and also served as PPS to Lord Digby Jones, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and between July 2007 and October 2008. On 27 January 2009, he resigned his PPS role as he opposed the Government's plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. In opposition In October 2010, Slaughter was invited to join the Labour frontbench as Shadow Justice Minister with responsibility for courts and tribunals, criminal law, freedom of information, the legal profession, civil justice reform and Legal Aid. Slaughter served as the lead shadow minister opposing the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and the Justice and Security Act 2012. He resigned in June 2016, citing concerns over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. He supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election. He was appointed as Shadow Minister for Housing in October 2016, however he was sacked from the frontbench in June 2017 after he voted in favour of an amendment to the Queen's Speech which called on the UK to remain in the European Single Market, in defiance of the Labour whip. In the November 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, he became the new Shadow Solicitor General. References External links Local Labour Party Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Andrew Slaughter MP Andrew Slaughter's Chambers Ealing Gazette newspaper column written by Andrew Slaughter and other Ealing MPs Ealing Times newspaper column written by Andrew Slaughter and other Ealing MPs until 2008 BBC Politics 1960 births Living people Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Councillors in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham People educated at Latymer Upper School Alumni of the University of Exeter People from Hammersmith People from Fulham UK MPs 2005–2010 UK MPs 2010–2015 UK MPs 2015–2017 UK MPs 2017–2019 UK MPs 2019–present British republicans