Miliband announces shadow CLG team
The Labour Party has announced the MPs who will work with Caroline Flint to shadow the Communities and Local Government department.
Alison Seabeck, Barbara Keeley, Jack Dromey, and Chris Williamson will work alongside Ms Flint, who was handed the job of shadow communities secretary last week.
The party has not yet announced which of the MPs will take on the shadow housing brief. Mr Dromey, the MP for Birmingham, Erdington, has been a prominent advocate of the need for more affordable housing and supporter of pressure group Defend Council Housing.
Emily Thornberry, who had been tipped as a possible housing shadow, has been given a role in health.
Karen Buck, MP for Westminster North and an outspoken critic of the government’s plans on housing benefit, has been given a role shadowing the Department for Work and Pensions. She will work alongside Stephen Timms, Margaret Curran, Rachel Reeves and shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander.
