the National Party and were key players in Muller's coup two months earlier, were both promoted and received new roles. Bishop became Shadow Leader of the House; Willis picked up the Education role. These promotions were regarded as replacing the more liberal but departing Kaye and Adams. Another significant promotion was that of first-term MP Harete Hipango who was moved up 21 places and made Shadow Attorney-General. Deputy leader Gerry Brownlee took a new portfolio for COVID-19 Border Response. Adams' drug reform role went to the conservative MP Nick Smith who, other than Collins and Brownlee, is the last remaining member of former Prime Minister John Key's 2008 Cabinet. As in previous National Party portfolio allocations, only MPs contesting the next election are assigned portfolios. The press release issued with most of the changes appears to have been incomplete; the National Party website shows Paulo Garcia holding the Land Information portfolio (which previously belonged to the now-retiring Hamish Walker), Agnes Loheni in an Associate Health role, and Jian Yang in the list of retiring MPs. Subsequent changes Under pressure from Collins, the first-term MP for Rangitata, Andrew Falloon, resigned from Parliament on 21 July 2020 after sending sexually explicit text messages to young women. Falloon had been ranked at 35 and was spokesperson for biosecurity, and an associate spokesperson for agriculture, economic development and transport. The National Party website was updated to show that senior whip Barbara Kuriger was allocated Falloon's agriculture role and third whip Tim van de Molen had picked up Falloon's biosecurity and transport responsibilities; the associate economic development portfolio was not reassigned. List of spokespersons Unranked MPs (retiring at 2020 election) Hon Amy Adams Hon Maggie Barry Hon Paula Bennett Rt Hon David Carter Hon Nathan Guy Hon Nikki Kaye Hon Anne Tolley (Deputy Speaker) Hon Nicky Wagner Sarah Dowie Alastair Scott Hamish Walker Jian Yang 53rd Parliament (November 2020–November 2021) Formation The 2020 election saw National lose 23 seats compared to its 2017 result, including 14 sitting MPs who failed to be re-elected. The composition of the new National caucus was definitively confirmed by the release of the final election results on 6 November, while the Government announced its new ministerial line-up on 2 November. Before the announcement of the new Shadow Cabinet, the party held a contest on 10 November for its leadership and whip roles, as required by its internal rules. On 6