Before the 2010 general election he served as shadow housing minister. (politics.co.uk)
However shadow housing minister John Healey, who served as Gordon Brown's housing minister, distanced himself from McDonnell's rhetoric in an interview on the Radio 4 Today programme. (totalpolitics.com)
But if evidence were needed to prove that no such rule exists, it has just arrived in my inbox - the picture on the right of shadow housing minister, Grant Shapps. (conservativehome.blogs.com)