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| Cameron reshuffles shadow team | Cameron reshuffles shadow team |
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| Conservative leader David Cameron has reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet bringing in more women and younger MPs. | 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. | Education spokesman David Willetts has been moved and party chairman Francis Maude replaced by Caroline Spelman. |
| Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, a career diplomat and former head of the Joint Intelligence committee, becomes shadow secretary for security. | Dame 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. | 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. | The reshuffle comes four days after new PM Gordon Brown made extensive changes. |
| Education split | Education split |
| 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 who was Conservative Party vice-chairwoman. | 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 who was Conservative Party vice-chairwoman. |
| Dame Pauline was most recently head of Mr Cameron's security policy review group, looking at national security, including terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism and social cohesion. | Dame Pauline was most recently head of Mr Cameron's security policy review group, looking at national security, including terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism and social cohesion. |
| 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. | 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. | Mr Cameron moved Mr Willetts to shadow John Denham as minister in charge of universities. |
| Mr Willetts was widely blamed for the internal row over grammar schools when he distanced himself from the traditional Tory belief in academic selection. | Mr Willetts was widely blamed for the internal row over grammar schools when he distanced himself from the traditional Tory belief in academic selection. |
| Michael Gove, previously the Tory housing spokesman, will shadow Ed Balls on schools and children. | Michael Gove, previously the Tory housing spokesman, 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 from being a spokesman on work and pensions. | |
| Nick Herbert, who will handle justice, also enters the shadow cabinet. He had been spokesman on police reform. |