}</ref>
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