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Cameron reshuffles shadow team | |
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Conservative leader David Cameron has reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet bringing in more women and younger MPs. | |
Education spokesman David Willetts has been moved and party chairman Francis Maude replaced by Caroline Spelman. | |
Pauline Neville-Jones, a career diplomat and former head of the Joint Intelligence committee, becomes shadow secretary for security. | |
Sayeeda Warsi is shadow communities secretary. She is thought to be the first Muslim in such a senior role. | |
The reshuffle comes four days after new PM Gordon Brown made extensive changes. | |
Dame Pauline will be elevated to the House of Lords as a working peer, as will Ms Warsi, a British-born Muslim of Pakistani origin. | |
Among changes made by Mr Brown was the splitting of the education portfolio into two - the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills. | |
Mr Cameron moved Mr Willetts to shadow John Denham as minister in charge of universities, while Michael Gove will shadow Ed Balls on schools and children. | |
Mr Gove entered Parliament in 2005, as did Jeremy Hunt who joins the shadow cabinet in charge of culture. Nick Herbert, who will handle justice, also enters the shadow cabinet. |