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| Clive Lewis has returned to Labour‘s front bench team in a shadow ministerial reshuffle. | |
| The Norwich South MP resigned from the Shadow Cabinet early last year after Jeremy Corbyn imposed a three-line whip on the Government’s Brexit bill. | |
| The former Shadow Business Secretary was made shadow minister for the Treasury on Friday alongside Lyn Brown, the MP for West Ham, Labour said. | |
| In December he was cleared of sexual harassment following a party investigation. A female activist had claimed Mr Lewis touched her inappropriately at a Momentum event, which he denied. | In December he was cleared of sexual harassment following a party investigation. A female activist had claimed Mr Lewis touched her inappropriately at a Momentum event, which he denied. |
| Mr Corbyn claimed his team was now a “Government-in-waiting”. | |
| The Labour leader’s second-tier reshuffle comes at the end of a bruising week for Prime Minister Theresa May, whose own attempts to reshape her top team went awry. | |
| Education Secretary Justine Greening quit the Government rather than move to a different department, and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt held on to his role – adding social care to his brief – by resisting the PM’s plan to swap him with Greg Clark, the Business Secretary. | |
| Other new shadow ministers appointed on Friday were: | |