Shadow Secretary of State for Education

Shadow Secretary of State for Education 	Shadow Secretary of State for Education	Shadow Secretary of State for Education	Shadow Secretary of State for Education	Shadow Secretary of State for Education
 	 	 	 	
Incumbent 	Incumbent 	 	 	
imlikeahermit 	imlikeahermit 	 	 	
since 15th November 2020 	since 15th November 2020 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
Category 	Shadow Cabinet position 	 	 	
Inaugural holder 	Roger Kirk 	 	 	
Number of Shadow Education Secretaries since September 2013	18 	 	 	
The Shadow Education Secretary, known in full as the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, is a member of the opposition's shadow cabinet that shadows the Secretary of State for Education. The Shadow Education Secretary is responsible for holding them to account and has the ability to ask the Education Secretary two questions at question times. The current Shadow Education Secretary is imlikeahermit, who was appointed on 15th November 2020.
==List of Shadow Education Secretaries==
Roger Kirk was appointed as the first Shadow Education Secretary for the Labour Party following the first general election. Since shadow cabinet records began in September 2013, there have been 18 Shadow Education Secretaries.
Shadow Education Secretary	Alternative Role 	Party	Party 	Took office 	Left office
Mechie 	Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Higher Education 	 	Labour 	September 2013	March 2014
Will95206 	Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Education and Local Government 	 	Conservative	April 2014 	August 2014
Mazzini 	Shadow Minister of State for Education 	 	Liberal 	August 2014 	October 2014
bun 	 	 	Conservative	May 2015 	July 2015
tmpearce99 	Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Higher Education and Public Services	 	Labour 	July 2015 	August 2015
bun 	Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Education 	 	Conservative	October 2015 	April 2016
SakuraCayla 	 	 	Labour 	May 2016 	October 2016
CoffeeGeek 	 	 	Conservative	November 2016 	December 2017
WobblyBovine 	Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Young People 	 	Labour 	December 2017 	March 2018
cranbrook_aspie 	Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Young People 	 	Labour 	March 2018 	May 2018
WobblyBovine 	 	 	Labour 	May 2018 	November 2018
RayApparently 	 	 	Labour 	November 2018 	December 2018
DayneD89 	 	 	Labour 	December 2018 	July 2019
The Mogg 	Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department and Education 	 	Conservative	July 2019 	March 2020
SankaraInBloom 	Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department, Education and CMS 	 	Conservative	March 2020 	March 2020
LiberOfLondon 	 	 	Conservative	March 2020 	May 2020
r.uh 	 	 	Labour 	May 2020 	November 2020
imlikeahermit 	 	 	Conservative	November 2020 	Incumbent
Category:Shadow Cabinet