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First Wilson shadow cabinet

Labour Shadow Cabinet of 1964 in British Politics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ110633716 ↗
Source-derived summary

The First Shadow Cabinet of Harold Wilson was created on 14 February 1963 following the death of Hugh Gaitskell on 18 January 1963.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “First Wilson shadow cabinet” is labour Shadow Cabinet of 1964 in British Politics. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through First, Wilson and shadow, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, First, Wilson and shadow is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110633716. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “First Wilson shadow cabinet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.