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He had been Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jack Straw and was a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He had been a government whip with responsibilities for the justice department. But following the Cabinet Reshuffle of the 3 October 2008, Khan was promoted to be Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government. This was followed by a promotion to Minister of State for Transport in June 2009 and an appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. He became Shadow Secretary of State for Transport when Lord Adonis stood down from the position following the Labour Party's election defeat in May 2010. Following Gordon Brown's resignation as leader of the Labour Party he ran Ed Miliband's successful campaign to become leader of the Labour Party. In October 2010, he was elected to Shadow Cabinet, and appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in Ed Miliband's first Shadow Cabinet. He shadows Ken Clarke but assists Harriet Harman during Deupty Prime Minister's Questions against Nick Clegg and his team. He is regularly named as one of the most top 100 most influential London politicians in the Evening Standard's annual poll of the most influential 1000 Londoners. |
