Neath Labour MP Peter Hain resigned from the shadow cabinet to campaign for the barrage.
Perhaps a few members of Mr Hague's shadow cabinet harbour a secret desire to depart.
Mr Herbert becomes shadow environment secretary, replacing Peter Ainsworth, who leaves the shadow cabinet.
Labour recently voted to scrap shadow cabinet elections, giving Mr Miliband a free hand over appointments.
Compare Mr Hague's team with Tony Blair's shadow cabinet after he was elected Labour leader in 1994.
No member of the Shadow Cabinet had their resignation briefed out at 3am in the conference hotel bar.
Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
He entered Parliament in 1970, a Bennite class-warrior, joining Labour's shadow cabinet as a transport spokesman in 1979.
That was no doubt a deciding factor for the shadow cabinet seven coming clean with their drug-taking experiences.
But shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher, said the report was a "damning indictment of David Cameron's government".
Although MPs elect the shadow cabinet, the new party leader will decide which jobs the successful candidates get.
And shadow cabinet office minister Tessa Jowell said she was unconvinced by the government's defence of its idea.
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Announcing the changes, Mr Cameron said he now had the "strongest possible shadow cabinet" ready for a general election.
Only four of Mr Blair's shadow cabinet had tasted even junior ministerial office.
As elder statesmen they will be listened to by the country even if the shadow cabinet shuts its ears.
She also highlighted how the party saw Iain Duncan Smith's shadow cabinet as a gift to the Lib Dems.
Those people will demand the top jobs in his shadow cabinet in return for their support during the leadership contest.
Since the speech had been authorised and the text cleared by the shadow cabinet, Mr Lilley thought he was safe.
Tim Yeo is one of the most experienced performers in the shadow cabinet and has been an MP since 1983.
Labour recently voted to scrap shadow cabinet elections, giving party leader Ed Miliband a free hand over who to appoint.
And he described the shadow cabinet's decision as in the interest neither of the country nor of the Tory party.
Britain should eventually stage an in-or-out referendum on membership of the European Union, one of Labour's shadow cabinet has said.
These days the shadow cabinet is appointed rather than elected, so Ed Miliband will have more MPs to choose from.
His shadow cabinet is scattered around the country, and they know that disloyalty to the central line is political death.
There is talk within Lakas of forming a shadow cabinet, and members of Congress mutter about impeaching the ill-starred president.
And the position of shadow Europe minister, retained by eurosceptic MP Mark Francois, has been elevated to a shadow cabinet post.
Almost to a man the shadow cabinet gave him their votes, serenely confident in the knowledge they could not save him.
Defeated leadership candidates Andy Burnham, Ed Balls and Diane Abbott are among 49 MPs standing for elections to Labour's shadow cabinet.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said it was essential both sides returned to negotiations and showed "willingness to give ground".
At a tense meeting between the two men, after Mr Hague's announcement, Lord Cranborne offered to resign from the shadow cabinet.
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