| 1 | The party which wins the second largest number of seats becomes theOfficial Opposition, with its own leader and "shadow cabinet ". | |
| 2 | In discussions around the shadow cabinet table, says one associate, "she can be very sharp, steely in cutting somebody short if she has lost interest in what is being said." | |
| 3 | And the preparations for government now being undertaken by the shadow cabinet are, at Cameron's insistence, putting the environment deep into policymaking. | |
| 4 | It is overseen by Francis Maude, the shadow cabinet-office spokesman, and Nick Boles, a former think-tank boss and Tory parliamentary candidate. | |
| 5 | One of Mr Osborne' s unofficial roles in opposition was managing shadow-cabinet colleagues, guiding, cajoling and admonishing as required. |