First Heath 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.

Initial Shadow Cabinet

Heath announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 August 1965.

Edward Heath – Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition and Conservative Party (UK)|Leader of the Conservative Party]
Reginald Maudling – Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)|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.

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

James Scott-Hopkins – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Aviation

Broadcasting and Post Office

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

Home Office

Housing and Land

John Hay, Graham Page and Margaret Thatcher – Shadow Ministers for Housing and Land

Law

Labour and Social Services

Power

Public Building and Works

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

April 1966 reshuffle

Following the 1966 election Heath was forced to reshuffle his frontbench as three members of the Shadow Cabinet had lost their seats.

Junior Shadow Ministers

;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.
27 June 1967 - Lord Harlech resigns as Deputy Leader in the Lords and is replaced by Earl Jellicoe.
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.
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.

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

;Changes

15 October 1969 – Edward Boyle resigns as Shadow Education Secretary.
21 October 1969 – Thatcher replaces Boyle at Education. Keith Joseph takes Technology and Power, Walker adds Transport to Housing and Local Government.